SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

When the cloud first began to take shape, the market couldn’t help but be incredibly fragmented: open-source code distributed itself across the online ecosystem, and tons of venture capital funding poured into a new wave of startups. .

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. Mobile app distribution. Whether it’s Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, Google search engine marketing and retargeting, email marketing, or outbound calling, all of these channels bear some hallmarks of saturation. These three points are all true.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Chinese startups raise nearly half of all venture capital dollars and nearly 100 are valued at $1B. More of it measures the physical world because the Chinese internet blossomed first on mobile in a wave called O2O, online to offline. One started with PCs and laptops, the other with mobile phones.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

Yes, you can get to $100m in revenues without $100m in venture capital. #6. “Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High Throughput Critical API with RevenueCat’s CTO” RevenueCat is breaking out as the leader in managing mobile subscriptions, but the team is still tiny relatively speaking. Watch this one. #9.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. 30% of all mobile apps with a paid subscription use RevenueCat to manage it. That’s a pretty good slice of the mobile ecosystem. Why is that interesting? Because they have over 10,000 B2B2C apps.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch. We started the business in 2007.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Loyalty Prime: Anja Zschoernig | Head of Marketing | anja.zschoernig@loyaltyprime.com About Hi inov Founded in 2012 by Pierre-Henri Dentressangle (Chairman) and Valérie Gombart (CEO), Hi inov SAS is managing €170 million of capital from corporates and entrepreneurs. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2024

Jason’s earliest investment had strong product market fit, but it took them four years to come out with their mobile app. If you can build great software 50% faster than the competition in two years, that compounds. The fastest absolutely wins. They eventually got to $100M in revenue but lost it because they were too slow.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. The promise of mobile remains only somewhat fulfilled. Perhaps there a substantial delay between when the business is founded and when it appears in Crunchbase. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 3, 2014

4) Prioritize "mobile" Mobile is eating the world. More about this in my recent post about OKRs.

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Scale SaaS Sales Hiring Technical Review 155

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 7, 2014

Today, I’m probably about the same speed as I was in my QWERTY days, but typing speed isn’t a competitive advantage in venture capital, so I think it’s fine. About a year later, I changed the layout on my mobile phone to Dvorak too, purely for consistency. But now Qwerty seems foreign.

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Venture Capital Mobile Software 100

Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2015

Enabled by web and mobile app distribution, the bottoms up software business acquires individual users, small teams and eventually departments. First, not all these companies raised money because they needed it, so venture capital raised isn’t a pure proxy for cash burn.

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Startup Venture Capital Mobile Acquisition 113

Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time. Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Even Silicon Valley has jumped in on the hype, valuing the social media app at $100 million and receiving a reported $12 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Created in May 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, the app has caught the attention of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and celebrities.

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Social Media Venture Capital Trends Branding 138

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. He will be the chairperson at SaaStock LatAm.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

from Cheetah Mobile, and others. from CKD Venture Capital Corporation, and others. It relies on visual data to give better and more intuitive insights to retailers. Founders : Kane Yau. Founded : 2017. Based in: Shenzhen, China. Funding to Date : $7.4M SmartHR helps Japan change the way it does HR, bringing it online.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. ” And the catalyst here is like: We think mobile is going to take off.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Tiny Capital. Tiny Capital is a different breed in the micro acquisition space. Unlike some of the other tools mentioned above, it’s a traditional venture capital firm, with a twist.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And you can design those emails using their intuitive drag and drop designer, or start from one of their 25+ pre-made mobile-responsive design templates. Acoustic Campaign is their marketing automation tool, encompassing mobile apps, push notifications, SMS, group chats, social media, ads, email, print campaigns, and more.

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Software Review Scale Software Marketing 145

The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

With its venture capital and shareholding investments, which it provides in the form of equity capital and mezzanine financing, it enables SMEs to implement innovation and growth projects, manage corporate succession and optimise their capital structure. link] BayBG Contact: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de.

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Venture Capital Automotive SaaS Finance 66

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Loyalty Prime: Anja Zschoernig | Head of Marketing | anja.zschoernig@loyaltyprime.com About Hi inov Founded in 2012 by Pierre-Henri Dentressangle (Chairman) and Valérie Gombart (CEO), Hi inov SAS is managing €170 million of capital from corporates and entrepreneurs. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Neil Patel

APRIL 6, 2021

Google leads the world in mobile and digital ad revenue. For example, let’s say you need an investment from a venture capital firm to start a new business. The specialty exams include search, display, mobile, video, and shopping ads. Does Google AdWords Certification Really Matter? In 2017, they generated $73.8

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Advertising Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Branding 112

User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

According to venture capital firm Sequoia , the standard DAU/MAU ratio is 10-20%, with only a handful of companies having over 50%. The DAU, WAU, and MAU metrics will enable you to better understand active users for your SaaS or mobile apps. To calculate DAU, divide your monthly active users by the number of days in the month.

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Metrics Venture Capital Benchmarks Engagement 96

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

.” Brian Rothenberg, who’s currently a Partner at the early-stage venture capital firm Defy, joined Blake for this episode and agreed with the basketball analogy. “Often in marketing teams, the only levers might be email or maybe notifications from mobile, but it’s so much more expansive than that.

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Venture Capital Mobile B2B Retention 53

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There were like five or six operating systems for mobile phones. I mean, big venture capital firms like Sequoia and Floodgate, General Catalyst, all these guys have caught onto this and will actually tell their portfolio companies to think this way or to get the book or to talk to us.

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Technical Review Sales Hiring Innovation Systems Review 205

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Back in, this is a long time ago, but when I joined Box one of the things that we were thinking about is do we give a free version of Box to every mobile device in the Android ecosystem. It is not an enterprise integration. That was a big decision.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 113

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. App downloads (if they have a mobile app). Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Intent surges.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 107

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Now, the one thing we don’t have that’s new is … Some of the waves have been because there have been new platform shifts, because of mobile or because of cloud or because of security or because of a bunch of other stuff. And I do think that’s a really valuable skill.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

You probably know less is more when it comes to ads and that most people are consuming content through their mobile device. I'd like to reach people who are interested in venture capitalism and entrepreneurship -- people who might be familiar with the basic concepts but want to watch something fresh, with a new perspective.

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Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Advertising Interviewing 45

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mobile Posse. ChurnZero is headquartered in Arlington, VA and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. LookingGlass™ Cyber Solutions. Two Six Labs. Cognosante. Microsoft Corp. Customer Value Partners (CVP). WeDoIT LLC. Peraton. .

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Technical Review Cybersecurity Venture Capital Entrepreneurship 10

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

They were built in a period before internet, before e-commerce, before mobile and still in many cases debt infrastructure is being used for processing payments and it’s just not built for what it’s being used for. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 164

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Categories include the Software as a Service award, Most Promising Start-Up, and “Best in Mobile” Cloud Solution. ChurnZero is headquartered in Arlington, VA and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital.

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Venture Capital SaaS Cloud Innovation 8

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Since 2010, he has served as the founder and CEO of Slice, which used to be known as My Pizza, a mobile and online service that enables people to easily order from authentic pizzerias in their neighborhood. Ilir, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for joining us. Ilir Sela: Thank you, Sam. Ilir on Growing a Bootstrap Business.

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Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 74

Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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