Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
These are the Best of Times for venture capital. 500+ new seed funds, and 1000+ unicorns and decacorns. And as part of this, more and more big corporations are adding…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
Here are 9 simple tips that are easy to implement — and almost 100% guaranteed to impact your odds of raising seed or Series A funding: If your existing investors…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Podcasts, Videos
Featuring 5 prominent Founders – from Boast, Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly, and SaaStr – that have achieved scale, at “Founder Confidential” you will hear about the highs and lows of fundraising, working with a VC board, and real talk about what it really is like to be a true Founder.
Blog Posts, Company Culture, Fundraising, Podcasts, Videos
Actionable insights include a) why you should disregard conventional advice about VC associates, b) building cultures that scale, c) how to run an effective fundraising process, and d) habits of high-performing CEOs.
Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: What does a lead investor do? A lead investor: Is expected to lead any bridge round. This is super important. If the company does OK but Not Great, the…
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2002-2019: Founders jealous of VCs, with their easy life, diversified 2020-2021: VCs jealous of Decacorn founders that own so much more 2022-2023: Why do we need VCs at all? —…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth, Metrics, Scale
SaaStr’s analysis of the KBCM SaaS Survey highlights CAC and churn as key underlying drivers of “Rule of 40” and capital efficiency. However, high revenue multiples and abundant VC funding have potentially changed whether the “Rule of 40” is worth optimizing for.
Blog Posts, Fundraising
VC funds need about $2B in “exits” for each $50m they raise Why? True average ownership of 10% fully-diluted x $2B = $200m. That’s 4x “gross” $50m or just about…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Fundraising, Growth, Hiring, Product
A little while back on LinkedIn and Twitter we put together a list of things that later, once you are successful, even very successful, you’ll regret. It got a lot…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
A few years back, it seemed like there were hundreds of articles on the pros and cons of raising relatively modest amounts of capital using traditional equity vs. SAFEs and…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth
After $10m ARR, every VC in SaaS comes to the same conclusion So interesting that they don't even at $4m-$5m ARR though — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) September 24,…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
A small part of SaaStr has been learnings from and tracking some of my investments. Enough time has gone by that we can step back and learn from some of…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
Q: What actually happens in a VC pitch meeting to all the partners? Let me add one key insight to “Full Partnership” / Monday style pitches. The ones where everyone…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: How do VCs pick which seed investments to make? There is one common factor, that founders know, but often lose track of in their pitch: every VC, at any…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
One thing that constantly surprises me is that maybe 80% of venture-backed founders I know don’t know where they stand with their investors. The bottom line is every professional VC…
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