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Denouement

View from Seed

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Startup pitch decks now have an obligatory unit economics page, not just an up and to the right revenue graph.

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Denouement

Agile VC

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Startup pitch decks now have an obligatory unit economics page, not just an up and to the right revenue graph.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Consumer Services (B2C). Copyright ©2012 Dow Jones & Company , Inc. See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. B2C startups we’ve invested in like ROIKOI and Thread are tapping into network effects?—?and