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02.24.2020

Profitability isnt a must to exit

I cringe writing that title because we’re sticklers for cash efficiency and achieving cash break even. However, we looked at 123 tech companies at IPO: 87 of them were not profitable (71%) and 74 were not generating positive cash flow……

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02.21.2020

The most important metric in software

Dollar retention is the most important measure in SaaS. There are two ways to measure it: gross dollar retention and net dollar retention. Gross dollar retention looks at how much of the customer base you’ve kept year over year without……

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02.18.2020

Lessons from a bootstrapped exit

We had the chance to speak to Ben Weiss, founder and CEO of Zcruit.  Zcruit was acquired by Reigning Champs in November 2017.  Ben shared his story with us and lessons from his journey are below. What is Zcruit? Zcruit helps……

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02.17.2020

What founders make at exit

When a startup founder shepherds his company to a successful exit (IPO), what are the paydays like? We dove into the major tech IPO’s of 2018 and 2019 to find out. Note that paydays aren’t necessarily what the founders took……

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01.29.2020

1 in 3 founders will be replaced as CEO

When you finally exit or IPO, will you be the CEO or will someone else be running the company? It’s a great question so we dug into 129 tech IPO’s to figure it out. Specifically, we looked at the CEO……

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