I attended the SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC yesterday and there was a lot of talk about capital efficiency from the VC panel. Capital efficiency is nothing new, but under the current economic scenario all the VCs seem to be chanting the same mantra all of a sudden. There was a recent popular blog [...]
Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives. read the story at GigaOM. The now infamous ppt: Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation [...]
Attended the SaaS Economic Summit last week and there were some interesting sessions that talked about the economics of SaaS. Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine presented some operating benchmarks on SaaS companies that was aggregated from data OPEXEngine collected from SaaS & non-SaaS companies. Some of the key points from her presentation: She quoted Will Price’s [...]