Scaling a SaaS Business to 11,000 Customers: Booker.com CEO Josh McCarter (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. In 2010, SaaS investors were less rigorous than they are today about unit economics. Josh managed to raise a $15 million Series A and acquired a significant runway to figure out the metrics of his SMB-focused SaaS business. Read more about his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s

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Catching Up On Readings: 2016 IPO Market

This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at the global IPO market and the factors affecting it such as the US elections and the Brexit vote. This year, Asia-Pacific has topped the leaderboard accounting for 53% of deal value, followed by EMEA with 29% and the Americas at 18%. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

October 6 – 324th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 324th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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323rd Roundtable Recording On September 29, 2016: With Asheem Chandna, Greylock Partners

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mike Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets (Part 4)

Mike Driscoll: CMO’s are now waking up to the fact that when they spend their marketing dollars, they’re not just getting performance, but they also have a right to get the data about what performed, how, where, and when. As that realization is starting to percolate in this domain, CMO’s are recognizing how important data

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The customer has everything happening in an auto mode. They don’t really have to worry about it as long as they authorize you and you have ways of figuring out which authority accepts what kind of filing. Accordingly, you handle them digitally or manually. That’s opaque to the customer. Peter Horadan: Exactly. We

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Roundtable Recap: September 29 – Funding Fat Startups with Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock. The discussion was specifically focused on the topic of funding fat startups, something Asheem has done routinely, one of the very few VCs still doing so. Very interesting discussion. Recruitee As for the pitches, first up pitching, Perry Oostdam from Amsterdam presented

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mike Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. With the real-time nature of your work, how do your customers take into account the signals that you’re providing and quickly act on them? What are the interfaces and APIs that you plug into to enable them to act on that? Mike Driscoll: It is all about the action that people can

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