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| Oct 7, 2026 | AI Startups Risk Becoming Victims of Pricing Power | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
Plenty of AI startups think they are running a software business, while their margins read like those of a reseller.
Picture a fitness app that is free to download. Premium costs 9.99 eur... |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Higgsfield Hits $1 Billion in Revenue as OpenAI Steps Aside | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
OpenAI buried its video experiment Sora, and an 18-month-old startup is now making a billion dollars a year with AI video. Higgsfield has just crossed $1 billion (around €850 million) in ... |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Palantir Earnings Preview: Beating Estimates Won’t Lift Stock Without Guidance Raise | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Aug 03 2026, 10:27 AM EDT
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Нужен ли человек ИИ‑агентам в продажах | Рынок корпоративного ИИ раскалывается: сужу по профильным конференциям и разговорам с руководителями. С одной стороны — лагерь прагматиков (часто из традиционного B2B‑сектора) саботирует тему ИИ‑агентов, аргументируя «и без того отлаженными... |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 'Godfather of SaaS' says he's only interested in investing in companies that are in the office 6 days a week | Jason Lemkin, known to some as the Godfather of SaaS, says people who want to work in tech face a stark choice in the current environment.
"You don't get to make 10 million for working 18 hours a week. You get a watch. You get an Omega... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | What smart people are saying about rising AI costs | CIOs are worried their AI budgets are starting to max out with nothing to show for the costs incurred.
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald gave voice to the growing concerns when he said in May that he's yet to see direct improvements in line with AI... |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Software Stocks Rally 21% in May: AI Agents Are Sorting Winners From Losers | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jun 01 2026, 17:49 PM EDT
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| Jun 1, 2026 | AI Agent Economics: Token Tax Locks Gross Margins 30 Points Below SaaS Baseline | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jun 01 2026, 17:51 PM EDT
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| May 16, 2026 | Subotiz Showcases AI-Native Revenue and Payment Platform at SaaStr AI Annual 2026 | A live session underscored the shift from fragmented tools to unified payments infrastructure
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Subotiz, a next-generation platform for subscriptions, payment and growth, showcased its AI-driven... |
| May 9, 2026 | Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth | Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measure... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Microsoft closes worst quarter on Wall Street since 2008 on AI concerns: ‘Redmond is in a pickle’ | Microsoft lost almost a quarter of its value in the first three months of the year, its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis.
Concerns about the company include the return on investment for artificial intelligence build-o... |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Why network effects, taste, and rails are the new software moats | In an era of AI coding agents, the true moats for companies now lie in four key areas: deterministic rails for critical systems, non-replicable network effects, genuine taste and strong branding, and core software infrastructure that is too... |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Consio AI Raises $3.3M in Funding | Consio AI, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of a voice platform that automates phone-based engagements for e-commerce brands, raised $3.3M in funding.
The round was led by RTP Global with participation from Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr Fund, Mu Ve... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | «AI»: три года шумихи, но что дальше? | Такую картинку сгенерил ChatGPT как заглавную к этой статье.
Написать эту статью-мнение меня сподвигла всё неутихающая волна хайпа вокруг ИИ (он же AI, он же Искусственный интеллект) и огромное число статей, видео и прочего контента на эту ... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Losing Customers Daily? These 5 Fixes Could Save Your Business Pricing has become one of the most critical levers for increasing sales, protecting margins and staying relevant. Data-driven, adaptable strategies can turn pricing into a key driver of sustainable growth. | Poor pricing always comes with a profit margin, whatever the category or product you have. In 2024, returns in ecommerce reached $743 billion, almost 15% of all retail sales in the US. A significant part of these returns would not have happ... |
| May 24, 2025 | RevenueCat: $50 Million Series C Closed For Expanding Global Infrastructure For Consumer Software Monetization | RevenueCat, a leading platform for managing consumer app monetization, announced it has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Volo Ventures, and S... |
| May 23, 2025 | RevenueCat Raises $50M in Series C Funding | RevenueCat, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for managing consumer app monetization, raised $50M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjace... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Theory Ventures released Annual SaaS Go-To-Market Survey | Theory Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage software investments across data, AI, and web3, released the results of its Annual SaaS Go-To-Market (GTM) Survey. Publicly presented by founder Tomasz Tunguz... |
| May 17, 2024 | Gorgias Revolutionizes Customer Experience with $29M Funding | Gorgias, the powerhouse in customer experience platforms, secures $29 million in Series C-2 funding to turbocharge its AI tools and empower ecommerce brands to automate 60% of customer support. Led by SaaStr and Alven, with a star-studded l... |
| May 15, 2024 | Gorgias Raises $29M in New Funding | Gorgias, the leading customer experience (CX) platform trusted by more than 15,000 ecommerce brands, announced $29 million in Series C-2 funding from existing investors. The new funding was led by SaaStr and Alven, with participation from H... |
| Mar 1, 2024 | 20 Best Online Startup Communities for Founders | As any seasoned entrepreneur knows all too well, the path to building a startup is often a lonely one. Entrepreneurs frequently grapple with feelings of isolation and burnout as they navigate the ups and downs of building a startup. That’s ... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | 'Be a disciplined company.' How Klaviyo broke the IPO dry spell, according to its CEO. | Klaviyo's founders, employees, and early customers celebrate the company's Wall Street debut on the New York Stock Exchange floor. NYSE
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| Sep 1, 2023 | Andrew Bialecki built Klaviyo into an email titan by breaking all the norms. Now he's taking it public as its largest shareholder. | Klaviyo cofounder and chief executive Andrew Bialecki. Klaviyo This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Aug 3, 2023 | Will we see any IPOs happening this year at all? | August is starting on a hopeful note.
As much as I care about technology, I am not saying this out of enthusiasm for generative AI or because we seem to be one step closer to room temperature superconductors becoming a reality.
If true, thi... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Customer Success Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. | In the late 2010s, customer success (CS) gained a lot of traction as an emerging category, and many companies created big CS teams made up of customer success managers (CSMs), renewals, support, and services. But as tougher macro climates i... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | 15 investors lift the lid on the biggest surprises of H1 2023 | The first half of 2023 hasn’t been kind to startups, but venture capital investors weren’t spared migraines either. Some VCs had a tough time of it, with their portfolio companies finding it hard to fundraise, while others dialed back their... |
| Jul 2, 2023 | 15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023 | As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year.
As expected, it appears a good mix of investors w... |
| Dec 26, 2022 | Стратегии роста Notion. Часть 2 | Примечание Wunder Fund: мы very early adopters Ноушена и большие его фанаты. Поэтому решили перевести нетипичную для нас статью о том, как он создавался, как рос, как развивалась его стратегия. В статье есть ряд интересных мыслей про развит... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Стратегии роста Notion. Часть 1 | Примечание Wunder Fund: мы very early adopters Ноушена и большие его фанаты. Поэтому решили перевести нетипичную для нас статью о том, как он создавался, как рос, как развивалась его стратегия. В статье есть ряд интересных мыслей про развит... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | When You Should Promote From Within | Tim Foot is CEO of Slingshot Group. |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings | Two weeks ago, longtime venture capitalist Chris Olsen, a general partner and cofounder of Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, settled into his seat for a portfolio company’s board meeting. It turned out to be a maddening exercise.
“Two of the... |
| Apr 28, 2022 | How Entrepreneurs are Learning to Thrive in the Age of Digital Transformation | The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted how entrepreneurs operate all around the world. Although the emergence of lockdown and social distancing measures have heavily disrupted many industries in unprecedented ways, the ever-growing volume of em... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Wrap #86: As Linktree blossoms, will startup valuations bottom? | Welcome to our Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Nov 16, 2021 | Join SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero’s You Mon Tsang in an Ask Me Anything Session November 18 | BIG RYG Virtual 2021 - Featured Session - An Offer You Can't Refuse: Ask Jason Anything Our goal with the BIG RYG Virtual conference is to move past problem adoration and discuss and deliver real answers to Customer Success challenges.
