Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

How to Negotiate: Lessons from Never Split the Difference [Part Two]

This article will cover how to negotiate by using the tactics from Chris Voss’s book, Never Split the Difference. This is part one of a two-part series on how to...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
8 min read

How to Negotiate: Lessons from Never Split the Difference [Part One]

This article will cover how to negotiate with VCs by using the tactics from Chris Voss’s book, Never Split the Difference. This is part one of a two-part series on...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

The 12 Commandments of Customer Success

We’ve had the good fortune of learning from and investing in SaaS businesses with excellent customer retention and upsells. Below are some of the key learnings we’ve gathered over time...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

Key Takeaways from Startup Accelerator Startupbootcamp – Month One

This piece discusses some key learnings from participating in the well-known startup accelerator, Startupbootcamp. 30 days have passed since our team at Tradler began the three-month startup accelerator at Startupbootcamp...

Michael Thompson

Entrepreneurs
7 min read

Life in a Startup Accelerator

This article discusses a founder’s experience participating in a startup accelerator, Launch Delta Home Services Accelerator, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Sammy is a co-founder of Blossom Street Ventures. We invest...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

The Intersection of Impact Investing and Technology Startups

Paul Miller is CEO of Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early-stage impact investor for tech for good ventures. In this piece, he looks at the convergence of impact investing and...

Paul Miller

Entrepreneurs
2 min read

Venture Capital Report | Dow Jones VentureSource’s Q2 2018 Summary

This article discusses the key findings from the Dow Jones VentureSource’s quarterly findings for U.S. venture capital fundraising, investment, valuation, and liquidity. Sammy is a co-founder of Blossom Street Ventures. We...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

How Market Size Determines Your Round Size

This article will review how market size affects round size when raising funding. Sammy is a co-founder of Blossom Street Ventures. We invest in companies with run rate revenue of...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

The Series A Report

This article will cover learnings from what founders are asking for when they raise their Series A rounds. We look at the metrics around revenue, valuation, round size, and more...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

SaaS Best Practices for Sales, Onboarding, Customer Success, and Patents

This article will cover the best practices in customer success, sales, and onboarding for SaaS companies. Last week we met with a SaaS business that in our view is doing...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

One of the Best Startup Post Mortems We’ve Ever Read

Linked here is one of the best startup post-mortems I’ve ever read. It’s by Rand Fishkin, founder of a company called Moz. The business had fantastic growth out of the...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

The SaaS M&A Report for Q2 2018

This article will cover the Software Equity Group’s SaaS M&A Snapshot for Q2 for SaaS companies. We recently got Software Equity Group’s SaaS M&A Snapshot for Q2. SEG is a...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

How to Maximize Founder Equity at Exit

Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy owned a combined 37% of Snapchat before it went public. Mark Zuckerberg owned 21% of Facebook, Sergey Brin and Larry Page owned 31%...

Sammy Abdullah

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

4 Private Companies Capitalizing on Corporate Ethics in the Millennial Age

Research suggests that Millennials will overtake Boomers as the largest living generation in 2019, surpassing them by around 1 million people as Millennial numbers swell and Boomers decline. The group...

Susan French

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

Generating Alpha with Trademark and Patent Data

“Find your unfair advantage, then build out from there.” This is one of the more valuable pieces of advice Tev Kofsky has ever received. These unfair advantages can be found...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

Finding a Startup Co-founder: The Luck and Science

The 48-hour sailing trip from Barcelona to Ibiza was a spontaneous idea. It wasn’t a leisure trip or a means of getting to an infamous party island, but a tool...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

Hope Is Not A Strategy

A story of two entrepreneurs who were killing it with SEO. Then, when organic Google love stopped rolling in, they took action. “Hope is not a strategy!” — said Manuel...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

Chemistry Is (Almost) Everything: How Investors Decide Which Companies To Fund

In 1996 a founder of a small startup visited 20 different investors. He raised $50,000 for less than 1% in equity. One of those investors was where his own parents,...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

7 Failed Startups and the Lessons Learned

Some of the best success stories start with failed startups. In 2005 Evan Williams founded a podcast platform called Odeo. Unable to compete with Apple’s iTunes store, Odeo only went...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Entrepreneurs
3 min read

These Are The 15 Best Accelerators In The U.S.

Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase