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Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000

Tom Tunguz

In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. The only difference is today, we might replace the word Web with mobile. Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad.

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Digital Wallet vs. Credit Card: What Payment Methods Should You Accept?

FastSpring

But 2000 was a big year for PayPal. In March of 2000, they hit 1 million users. Now that more and more customers are completing online purchases on mobile devices, security has become a concern. This means that online customers are more comfortable completing purchases on their desktop than on their mobile devices.

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The 57% Drop in SaaS Valuations

Tom Tunguz

This isn’t like 2000. The go-to-market advantages of SaaS including faster sales cycles, beneficial cash cycles, online/mobile acquisition and bottoms up adoption are real, enduring , transformative changes. in 2000 to $71.8M Another type of founder leverage and option value become important.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. SaaS Investments: NQ Mobile, and others. Founded: 2000. Its goal is to provide funding to tech businesses in fields like semiconductors, mobile, internet, security, enterprise, and more.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” ” Nowadays, capital is so much more mobile. But again, capital is so much more mobile. And it worked great.

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Qualys now supports macOS in its cloud security tools

IT World

A pioneer in SaaS goes Mac Since it launched in 1999, Qualys has traditionally offered its services to PCs, mobile devices, and cloud-native applications. The company’s original 2000 product, QualysGuard, was distinguished as one of the first to market vulnerability management tools. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Year to Be Great

Andreessen Horowitz

Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey. And the best way to become Great is to refocus on generating fast growth.