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| Sep 21, 2021 | GuideCX CEO Peter Ord to Speak at SaaStr Annual 2021 Conference | Having the opportunity to share what I’ve learned with an audience of such respected business professionals across the world is a huge milestone for GuideCX and our positive trajectory as we continue to advance to new heights.
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| Sep 14, 2021 | Что такое хороший Retention. Бенчмарки Retention для разных типов продуктов | Это адаптированный и дополненный перевод публикации Lenny Rachitsky (Ленни Рачицки) от создателя проекта GoPractice! и автора одноимённого Telegram-канала Олега Якубенкова.
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| Jul 21, 2021 | Every Startup Needs To Use These Four Critical Pieces Of Technology | Top view of multiracial young creative people in modern office. Group of young business people are ... [+] working together with laptop, tablet, smart phone, notebook. Successful hipster team in coworking. Freelancers.getty |
| Jul 6, 2021 | How Investing in Strategic Partnerships Can Help Grow Your Business | July 6, 2021 6 min read
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| Jul 6, 2021 | Early-Stage Marketing: A Five-Point Leadership Framework | Leela Gill is a thought leader and VP of Marketing for Intelligence Node, with 15+ years of experience in Retail, FinTech and HR Tech. |
| Jun 3, 2021 | For SaaS startups, differentiation is an iterative process | Jason VandeBoom Contributor
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Jason VandeBoom is founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, a customer experience automation (CXA) company.
Software as a service has been thriving as a sector for years, but it has gone into overdrive... |
| May 27, 2021 | These 14 influential ex-Amazon Web Services employees are making waves at startups and companies like Square, Twilio, and Red Hat | Alyssa Henry, the head of Square's seller unit, was the vice president of storage services at AWS and recently joined the board of Intel. Square This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | Private equity, a SPAC and an IPO walk into a bar | The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. Coming off a hot period in the final quarter of 2020, it was no surprise that tech upstarts pursued liquidity through a variety of mechanisms as the new year began.
There wer... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #41: Marketplace Mania, Money Making Tips & Mega Aussie Raises | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jan 7, 2021 | Hopin buys livestreaming startup StreamYard for $250M as it looks to expand its product lineup | This morning Hopin, a quickly growing startup that sells a technology platform for hosting digital events, announced that it has acquired StreamYard. The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Ecommerce customer support platform, Gorgias, raises $25m in Series B funding | Funds will be used to accelerate product development and increase its workforce
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With many stores still experiencing limited hours and possible shutdowns on the horizon again, having a strong ecommerce presence seems more imp... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | How to write a term sheet for a convertible note | Signing a term sheet for a convertible note is, more or less, a kind of a no-strings-attached agreement, between a startup and investors. This non-binding agreement takes place right before the final and official investment contract. And, s... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | How And When To Take A Discount On Your Valuation | Alex Gold is Co-Founder of Myia, a health intelligence platform employing novel biometric data to predict and prevent costly medical events. |
| Sep 11, 2020 | The VC Memo: Lessons For Entrepreneurs | Sign venture capital on a paper and glasses.getty |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Weekly Wrap #18: Zoom Kaboom, the Mental Health Boom, ANZ Startups to the Moon | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Aug 21, 2020 | How to raise your first VC fund | Charles Yu Contributor
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Charles is a principal at Bling Capital and manages his own angel investment vehicle. Previously, he was an investor at TI Platform Management and Manhattan Venture Partners. He has quarterbacked inve... |
| Aug 12, 2020 | Internacional: RevenueCat cierra una ronda de $15M a la que acuden Index Ventures, SaaStr, Oakhouse Partners, Adjacent, Buckley Ventures, YCombinator y 20VC | 12/08/2020
INTERNACIONAL: REVENUECAT CIERRA UNA RONDA DE $15 MILLONES A LA QUE ACUDEN INDEX VENTURES, SAASTR, OAKHOUSE PARTNERS, ADJACENT, BUCKLEY VENTURES, YCOMBINATOR Y 20VC.
