How to Conquer Silicon Valley from Sydney, Stockholm, or South Africa
One of the secrets of B2B entrepreneurship is that a good enough product with exceptional distribution will win more often than an exceptional product with mediocre distribution.
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Want to raise a series A? Be smarter at seed
The “Series A crunch” sometimes still feels real. It dooms many startups that could otherwise have easily survived if they had been more strategic about their seed-stage fundraising.
The IPO Alternative No One is Talking About
In a world where IPOs are an unlikely outcome and traditional M&A exits are difficult to manufacture, there is a new alternative for liquidity starved founders and investors — The PE exit. It’s an invisible ecosystem to most, but when you see a headline about a PE firm making an “investment” in a mature SaaS startup, and there is no mention of valuation, or even what series it represents, you’re most likely witnessing an acquisition, of sorts.
How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: The Firebase Story
Hundreds of millions of people use Firebase-powered apps every day, though they may not realize it. The company started as backend-as-a-service for app developers that made real-time functionality simple for Shazam, NPR, SeatGeek, and hundreds of thousands of other services.
Why today’s tech themes are poor predictors of tomorrow’s hot startups
One of the questions a VC gets most often is “what are you interested in?” Many investors have developed “themes” that become a shorthand used to discuss the types of deals they like