capital SaaS startup 
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MAY 24, 2021
But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. It literally drove FOMO.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “ Startup = Growth ” three or four times now. “The growth of a successful startup usually has three phases: There’s an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it’s doing. I talked about some of that here.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. ” I highly recommend reading it.
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APRIL 26, 2016
There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. So if you’re able to raise easily no problem.
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MAY 4, 2015
I have no doubt that multi-billion startups will disrupt this business with both a higher-quality product and lower costs. They know they can’t beat startups on innovation so they’ve started taking ads in NYC saying, “don’t trust your stuff in the cloud.” What tech has our capital raised gone into?
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.
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