Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. In the Early Days.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To date, there have been only four major European SaaS exits (all IPOs), including QlikTech in 2010, Wix in 2013, Zendesk in 2014 and Mimecast in 2015. Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US. Vertical solutions are typically a sign of a more mature ecosystem.

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