RevenueCat ha cerrado una ronda de $15 millones liderada por ... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Teespring’s comeback story | Startup stories are often too reductive — an entrepreneur dreams up an idea, snags some co-founders, raises a bit of money and presto: success and riches.
It’s nearly never true. Even breakout successes like Slack that may feel straightforw... |
| May 6, 2020 | Treasury Prime has announced a $9 million funding round for its banking APIs | Funding will go towards growing the startup's team
Even with the coronavirus wreaking havoc on various industries and employment, many banks continue to thrive.
To go alongside that news, Treasury Prime, a startup in the banking industry, h... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | SaaStr postpones annual conference as county officials discourage large gatherings | SaaStr, the venture firm that puts on the largest conference for SaaS companies, postponed its SaaStr Annual 2020 conference today amid concerns from local and national officials around large gatherings in light of the COVID-19 virus. The e... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Stockpile Cash and Slash Costs: Top VCs Warn Coronavirus is a 'Black Swan' Event | The most prominent venture capitalist in Los Angeles is sounding the alarm bells over coronavirus, warning it is likely to be a "black swan" event.
"If this is a black swan, you must shore up cash now," said Mark Suster,... |
| Mar 3, 2020 | Shasta Ventures debuts ‘Ignite,’ a collection of help and services to drive its startups to $10M ARR | Shasta Ventures, a venture capital firm that has raised more than a half-dozen funds in its life, announced a new program this morning designed to help its portfolio companies scale to $10 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR) from $1 m... |
| Feb 25, 2020 | New York’s BounceX reaches $100M ARR, rebrands | Welcome to the $100 million ARR club, BounceX.
This morning (evening, timezone depending), BounceX, a New York-based marketing technology startup, announced that it has reached the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold, addi... |
| Feb 4, 2020 | Главные венчурные (и не только) итоги 2019 года | 2019 год принёс немало неожиданностей. Глобальный финансовый кризис так и не наступил. И теперь уже почти половина управляющих активами верит, что до конца 2020 года нас ожидает рецессия.
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| Sep 28, 2019 | How to pay salespeople at an early-stage tech company | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 28, 2019 | How to pay salespeople at an early-stage tech company | Recently, my team needed to transition from a “growth team” (a scrappy mix of marketing and sales with fixed salaries) to a dedicated sales team with an incentive structure. While I didn’t have 20 years of tech-sales experience or a playboo... |
| Jul 28, 2019 | 12 Key Issues For SaaS Startups Seeking Financing | By Mitch Zuklie and Richard D. Harroch |
| Jun 21, 2019 | 5 Women Tech Leaders Who Will Own the 2020s | Sheryl Sandberg, Ginni Rommetty, and Susan Wojcicki — who help lead Facebook, IBM, and YouTube, respectively — are names every American should know. The reality? Not even one in 25 does.
When LivePerson asked American adults to name a famou... |
| May 29, 2019 | How To Navigate The Journey To Series A: Lessons From Investors And Their Portfolios | Compass Poprotskiy Alexey ShutterStock |
| Apr 25, 2019 | A quick look at how Series A and seed rounds have ballooned in recent years, fueled by top investors | Wing, an eight-year-old, Silicon Valley venture firm co-founded by veteran VCs Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg, produces interesting research about its own industry every now and then, based on smaller data sets than firms like PitchBook or CB... |
| Dec 31, 2018 | Closing Out The Year | 18 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The Crunchbase News team is almost done publishing its yearly run of predictions, and we’re days away from digging into our fourth-quarter review featuring dozens of charts and thousands and thousan... |
| Dec 27, 2018 | Why your startup shouldn’t rush to $1 million in revenue | Martina Lauchengco Contributor
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Martina spent over 20 years as a marketing and product executive building and crafting strategies for market-defining software like Microsoft Office and Netscape Navigator. As an operating par... |
| Dec 7, 2018 | Lyft’s going public, Uber’s eyeing Bird, Utah’s tech scene and trade tensions | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week we had Connie Loizos in the studio along with Kate Clark, myself and a special guest. The special gu... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Subscription management startup RevenueCat raises $1.5M | RevenueCat, a startup that helps developers manage their in-app subscriptions, has raised $1.5 million in new funding.
