VC Adventure
AUGUST 31, 2017
So no surprise that when River Cities Capital released an overview of SaaS operating and valuation benchmarks, I hung on every juicy detail. They took the 92 public SaaS companies and analyzed their key operating metrics. At IPO only 7 of 39 companies that have gone publics since 2013 had positive EBITDA. Verticalization.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 24, 2016
When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
Reviewing financial & operational performance. By bringing in an industry player with startup DNA we brought somebody that could push the team much harder on how their value prop would resonate (or not) with customers, which verticals to target our offering to and importantly what others solutions were in the market and how we stacked up.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Its development stage has an insignificant runtime and triggers steady growth and distinction of operations. It also makes use of a mono-thread, that is, the event perimeter dealing with all the opposed I/O operations. They can use both Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling, which help enhance the performance of your application.
Hunter Walker
MAY 4, 2014
New VCs, especially those with an operating background, can see a company for what they want it to be rather than what it is. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. Our strategy isn’t to necessarily be contrarian but we decided there were certain verticals that we weren’t going to pursue in 2013.
thebarefootvc
AUGUST 13, 2013
These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Fast forward to 2013. When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 23, 2022
Unlike much of its competition, Gopuff is a first-party vertically-integrated company. When literally every order is a rush order, operations can’t just be good – they have to be excellent, adaptive, and geared toward constant learning and improvement. But it’s what happens behind the scenes that makes Gopuff so intriguing.
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