SaaS wisdom
Hey,
There is a lot of great content out there about growing SaaS businesses which we at CB Insights have benefited from.
I wanted to share four resources that we think are pretty tremendous.
If you know of other great resources on content marketing & SaaS, let me know. We'll pull together a Google doc or blog post to catalog everyone's suggestions.
Cheers,
Anand
@asanwal
RESEARCH BRIEFS
Kozmo vs Urbanfetch Part Deux? Uber this week announced plans to enter the increasingly crowded same-day delivery space. So far, Spark Capital-backed Postmates has trended well in the App Store while Google's app has ranked ahead of AmazonFresh and eBay Now. See the mobile app data on same-day delivery services.
Disrupting real estate. Momentum around venture investing in the real estate tech space appears to be hitting a fever pitch as Q4 2013 saw a five-year quarterly high in deal activity.
Ed Tech's most active investors. 500 Startups tops the list of most active investors in the Ed Tech space since 2009, see who else is active in Ed Tech.
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For largest VC-backed tech exits, it takes over six years. We broke down the top 100 U.S. VC-backed tech exits by the time between their first financing round and their IPO or M&A exit. Interestingly, there is no discernible difference between the time to exit between consumer and enterprise companies.
The venture capital funnel. 4% of companies have unicorn potential. 75% die or are orphaned along the way. If you're going to raise VC, you should look at this data to know what lies ahead.
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The most well-funded Hadoop startups. Funding growth to the Hadoop market has been driven by a small group of notable VC investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel Partners.
Flash storage exit valuation multiples. Amid a wave of consolidation in the enterprise flash sector, corporate buyers seem keen to buy relatively young companies (in revenue terms) at a hefty multiple.
The most active investors and well-funded companies in Wearables. Year-over-year deal activity to wearable tech startups rose over 150% and funding grew 80% in 2013 as investors jockeyed for position in the expanding wearables landscape.
INSIGHTS ABOUT VENTURE CAPITAL
Interesting articles by venture capitalists or about investing and M&A.
Five reasons not to raise venture capital. Interestingly, this article was written by a venture capitalist.
Building an enterprise sales team. Sequoia's Doug Leone on what to avoid and nail down when building out a startup sales team.
In mobile, everything is still wide open. Benedict Evans at A16Z identifies three big differences between the desktop and mobile internet
The mobile downturn. Fred Wilson writes that it has gotten harder, not easier, to invest on the Internet with the smartphone emerging as the platform of choice.
It's never been easier to become a VC... argues Homebrew's Hunter Walk, but also never been harder to stay one.
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