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How to value your SaaS company

VC Adventure

This has contributed to companies raising more money than in the past before they go public (almost $100M on average for SaaS businesses that went public after 2011 vs. less than half that for those that went public before). Verticalization. Over 2,000 different firms participated in these rounds. had a lower slope) than I expected.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.

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Freemium is alive and kicking

David Cohen

After the market downturn, I think that investors in general got more picky about “real” revenue models. As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

Montgomery believes there will be 50 IPOs in 2010 as there is pent-up supply and a higher risk tolerance amongst institutional public investors harmonizing at 40 deals / year for the 3 years starting in 2011. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

My advice was to keep doing the SharePoint solution development and consulting work the company does today and develop the store project as a side effort until the market is ready. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

YoungUpstarts

Here are his small business predictions for 2012: 2011 was the “Year of the Daily Deal”; 2012 will be the “ Year of the Empowered Merchant ”. million media tablets will have shipped in 2011. Social media gets marketing dollars in 2012. Small businesses move to the cloud. Social media isn’t just for early adopters anymore.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.