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The “Dry Bubble” We May Be In.  What That Means.

The “Dry Bubble” We May Be In. What That Means.

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 16, 2015

The other day, Bill Gurley, who has to be on the Top 5 most successful and smartest VCs, had a few semi-cryptic tweets.  Cryptic to non-VCs, at least: Wet bubbles (1999) are more fun than dry ones (2015). — Bill Gurley (@bgurley) June 10, 2015 At our recent LP meeting, an LP told me industry […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Initial public offering, venture capital

Why Only 12% of VCs Can Be Considered Successful.  Max.

Why Only 12% of VCs Can Be Considered Successful. Max.

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 10, 2015

Continuing our recent series on The Catharsis is Understanding How VC Really Works, it was only recently, spurred by Quora, I really thought through just how many VC partners can really be considered a success. Turns out math says it can’t be that many.  No matter how it may look from the outside. . Why? Well… […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Initial public offering, NASDAQ, Private equity, vc funding, venture capital

Why VCs Need Unicorns Just to Survive

Why VCs Need Unicorns Just to Survive

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 4, 2015

One of the most tiring things for founders can be always being compared to Unicorns.  Certainly sometimes it’s inspirational.  I loved it when many of the founders I work with came out of the ’15 SaaStrAnnual saying they needed to grow faster, at a Zenefits-like level: But the reality is there are different ways to make […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged hubspot, Initial public offering, marketo, Pardot, unicorn, venture capital

5 Tips To Make The Journey More Fun

5 Tips To Make The Journey More Fun

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 23, 2015

Really, there’s nothing I’ve done in my life that is harder than being a founder CEO. Nothing. It’s 100x harder than being a VP. Even if the actual work is easier. It’s 100x harder than being a VC.  Even if delivering top returns as a VC is maybe even harder than as a founder. But I […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged customer relationship management, echosign, Entrepreneurship, Initial public offering, InsightSquared, SaaStr, salesforce.com, software as a service, startups

A Great Discussion with @skuper @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

A Great Discussion with @skuper @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

By Mark Suster on July 28, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. I go every year because I love events hosted & moderated by insiders involving discussions by insiders because it maximizes the amount of real discussions people have. What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged dave mcclure, Entrepreneurship, Foundry Group, Initial public offering, Scott Kupor, startup lessons, startups, Union Square Ventures, vc funding, venture capital

The Pernicious Effect of Dilution in SaaS: The Cold, Hard, Bloody numbers

The Pernicious Effect of Dilution in SaaS: The Cold, Hard, Bloody numbers

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 18, 2012

And there was my first real-world lesson in dilution. One founder. A decade of dedication. IPO. Yet just a percent or two in ownership. Not enough to even “make the table”.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged dilution, Initial public offering, ipo, startups, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 12, 2012

I don’t know about you, but I really can’t stand case studies.  They always seem either contrived (forcing contrasts in companies that aren’t really there) or else too hypothetical, because we know which way things really worked out in real life (Case Study: Company A had to decide whether to do action X or Y.  […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged echosign, Eloqua, ExactTarget, exit, Initial public offering, ipo, m&a, marketo, merger, Pardot | 3 Responses

Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward

Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward

By Martijn Linssen on January 31, 2012

With the upcoming IPO of Facebook this week, I got a little worried. I told a few people “Mark my words, this IPO is going to blow the Social Media bubble once and for all” and even “Wouldn’t be surprised if FB’s IPO is going to start the final leg of this crisis and finish […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged $FB, 1.0, business exceptions, Eddie Murphy, facebook, financials, Initial public offering, ipo, social business design, social media, Social network, Trading Places, trust

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

By Ben Kepes on January 18, 2012

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly interesting given the fact that Intuit, a venerable provider with a

Posted in Application Software, Business | Tagged Dan Druker, Initial public offering, intacct, intuit, netsuite, quickbooks | 1 Response

The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

By Mark Suster on July 1, 2011

  This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. The series started here if you want to read from the start. Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Capital market, cloud computing, Dot-com bubble, Initial public offering, ipo, startups, Tech Market Analysis, vc funding, VC Industry, venture capital

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