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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. Optimize for a 1 not a 0 more than exact valuations now. Harry posed these questions.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Modano standardizes Excel models to improve comparability and reduce error rates.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The beauty of software, in general, is that you have this concept of MVP. Building a business around software has always been different. That’s a valuation number and pricing number. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Welcome, David.

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