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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010. State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2010!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010. Happy New Year 2010! Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Cracking The Code. at 5:00 PM.

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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5).

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. SaaS companies projected to grow 18% over this period in January 2010 and this projection moved up only to 20% today. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5).

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. It was a pretty good valuation for the time.

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: A funny perspective on Google innovation.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking The Code: Made to Stick!

Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

This video is a very smart viral marketing initiative from Cardo Systems , a provider of bluetooth headsets and it reached more than 6m eyeballs (this number includes the different versions of the video as well as the videos of people trying the experience to show it is a scam!). Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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Cracking The Code: Laughing Out (c)Loud

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: United Breaks Guitar and more!

Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop.

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Hard times.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C.

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! Angel rounds also tend to close quicker. All Rights Reserved.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! Angel rounds also tend to close quicker. All Rights Reserved.

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5).

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile

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Cracking The Code: Launch of the SaaS 13 Index!

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Cracking the Code

MARCH 30, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: VC lifestyle

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 5, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur

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Cracking The Code: Betting on the right guy

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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The amazing Quora raises $50m

The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

When I read on Techcrunch this morning that Quora has raised $50m at a $400m valuation I thought “‘wow’, that’s interesting, I haven’t heard much about them recently, I wonder how they are getting on”. they were incredibly thorough – e.g. going the extra mile to support contact imports from a huge variety of services (to maximise virality).

Viral

Viral Framework Aggregator Retention

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Cracking The Code: Get your own helicopter for $50!

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Zune vs. Ipod

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Don't click on this link!

Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. I think one of the key takeaways is that the exponential growth of Internet connected devices along with the strong viral loops of Facebook and Twitter have served as accelerants for these high growth companies. Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta.

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Today’s Normalization.

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