List: Venture | Curated by Mike Troiano

Sep 18, 2024
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Venture
Marvin Liao
Venture Capital is Hard: The End of an EraI’ve been practicing venture now for almost 11 years and been in the tech industry for over 26 years now. It’s fascinating how it seems…
Jun 20, 2024
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Jun 20, 2024
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Sammy Abdullah
Private SaaS M&A and Multiples in Q2Software Equity Group is an investment bank that puts out research on SaaS markets. They recently released their Q2 report. A summary is…
Jul 29, 2024
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Jul 29, 2024
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Both Sides of the Table
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Mark Suster
What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable…
Jun 20, 2017
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Jun 20, 2017
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Matty Brownell
Pitch decks are ugly — I made a free tool to make yours shine.Founders lack the design knowledge and resources to design effective pitch decks. As a startup brand designer, I see it firsthand.
Apr 20, 2023
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Apr 20, 2023
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Bootcamp
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Maxime Topolov
The Cream: Top 64 Tools to create anything in 2023Over the past two years, we’ve tested over 850 different tools and have narrowed down our top choices to just three in each category.
Apr 21, 2023
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Apr 21, 2023
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Balderton
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Solène Brébant
The evolution of the B2B go-to-market tech stack: a few areas to watchIf you’ve read my previous post, you’ll know that there are a number of external trends and factors impacting B2B go-to-market strategies —…
Feb 2, 2023
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Feb 2, 2023
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Sammy Abdullah
Updated SaaS M&A MultiplesSumo Logic is being acquired by Francisco Partners. Alongside multiples of publicly traded SaaS companies, public SaaS acquisitions are…
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
Sammy Abdullah
Net dollar retention of 98 SaaS co’sOne the most important metrics in SaaS is net dollar retention (“NDR”). It tells you what percent of revenue from current customers you…
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
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Entrepreneurship Handbook
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Aaron Dinin, PhD
I Became a Better Fundraiser When I Stopped Forcing VCs to Ask Me Stupid QuestionsInvestors always ask questions during fundraising pitches, but they’re not always good questions
Jan 24, 2022
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Jan 24, 2022
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Entrepreneurship Handbook
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Donna Griffit
I Boiled Down Hundreds of Successful VC Pitches to One Winning FormulaAfter seeing thousands of pitches over seventeen years, this formula is the one that I know works.
Sep 24, 2021
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Sep 24, 2021
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Codica Journal
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Dmitry Chekalin
10 Top SaaS Startups to Inspire You in 2021Today we are witnessing the rise of the SaaS domain. This article lists top 10 SaaS startups of 2021 for your inspiration.
Apr 14, 2021
Apr 14, 2021
Founder Collective
A Five Minute Intro to Startup SEOI built SEO engines at MasterClass and Bungalow — here’s what I gathered.
Jul 31, 2021
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Jul 31, 2021
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Sammy Abdullah
Measuring SaaS Contribution MarginBill.com, SumoLogic, and Confluent are public SaaS companies with excellent customer performance. In their prospectus’, each of these…
Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
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The Startup
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tjmahony
Remote First — This is WaterYou are probably reading this from a desk, in an office, in close physical proximity to colleagues who, like you, will spend ~54.2 minutes…
Feb 14, 2020
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Feb 14, 2020
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Both Sides of the Table
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Mark Suster
There are no Shortcuts: Why Showing up In Person is EverythingYou had an amazing meeting with an investor. Your product demo crushed. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space…
May 10, 2018
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May 10, 2018
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Creandum
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specht.p
Creandum Series A Deck TemplateA good deck is an important factor in maximising your success for raising a Series A. It’s your key marketing material and should spark an…
Mar 23, 2021
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Mar 23, 2021
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Venture University
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J. Skyler Fernandes
10 Characteristics Which Make A Truly Great Venture Capital InvestorTo VC, or not to VC, that is the question?
May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019
Michael B. Gilroy
The Death of the SaaS LTV/CACA little over two years ago I wrote a blog piece on Early Stage SaaS Unit Economics which outlines LTV/CAC for enterprise software…
Jun 24, 2019
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Jun 24, 2019
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Cantos Ventures
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Ian
The Unified Theory of Enterprise Value & Tech InvestingOn more pensive days, which have been abundant of late, I feel a sort of odd camaraderie with the late Stephen Hawking in his quixotic…
Jun 10, 2020
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Jun 10, 2020
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Better Marketing
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Donna Griffit
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Your Startup’s Investor Pitch DeckI wrote hundreds of them over 15 years, here’s my winning formula
Mar 29, 2017
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Mar 29, 2017
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