Who Could You Buy With 10% of Your Market Cap?
So there’s a strategy exercise I like to go through with startups I’ve invested in that are past $20m-$30m ARR or so: Who would you buy with 10% of your market cap? I.e., who would you give 10% of your company away to buy? It turns out this is an important threshold....
Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Theory Ventures’ Founder & GP, DoNotPay’s CEO, Guild Education’s SVP, Workshop Wednesdays and more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of April 16th, 2023.
The Pros and Cons Of Working in Venture Capital
Dear SaaStr: What are the pros and cons of working in the venture capital space, and why? There are times as a founder when, if you are venture-backed, you’ll look at your VCs and just see … them working less hard, for a lot more money. And yet taking up...
Do You Have a Weak Investor Syndicate? You Need to Know.
Now, when raising the next round in venture is so much harder than it was during the Crazy Times of late ’20-early ’22, an important but subtle issue is coming up for a lot of start-ups. The subtle issue is this: A Weak Investor Syndicate. What does this...
Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV (Pod 651 + Video)
Many startups crash and burn when they hit the Series A crunch — that do-or-die time where many seem to lose their footing even if they’ve been successful up to that point. If you’re standing at the precipice of Series A, it takes more than having a great idea or...
AWS: 2023 Growth May Be Just 6%
cons is closer to 16% growth — Jordan Novet (@jordannovet) April 13, 2023 So Amazon came out with its latest annual shareholder letter and it was even more cautious on AWS growth than I was expected. AWS said they weren’t going to push folks to sign...
Ask Every VP You Interview for A List of Everything They Want to Do. They’ll Only Do The Top 3-4.
"How to Figure Out if a VP Marketing Candidate — Is The Right One For You" @davegerhardt + @jasonlk pic.twitter.com/GQsS4PPMAZ — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 14, 2024 There are a couple of exercises you just have to do...
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5 Interesting Learnings from Asana at $600,000,000 in ARR
So one of my favorite categories to track and analyze in SaaS is project management. Why? Diversity of vendors and customers. There are so many leaders that have IPO’d (Asana, Monday, Atlassian, Smartsheet, etc) and so many that will (Notion, Clickup,...
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