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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Ask Xi or Putin how that’s going for them. Valuations were a measure of success.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. The timing horizon is much shorter, the prices one pays are much higher so you can’t just be right about the company but you must be right about the valuation and the exit price.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics. Your favorite investor told you this was a bad idea.

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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

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With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are.

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Squabbler Launches New Features To Power Video Engagement

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Squabbler’s software as a service (SAAS) platform gives publishers a plug and play technology to drive audience engagement through video and has been garnering a lot of interest from big name publishers like Bravo, the CBC, and Major League Baseball. Watch video metrics, track performance.

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