The company was part of the most recent batch at Y Combinator, and CEO Jacob Eiting said growth has been “a rocket ship” ... |
| Jun 17, 2018 | Six Tactics for Fast Churn Reduction | Good things come to those who wait. Few companies have crazy growth and overnight success of tech darlings like Dropbox. For most, customer growth is a slow & steady process.
Reducing customer churn often requires similar kind of patie... |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Zuora’s IPO is another step in golden age of enterprise SaaS | Zuora’s founder and CEO Tien Tzuo had a vision of a subscription economy long before most people ever considered the notion. He knew that for companies to succeed with subscriptions, they needed a bookkeeping system that understood how they... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Equity live from SaaStr: The market loses its mind, bitcoin tanks, and when will Slack go public | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week was a treat. Not only did venture capitalist Annie Lamont join our own Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, an... |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Email enhancement service, Mixmax, raises $10.35 million in funding round | The money will go towards expanding the team, as well as growing the platform
It's pretty safe to say that if you're reading this article that email is a part of your daily life. We all use it; sometimes to keep up with family, sometimes to... |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Equity podcast: Netflix soars, Twitter loses a big bird, Lyft isn’t woke and more ICOs | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week we once again had the full crew on set: Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself. And even better, we w... |
| Dec 18, 2017 | How Harpoon Medical’s exit can produce returns for Baltimore | A startup’s exit can produce many ripple effects that help a tech community.
Right after it was announced, the acquisition of Harpoon Medical by Edwards Lifesciences showed how such a deal can create visibility.
The deal brings a big compan... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | Never Run Out of Content: More than 70 Places to Curate Great Content | December 7, 2017 11 min read This story originally appeared on Buffer
Curating top content from around the web is a great strategy to increase your social media reach. For example, we grew our Facebook reach tremendously with high-quality c... |
| Nov 6, 2017 | For SaaS Businesses, $3 Billion Might Be the New Marker of a Unicorn | The most recent collection of public companies in or orbiting the SaaS industry to offer an IPO are all worth $3 billion or close to that number. The coveted $1 billion valuation and the companies who earn it, termed “unicorns,” might be ge... |
| Sep 2, 2017 | How to negotiate a partner role at a VC firm | It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more difficult to join as a partner. I recently went through the process myself in joining HOF Capital, and I thought it would be helpful to share some of ... |
| Aug 7, 2017 | Get ready to see more sector-specific venture firms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Aug 7, 2017 | Get ready to see more sector-specific venture firms | We have witnessed a marked rise in the amount of venture investment dollars over the last decade. Capital has become near-ubiquitous, it may seem.
These capital inflows have had a number of effects, including inflating round pricing and inc... |
| Aug 3, 2017 | Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins | Mamoon Hamid, a longtime partner at U.S. Venture Partners who went on to co-found Social Capital with Chamath Palihapitiya in 2011, is moving on to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
First reported by Axios and confirmed by Social Capita... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | 11 chatbots created at Y Combinator’s online startup school | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Recently Sam Altman from Y Combinator announced a... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Equity podcast: The return of IPOs and Tesla’s billion-dollar bet | One down, many more to go! The first episode of TechCrunch’s latest podcast, Equity, our venture capital-focused podcast is out.
This week, TechCrunch’s Matthew Lynley, CrunchBase editor-in-chief Alex Wilhelm and I sat down with investor an... |
| Mar 6, 2017 | YC’s Online Class (Sign up at StartupSchool.org) | We’re excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org for the 10-week massively open online course (MOOC), starting today. We want to teach everyone how to start ... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | How many jobs will you create in Trump country? | A note to tech founders about three lessons I learned the hard way
Fellow Founders and CEOs,
We survived the Presidential election, so now the real work begins.
