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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. While I am a big proponent of startup ingenuity, grit, sweat-equity and the success stories of our American experiment, when it comes to targeting startups as B2B clients, the cards are stacked heavily against us.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. No, I prefer boring businesses and established companies that are not seeking their own sweat equity for services provided.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). This time around, the health of the venture business may depend on what hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and large secondary market groups do.

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Female Founders! Pitch for a Fast Track into Capital Factory with a $100,000 Investment

Austin Startup

Access to the Capital Factory Mentor network as long as we are shareholders Up to $250,000 in potential total hosting credits from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and other major hosting providers (each individual offer is different and subject to change) A free Capital Factory coworking membership for you and your team for six months Capital Factory (..)

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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

View from Seed

MS Office is obviously part of Microsoft overall which has many other huge businesses (Azure, Xbox, Windows, etc). Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc. Market Cap. Zoom = $20B.

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Slack S-1: Will APRU Drive Long Term Value?

Agile VC

MS Office is obviously part of Microsoft overall which has many other huge businesses (Azure, Xbox, Windows, etc). Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc. Market Cap.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Tal Liani, Managing Director, Equities Research-Communications Equipment, Bank of America. Do you want to have virtualization to reduce the number of servers to minimum possible?