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A collection of 25 posts

Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck
Founders

Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck

A frothy funding environment means more competition for talent. Funding gets easier; hiring gets harder.

7 min read
Breaking Apart the Rule of 40
Investors

Breaking Apart the Rule of 40

Rules are meant to be broken, and the Rule of 40 is no exception

6 min read
Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liability
Founders

Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liability

Preferred equity exists in a constant state of quantum superposition. It's neither equity nor debt, until it is.

9 min read
Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV
Investors

Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV

ACV isn't as useful a concept as people think. We need a different SaaS monetization metric.

9 min read
Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations
Investors

Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations

Companies don't catch up to their valuations; their valuations catch up to them.

6 min read
You Can't Eat Relative Growth
Founders

You Can't Eat Relative Growth

In startup land, we talk way too much about relative growth. We'd do better to ground our thinking in absolute growth.

10 min read
Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?
Investors

Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?

The super-rich earn more on their investments than the rest of us. Something nefarious, or something else?

10 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

5 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

7 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

8 min read
Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

10 min read
Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party
Investors

Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

4 min read
There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number
Founders

There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

14 min read
Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed
Investors

Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed

In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.

10 min read
Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

9 min read
Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity
Founders

Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

12 min read
Why Don't VCs Index Invest?
Investors

Why Don't VCs Index Invest?

VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.

10 min read
Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility
Investors

Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility

How the virus rocked stocks

4 min read
Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud
Investors

Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud

When to raise capital, what to expect from VCs, and the "new normal"

7 min read
How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue
Founders

How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue

A quick visit to the Red Sea

5 min read
Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching
Founders

Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching

Venture capital is changing — for the better

6 min read
High Retention = High Volatility
Investors

High Retention = High Volatility

Why SaaS revenue retention is a double-edge sword

5 min read
Waitlists are a Vanity Metric
Founders

Waitlists are a Vanity Metric

Waitlists, registered users, and other cumulative measures better measure the size of your pride than the size of your business

4 min read
How to Conquer Cohort Analysis With a Powerful Clinical Research Tool
Investors

How to Conquer Cohort Analysis With a Powerful Clinical Research Tool

Understanding cohort performance is critical for modern, high-velocity businesses, especially those with subscription or recurring revenue models. In SaaS or consumer subscription settings, small changes in churn can radically impact revenue growth. Product

7 min read
You Don't Understand Compound Growth
Founders

You Don't Understand Compound Growth

Einstein once (supposedly) said: Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe Of compound interest, Warren Buffet proclaims: Over time it accomplishes extraordinary things Compound interest, or growth, is one of

10 min read
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