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- Does a founder have to mandatorily disclose their personal investment/equity in other startup that they formed and also about their mentor role there?
- How bad is the current venture capital environment (December 2015)?
- Does Dropbox regret its Mailbox acquisition?
- Why don’t VCs follow Warren Buffett’s 20 slot rule?
- Two Great Ways to Get the *New* SaaStr + Predictable Revenue Book “From Impossible to Inevitable”
- Why do entrepreneurs take venture capital when VCs are flippers not investors?
- Does anyone enjoy startup fundraising?
- How important is it that the founders/CEO have over 51% equity?
- What would venture capitalists do when they don’t have to source or execute deals?
- How does a tech startup survive after an IPO?
- If my startup is growing quickly, do I need a co-founder?
- How do venture capitalists evaluate startups?
- Please Let Us Know What VCs You Want in the SaaStr Annual Dunk Tank. And Party With Salesforce & The Beastie Boy’s Mix Master Mike.
- Why didn’t Dropbox try to sell Mailbox?
- Why would it be a failure if a corporate venture fund had its invested company purchased by a competitor?
- What do investors look for in a startup CEO?
- How do venture funds assess that proof of concept phase is over and the company now needs funding to grow?
- Why should anyone join Dropbox at this time? (10/2015)
- How will Dropbox’s valuation be affected by the decision to drop Carousel and Mailbox?
- Jason Green (Emergence Capital): Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded, pt 1 (video + transcript)
- Is it better to (1) build a product then find a market for the product or (2) Find an underserved market and design a product tailored to the customers’ needs?
- Is it too late to start a tech business at 34?
- Can you make your TAM larger by expanding into new verticals (B2B SaaS)?
- SaaStr Video AMA and Podcast: “Really Aligning Sales and Marketing” with David Cummings and Craig Rosenberg
- Is VentureBeat right that “number of exits” are a good indicator that unicorns are in trouble?
- If a VC gives you an opportunity to present your startup and then sets a subsequent meeting to present to their entire investor team how would you best leverage this?
- How to Grow 20% Month-over-Month, from Top SaaS VCs @jasonegreen @ttunguz and @StaceyCurry
- The Second Timers: Rick Nucci of Guru and Boomi: “Always Be In Front of Customers”
- SaaStr AMA: Building Your First SDR Team with Brendon Cassidy (EchoSign/LinkedIn) and Kyle Porter (SalesLoft)
- As a VC and investor, what’s the wisest first question I should ask an entrepreneur before I invest in their company?
- I want to ask an angel investor I know for a $25k convertible note w/ 75% discount and 1.5m cap. Are these relatively attractive terms or should I modify that to make it more appealing?
- The Problem With Junior Marketing Hires (And What a True VP Costs)
- SaaStr on First “Zero to Won” Podcast with RainforestQA and Heavybit
- Don’t Have an “Exit Strategy,” but Do Have a “Competitive and Cooperative Landscape” Slide.
- SaaStr on This Week in Start-Ups: “The Godfather of SaaS”
- I am 13 and aspire to be a venture capitalist. Could somebody give me advice on the best route to take to become one?
- Is the Square (SQ) IPO offering price a huge disappointment?
- Was studying in Harvard university necessary to achieve entrepreneur success. (e.g. Jason M. Lemkin)?
- Is it easier to go from an operational role to VC or from VC into an operational role?
- Get In Early (GIE) #005: Bluecore
- SaaStr Grows 10x in 24 Months to 2.5 Million Views a Month: What We’ve Learned
- Just how deep is the decline in venture investment in the fourth quarter of 2015?
- Don’t Worry Too Much If All Your Customers are in “Tech”
- Why is Pivotal Labs credited with playing such an important role in the development culture of Silicon Valley’s biggest brands?
- 84 Days Until SaaStr Annual – Here’s What to Expect
- If you had the chance to invest alongside top VCs like Accel and Sequoia, would you give it a second thought?
- Pricing a monthly SaaS plan: what sounds better? $98/mo or $89/mo?
- Why do so many VC lack actual technical skills?
- Is a startup that fails to raise additional capital after its Series A considered a failure?
- What’s the difference between a CEO and president of a startup corporation?
- (Almost) 10x in 24 Months
- Is Box undervalued right now?
- The Second Timers: Nick Mehta (Gainsight), Mark Organ (Influitive) Kris Duggan (Betterworks)
- As a 40 year old am I too old to found another software startup? I’ve founded 4 with varying success.
- How do most successful startups in Silicon Valley raise money?
- Will Twitter ever be acquired?
- Are any VCs returning money to investors due to lack of great investment opportunities?
- Equity versus Convertible Notes: What’s the difference between 1M at a 10M cap (note) versus 1M at a 10M priced round?
- After finding out my competitors pricing was 300% higher up front, should I increase the cost so I don’t seem “cheap” even though our monthly saas costs will make up for it?
- What does it mean for the tech sector that Square’s IPO is less than its valuation at the last round of financing?
