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Investors Think They’re More Impactful Than They Actually Are

VC Adventure

Indeed, many firms even institutionalize the practice of providing help to portfolio companies through extensive platforms that may include PR, talent, marketing, technical, and other help (sometimes offered for free, sometimes offered ads a pay-for-service, but often at below-market rates for those services).

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. look at their portfolio list. Connections? There are times you just need help getting s**t done.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yahoo Finance. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 23, 2011.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yahoo Finance. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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

Cracking the Code

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yahoo Finance. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yahoo Finance. My Investments. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Other angel investors and smaller funds also copied this innovation, and many of these new Micro-VC fund managers (like me) came from operational backgrounds at companies like PayPal/eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, or Google, rather than finance backgrounds from investment banking or Wall Street. and no, we didn’t.