Tag: vcs
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sell on story, or sell on revenue
If you’re an entrepreneur in the venture game, you should internalize this. You either get sold for a strategic multiple (that would be Airtable at $11.7B), or you get sold for a multiple of revenue (2-5x, likely driven by your ability to turn a profit), or you reach public markets and hopefully a self sustaining…
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Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.
In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime – the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the foundation. We also got into the messy…
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Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion
Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion
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Why it’s so different now
Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Insane. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 2013 = $25 billion…
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