- Why are founders and startup employees expected to take minimal salary while VC partners rake in $500K-$1M per year plus carry?
- I’ll be Speaking at Sales Stack on Tuesday. Come Join Me There With an A+ Line-Up.
- How is Handy worth $500 mm per its most recent funding round? Seems w massive jump from last valuation of 168m?
- Is $300m ARR the New $100m?
- How does an entrepreneur in residence measure their success?
- What does it mean that “Late-stage private valuations” aren’t really equity, but more like debt?
- The New SaaStr Video AMAs … And Podcasts!
- Can B2B startups attract senior talent (VP, COO,…) outside of the Bay Area?
- How much “management control” can you give an investor who wants to invest in your startup? What limits can co-founders put in place to prevent interferences?
- Why do top decile VC funds have any LP’s at all?
- Does Jason Lemkin have a vested interest in Quora?
- How much equity for a guy behind secret sauce?
- Is “founder bait and switch” a real issue?
- How different is it to directly report to the CEO than any other boss?
- Official Sweepstakes / Giveaway Rules
- Leyla Seka (Salesforce): How to *Really* Partner with the Big Guys (Video + Transcript)
- Is it wise to not take an investor’s money if you have a bad feeling about it even though on paper he might be the perfect investor for your start-up?
- What’s the profit for investors to invest on Quora?
- VC’s vs Entrepreneurs, which cohort tend to earn more?
- What are the biggest pain points in the Venture Capital industry?
- The SaaStr Pre-Holiday Soirée: 600+ SaaS Founders & CEOs. And You.
- What do I need to watch out for when setting up funding from a VC?
- When will Uber launch its IPO?
- What are the best ages to launch a startup?
- When selling an Enterprise SaaS product where a significant part of the ROI is based on time savings, is it a waste of time to speak with people who aren’t high enough in the org to own a P&L?
- What does Quip intend to do with the $30M it raised in 2015?
- What do people think about Jet.com? Is it a multi-million dollar blunder or the next Amazon?
- How and why did Theranos recruit such an unbelievable board?
- How intrusive is too intrusive when it comes to contacting VCs, angels or accelerator partners?
- I am fronting the startups fees for my cofounder. Will this be problematic with VCs and Angels down the road, or is it common?
- How much easier is raising a series A with $30,000 monthly revenue compared to having $0 revenue?
- What skill sets are essential in becoming an Associate & or General Partner at a VC firm?
- What is Dropbox’s response to BlackRock lowering their valuation by 24%?
- It’s Time For You To Make Security a Core Feature — Not a Tax
- How is an investment decision made at a VC fund? Do all partners vote?
- Did investors who invested in Theranos do poor due diligence?
- “Get In Early” (GIE) #004: Iron.io
- Square’s S-1 shows that Starbucks transactions cost the company $77.1M, but Square only charged Starbucks $62.9M. How was this ever a good idea?
- Can you tell me of any start-up companies in which the CEO was over 60 yrs old and became a multi-millionaire?
- What are the most effective ways for early stage enterprise SaaS startups to sell to large organizations with little to no track record?
- Why is every tech company raising millions of dollars? Doesn’t anyone bootstrap to exit anymore?
- What should we learn from problems Theranos is having?
- What do David S. Rose and other prominent angel investors think about the $400M investment via AngelList by CSC Upshot?
- If Elon Musk can manage 3 companies why is Jack Dorsey having such a hard time from media when it comes to direct both Twitter and Square?
- SaaStr Video AMA – “Lunch with … Christoph Janz of PointNine Capital. And Coming to America.”
- How do I explain SAFE agreements to a potential investor who has never invested in startups?
- Is a 40% Month on Month (MoM) growth for a SaaS business considered an optimistic forecast?
- Is it responsible to make an investment decision based on founding team racial composition?
- SaaStr Videos from Dreamforce: Building a Killer Sales Team + Funding, Sales & Growth
- How do I make the most of SaaStr Annual as a foreigner?
- Can an SaaS business be established with a low budget or self funding?
- How likely is it that Twitter will succeed with Jack Dorsey at the helm of the company?
- Is venture capital profitable besides for the top tier VC firms?
- Mamoon Hamid of Social+Capital: Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded (Video + transcript)
- How can you tell if a VC has your best interest at heart?
- How is it practical for Jack Dorsey to indefinitely act as CEO of two companies?
- Why did you become a VC?
- Why ‘Perfect’ Is the Enemy of Diversity
- When exactly do VCs see their first carry check?
- How is IPOing and taking a company public now different than in 2000?
- What does a venture capital firm’s operational budget look like?
- In Enterprise SaaS sales, once you send over the formal proposal, what can you do to help increase the chance the deal closes?
- The results are in! The winners of our “Show Us Your SaaS” international video competition
- Do rich entrepreneurs with $40 MM in their bank accounts raise $12 MM from investors for their company or do they just use their own money?
- In a small but fast growing SaaS company, should sales performance be measured on Book of Business, or new ACV booked?
- I’ve been proposed to be the CEO of a 1 year old startup with a team of 20 people. What are the organizational/team challenges I’ll be facing?
- How do VCs think about a founder who lost half the invested capital for his investors in his last startup?
- Did the HelloWallet model work? If not why not?
- Do VCs often make for good gossipmongers?
- If the average venture fund loses money in aggregate, then why do so many money-losing VCs still exist?
- What happens when an angel investor’s convertible note in a tech startup is converted into equity?
- How can you identify weaknesses of Venture Capital organizations? Where do they come from?
- Is venture capital a money-losing venture in aggregate? Why?
- How did Quirky manage to convince so many top tier investors through multiple rounds of financing while they were bleeding so much cash?
- How many licences will Apptus need to sell to cover their Dreamforce15 marketing spend?
- Laugh, Vote, Change Lives
- What is the average OTE for a SaaS salesperson in Silicon Valley?
- How many LPs does a VC typically have?
- How do you best determine SaaS pricing for various market verticals?
- Why is Google not buying Twitter?
- What is a liquidation preference?
- Is there a secondary market for VC funds where I can buy LP’s stakes in existing VC funds?
- SaaStr At Dreamforce — Secret Word, Free SaaStr Annual Passes + 2 Sessions + Bowling
- Why is it so hard for Dave McClure to raise money for 500 Startups?
- What is VC and why is it not for the faint-hearted?
- The Pros and Cons of Taking an Inside VC Led-Round
- How did Slack Technologies manage to raise so much capital?
- New on SaaStr.com: 5x the Content, Effective Today! (from Quora and more)
- What’s Your Collections KPI?
- Why did you want to become a VC after being an entrepreneur?
- What qualities do venture capital firms look for in a startup?
- What % of Silicon Valley startups that have raised $10 million from VC have boards that are firmly controlled by the founders/early employees?
- We have a startup but it’s going to be impossible to get started without $50 million. Where do I start?
- What 3 pearls of wisdom would you give a 1st time CEO of a small technology startup?
- Turnover is Normal Part of Hypergrowth
- Why are acquisitions more common than IPOs?
- Andy Wilson, CEO of Logikcull: “10 Things We’ve Learned From Exhibiting at Dozens of Trade Shows”
- What does M&A integration best practice look like?
- Should I move to San Francisco or Palo Alto?
- How do investors in Magic feel about Facebook’s entry into the space with M?
- The Latest SaaStr Answers From Quora
- Can you make over $1 million a year only by being an entrepreneur or a C-Suite executive?
- What makes Stewart Butterfield of Slack such a great founder?
- Can you sell something that people don’t need?
- Zenefits: How We Hyperscaled Inside Sales
- How do you get invited to become a junior partner at a venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park?
- What is a reasonable percentage of a startup if it was my idea and I’m paying for everything?
- Does a SaaS CEO need a mentor when (s)he can follow Jason Lemkin on Quora?
- In B2B SaaS, Your Team May Not Scale With You
- Do VCs work with startups that need less than 500K?
- What are very early stakeholders’ expectations regarding dilution by an expansion of the founding team?
- Hey International Startups, Get Ready to Win Free Tickets to the SaaStr Annual
- How does Jason Lemkin feel about Docusign’s recent Series F for 233M?
- “Get In Early” (GIE) #002: Entelo
- What should startups take away from the highly visible shutdowns of companies like Homejoy and Zirtual?
- What are some of the pitfalls that go along with selling your product overseas?
- Is it fair to say that both the CEO and existing investors in Zirtual failed to manage the company’s financials and fundraising work?
- Will field reps will be less needed in the future of SaaS sales?
- Who is Jason M. Lemkin?
- What are the pros and cons of going to college?
- Most tech companies are only interested in 20 somethings to employ. What now for 40 somethings?
- Why are companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, etc. still called startups?
- What is the best way to join a micro VC firm as a partner?
- Coming to the U.S.: Learnings at ~$10m ARR From Showpad and Conversocial
- How does a venture capital firm work?
- What are some of the oddest employee perks in Silicon Valley?
- Will using a Windows PC as opposed to a Mac in a pitch in Silicon Valley disadvantage me?
- What should I do if I want to be a partner at a venture capital fund in 7 years?
- How do VCs monitor their investments financial performance? And how often?
- Why are Australian venture firms so low risk?
- Is 6 weeks reasonable for due diligence in a tech acquisition?
- How many hours/week do you work as a director, VP, CXO, or CEO?
- Why do software engineers make so much?
- What is the best approach to associate with great people in our life?
- Which is most secure cloud software?
- How many of the world’s top 100 billionaires really invented something new like Bill Gates did with Microsoft?
- 5 Great Resources to Help Your Customer Success Team Fight Churn
- What is the best response to “not making investment in that space at this time” from a VC firm?
- For a Professional Angel A “Great” Investment Is One That Returns At Least Seven Figures
- What Bay Area SaaS companies are currently the best places to make money and grow your career in sales?
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