From the Investors Morgan Housel of Collaborative Fund reports on why fewer companies are going public, why it’s a problem, and what can be done about it in “The Bad… Read Full Article
From the Investors First Round Capital publishes the survey results from more than 700 founders asked about everything from fundraising to their office’s price per square foot, and new areas… Read Full Article
How SaaS Sales Teams Can Reduce Churn For any VP of Sales, increasing a company’s run rate from $300K to $3MM over the span of six months is an impressive… Read Full Article
From the Investors Atomico publishes a 118 page report that looks at capital flows over the last few years, and combines it with an assessment of local talent, the strength… Read Full Article
From the Investors Joe Lonsdale of 8VC addresses how to think about the value of experience at a technology startup, the seniority of a company’s team, and when it’s the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jason Lemkin of SaaStr Fund believes we are just at the bottom of the second inning of the SaaS game and describes the future he’s bullish on… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Coats of Correlation Ventures proposes a different definition of startup winners to put up on the pedestal and celebrate and seek to fund in “Unicorns are… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures makes predictions about Uber’s imminent IPO by cobbling together publicly released metrics in “Here’s What A 2017 Uber IPO Could Look Like”… Read Full Article
From the Investors Kyle Lacy of OpenView Venture Partners publishes 72 slides encouraging double-digit growth with real strategy instead of ‘growth hacking your way to oblivion’ in “You Can’t Growth… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Skok of Matrix Partners visualizes the 2016 SaaS Survey Part 2 results including application delivery methods, operational costs, churn, and more in “2016 SaaS Survey Infographic”… Read Full Article
From the Investors Brad Feld of Foundry Group shares his take on the current state of venture capital investing in a conversation with Michael Platt of Cooley LLP in “Q316… Read Full Article
From the Investors Martin Giles of Wing VC publishes a 43-slide deck that covers IoT M&A trends, winning and losing categories, growth sectors, platformization, and more in “IoT Startup State… Read Full Article
From the Investors Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures discusses a variety of startup risks and how to mitigate them in “How to De-Risk a Startup” Ted Serbinski of Techstars and… Read Full Article
From the Investors Josh Nussbaum of Compound discusses the recent trend of ML/AI startups raising larger rounds in order to build large data sets early on in “Data Sets are… Read Full Article
From the Investors Andrei Brasoveanu of Accel focuses on defining & explaining the key metrics that marketplace founders should track, as well as pitfalls / commentary around them in “10… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sarah Catanzaro of Canvas Ventures explains why enterprises need to start thinking about data as a strategic asset in “Why Data Strategy Will Save Machine Intelligence” Top… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jerry Neumann of Neu VC joins Dave Lerner on Venture Studio to discuss the art and science of seed investing, pros and cons of boards at small… Read Full Article
From the Investors Eric Paley of Founder Collective declares that amount of capital raised is a vanity metric and analyzes IPO metrics from the past five years in “Overdosing on… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jean-Baptiste Dumont of Serena Capital dives into how data is a new medium between humans, machines and nature allowing us to leverage on our new digital abilities… Read Full Article
From the Investors Raph Crouan of Startupbootcamp gives insight into the trends and startups they’ve seen whilst running their IoT and hardware accelerator in “The Future of IoT” Victor Gutwein… Read Full Article
Markets React As Some Of 2016’s Biggest Tech IPOs Ask For More Some recent tech IPOs are looking to bring in more cash. Here’s what the market thinks. From the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Maia Heymann and Ash Egan of Converge Venture Partners highlight early experimentation (consortium and blockchain-as-a-service options), plus the four items every corporate buyer should consider in “Blockchain… Read Full Article
From the Investors River Venture Partners highlights new developments and investment trends of the Dutch startup ecosystem in “State of the Dutch Tech Startup & VC Landscape” (slides) Ann Crady… Read Full Article
From the Investors Judith Elsea of Weathergage Capital discusses the three things LPs want to see from VCs and why the table stakes for VCs is higher than ever in… Read Full Article