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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
