Mark MacLeod (Real Ventures) is about to start a blog series on SaaS Math. The topics he’s going to write about follow: Why investors, customers and vendors love SaaS SaaS Metrics 101: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referrals, Revenues What and how to measure Per User Economics broken down Measuring tools: custom vs. off the shelf How […]
Question: What is your take on entrepreneurs who have young children or otherwise active family lives? Is this a factor in funding decisions? I try to live with a family-first mentality but find it hard to compete with young unattached entrepreneurs who can put startup-first. My answer is simple – this shouldn’t be a factor […]
Bryce Roberts (OATV) totally nails it in his post titled You Can Never Size a Market in Excel. The punch line is: “In every single case that I’ve seen this question (“how big can it get”) persist over more than 2 meetings, it has NEVER been resolved. NEVER.” There’s plenty of great stuff in the post […]
Question: We are looking early stage funding for our startup and came across some people claiming to be “VC Broker”. Is there such a concept in the investing world? It’s highly unlikely that they are legit. I’ve never heard the specific term “VC broker” before and generally don’t think much of people who represent to early […]
It’s Monday and that means – yup – that Fred Wilson (USV) once again claims the VC Post of the Day due to his excellent MBA Mondays series titled Pricing A Follow-On Venture Investment. In it, Fred walks through an example, with real numbers, of how USV thinks about valuing an inside-led round for a […]
Rand Fishkin, the CEO & co-founder of SEOmoz, has an long, thorough, and incredibly detailed blog post up about The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised. Rand does an awesome job of providing extensive details while maintaining confidentiality of the participants. The story covers the full lifecycle of the VC fundraising process, beginning with Rand and his […]
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