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06.21.2019

The early exit of Zcruit

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……

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06.20.2019

Venture capital trends

We just received Dow Jones VC Edge report for Q1 2019.  The data is excellent and shows the data behind trends in venture capital.  What are the trends? i) the market has never been more awash with venture capital; but……

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06.19.2019

net dollar retention needs to be 109%+

One SaaS metric we monitor closely is net dollar retention.  It measures what percent of revenue you retained from the prior year after accounting for upgrades, downgrades, and churn.  Formulaically it’s beginning of period revenue + upgrades – downgrades –……

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06.18.2019

Learnings from the acquirhire of a travel startup

We had the chance to speak with Eric Shepard, formerly of Trill Travel.  Trill had a successful acqui-hire exit to Lonely Planet.  Eric shared his story with us; lessons from his experience are below.   What was TRILL? TRILL is an……

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06.17.2019

Raising too much cash can hurt you

At the link below is one of the best startup post-mortems I’ve ever read.  It’s by a founder of a company called Moz.  The business had fantastic growth out of the gate, took on major VC money, tried to scale……

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