How will we, the primary beneficiaries of the borderless global economy, help t... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | Jason Lemkin just raised a $70 million fund; here’s how he did it | Two-time entrepreneur Jason Lemkin just closed a debut venture fund with $70 million called SaaStr Fund. It’s an impressive feat and the latest in a string of interesting opportunities that Lemkin has created for himself since selling his m... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Startups Selling To Other Startups: A House Of Cards? | Bastiaan Janmaat Contributor
Bastiaan Janmaat is co-founder and CEO of DataFox.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” the saying goes. Well, if you’re running a startup that sells to other startups, you might be putting all your eggs in ... |
| Feb 9, 2016 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson raises $350M for its 12th fund | The 30-year-old firm has backed SpaceX, Box, Twilio, Baidu, Redfin, to name a few
(Updated with comment from Josh Stein of DFJ)
Early stage venture fund Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) has raised a new $350 million fund, its 12th,called DFJ V... |
| Feb 9, 2016 | Docmosis Documenting Wins | Docmosis is a local Perth SaaS company that generates documentation from code automatically. They’re off to the SaaStr event in SF to demonstrate their wares, and sent us this update on their progress.
For the fourth straight year, Docmosis... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Somewhere over the brainbow: the unicorn window is closing | People used to worry about the “IPO window” closing before they could get their company significantly far along to exit. Now, with the rise of massive private rounds from late-stage private equity and crossover investors, startup founders a... |
| Sep 27, 2015 | What animals are micro VCs hunting? | Paul Graham wants to farm black swans. Dave McClure likes ugly ducklings, little ponies, and centaurs. Almost all large VC funds are looking for unicorns, while some people argue that investors should hunt dragons, and others talk about dec... |
| Sep 25, 2015 | Startup Scene News September 2015 | A collection of this month’s startup scene news.
The This Week in Startups Australia Podcast did a thing on Perth:
StartupWA launched this week, the “peak body” designed to raise the startup community’s profile with government. They’ve got ... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | Two Lies And A Truth About “The Bubble” | Maxwell Wessel Contributor
Maxwell Wessel is a VC at Sapphire Ventures.
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| Aug 6, 2015 | How Venture Capital Incentives Promote Zombie Companies | Sathvik Tantry Contributor
Sathvik Tantry is the co-founder of FormSwift, a SaaS platform helping organizations go paperless.
It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding.
We tend to assume that a company... |
| Aug 4, 2015 | Setting Sales Quotas Is Like Running A 10K Race | Jeff Thermond Contributor
Jeff Thermond is a venture partner at XSeed Capital.
If you’ve ever run a 10K road race, you know that race organizers spend a lot of effort to have volunteers at every milepost telling runners what their time is. ... |
| Jul 3, 2015 | Steve and Nicole – founders of Konveen | website twitter facebook LinkedIn
Founded by husband and wife team, Steven and Nicole Hambleton, from Cairns in QLD, Konveen is a tech startup that’s committed to transformational change in enterprise.
Collaboration is a huge industry, with... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | Do Smaller Funds Perform Better? | In a report recently released from Mattermark, it is indicated that investment in startups from 2014 to probable year-end 2015 will eclipse all prior years, except for 2000. Now, ‘Unicorns’ are all the rage, leading many VC firms to raise b... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | How Ever-Higher Valuations Lead Unicorns Into A Cycle Of Private Capital Dependency | Mackey Craven Contributor
Mackey Craven is a partner at OpenView Venture Partners
Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is the only way for VCs to survive. This phenomenon makes for exce... |
| May 13, 2015 | Billion-dollar startups everywhere — but no billion-dollar entrepreneurs (yet) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the weekend Heidi Roizen wrote a post that w... |
| May 13, 2015 | Billion-dollar startups everywhere — but no billion-dollar entrepreneurs (yet) | Over the weekend Heidi Roizen wrote a post that was extensively shared across the tech industry: “How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch — and Walk Away with Nothing.” Go read it right now if you haven’t already, it’s well worth your time; I c... |
