Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning. SaaS startups need to have a VC that understands the SaaS model, including market development strategies, upsell dynamics, sales incentive plan, etc.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. If you are a content producer or a freemium app or game developer, you would know, instantly, what I am talking about. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x

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Global Europe Software Review 62

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

From March to August 2020, Melio saw payments volumes increase by 700% as US small businesses rushed to find a solution to pay their suppliers online. Now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes, Melio’s monthly active users (MAU) grew by more than 2,000% in 2020 as more US small businesses made the leap to digital payments.

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B2B Cloud Europe 62

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. Europe has also joined the race with its first Cloud giants. And Europe has shown even greater acceleration.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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SBA Technical Review Startup 124

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. But I’ll tell you, 2020 was hectic. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 41