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Storm Ventures $180M SaaS Fund – Congrat’s Jason & Anshu

By Zoli Erdos on May 8, 2015

Congratulations to fellow Enterprise Irregulars Jason Lemkin and Anshu Sharma on raising the new Fund, and to Anshu on joining Storm Ventures. Oh, and thanks for pimping the EI early in the video

Posted in Business | Tagged SaaS, startups, Storm Ventures, TechCrunch, vc funding, venture funding

The Series A Crunch:  One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital

By Bob Warfield on November 28, 2012

I’ve talked a lot about bootstrapping on this blog–I am a total convert, and I’m enjoying every minute of bootstrapping my own company.  There are many reasons for my enthusiasm.  Investors these days are going to make you take most of the bootstrap journey before giving you a dime being one of the biggest.  You’ve […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship, Liquidity Event, Seed money, startups, vc funding, venture, Venture Capital | 1 Response

How to Position a VC Startup for Acquisition:  You Can’t

How to Position a VC Startup for Acquisition: You Can’t

By Bob Warfield on October 23, 2012

How do you position and maneuver your VC-funded startup for acquisition? The short answer is, “You can’t.”   The VC’s didn’t sign up for an acquisition.  They are seeking a billion dollar revenue opportunity because that’s what it takes to move the needle on their portfolio.  If they are willing to talk about an acquisition at all, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, exit, investing, IPO, startups, strategy, vc funding, venture, Venture Capital, venture funding

Canada’s Next Five Years

Canada’s Next Five Years

By Jevon MacDonald on April 11, 2012

1997-2012: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. 2012-2020: Optimism, Opportunity, Execution. I’ve been bullish for a while now, it’s no secret. It was 5 years ago that I was writing off VC in Canada and explaining how startups needed to step up to create an environment to bring them back. And like a bowl of Sea Monkeys, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, education, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding, venture funding

When Capital Isn’t Scarce

When Capital Isn’t Scarce

By Bob Warfield on November 16, 2011

For a long time VC’s and other investors bemoaned SaaS.  I head more than one say that nobody would ever be able to raise as much money as Salesforce did to IPO–$70M–so you just had to figure out how to do it much more cheaply than Salesforce had. This morning I read that Marketo has […]

Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, Marketo, SaaS, salesforce.com, software as a service, vc funding, Venture Capital, Zuora

The End of the Beginning

The End of the Beginning

By Jeff Nolan on August 3, 2011

Today Get Satisfaction announced that we have successfully closed a new round of financing, led by Bruce Cleveland at InterWest Partners. It’s a validating moment for all the hard work that the team has undertaken, particularly in the last year and a half. Despite the fundraising process being a major MBO for me over the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged financing, Get Satisfaction, InterWest Partners, SCRM, Social CRM, vc, vc funding, Winston Churchill

Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)

Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)

By Zoli Erdos on June 28, 2011

Evernote has recently celebrated their third birthday. I also recently had my 21st birthday – it feels good to be able to legally grab a drink finally.  (Hey, if Evernote can lie about their age, so can I…).   Joke apart, I have no idea why a company would pretend to be half as young as […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged android, application software, Bubble, collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Evernote, iOS, iPhone, microsoft, mobility, notes, pdf, Productivity, startups, vc funding | 2 Responses

The Art of Riding the Bubble

The Art of Riding the Bubble

By Bob Warfield on March 24, 2011

People are increasingly asking whether there is a Bubble underway in the tech business.  The answer is that by the time you know there is a Bubble it’s probably too late to do anything about it.  But if all you’re doing is asking whether there is a Bubble, the Bubble is probably not here, yet. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bubble, Dot-com bubble, Entrepreneurship, Fred Wilson, IPO, startup valuation, startups, strategy, valuation, vc funding, venture, Venture Capital, venture funding

Color

Color

By Ross Mayfield on March 24, 2011

Wow that’s hot. Social networking, mobile, photo sharing. $41M raised before launch. Testing conventions, with damn good timing. But will this color fade to grey? Mobile social software application Color launched today. With more pre-launch funding by Sequoia et. al. than Flickr was bought for it is something to watch. Smart and accomplished team, which […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Color, Flickr, linkedin, photo sharing, Sequoia Capital, startups, sxsw, vc funding

SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a Vote of Support (Part 1)

SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a Vote of Support (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on December 17, 2010

Spend Matters has spent quite a bit of time covering vendor happenings in the supplier information management (SIM) and related markets of late. Some providers in the sector, such as Aravo and Rollstream, appear to be winning a se…

Posted in Business | Tagged Lavante, SAP Ventures, spend analysis, supplier diversity, vc funding | 1 Response

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