Sammy AbdullahQ1 Private SaaS M&A TrendsSoftware Equity Group is an investment bank that puts out research on SaaS markets. They recently released their Q1 report. A summary is…2 min read·2 days ago----
Sammy AbdullahWhere SaaS CEOs should and shouldn’t spend timeWe’ve invested in 30 companies since our founding and we’ve seen some CEO’s use their time much better than others. In our view, below are…4 min read·3 days ago--1--1
Sammy Abdullah2 in 3 SaaS founders are CEO at exitWhen you finally exit or IPO, will you be the CEO or will someone else be running the company? We dug into the last 123 SaaS IPO’s and…2 min read·5 days ago----
Sammy AbdullahStrategic investors can be problematicOften we hear founders get excited about strategic investors — corporations making venture investments. Founders think the strategic…3 min read·May 10, 2024----
Sammy AbdullahNegotiating with VC, part 2Below is a continuation of a recent blog post about a book called Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. Chris was one of the premiere…5 min read·May 8, 2024--1--1
Sammy AbdullahNegotiating with VCI just re-read a book called Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. Chris was one of the premiere FBI Hostage Negotiators in the world…7 min read·May 6, 2024----
Sammy AbdullahSaaS Learnings from Rubrik’s IPOLast week there was a SaaS IPO, a cybersecurity company called Rubrik. We read through their S1 to see what we could learn about SaaS…3 min read·May 3, 2024----
Sammy AbdullahCloud suggests improving market for SaaSWe closely monitor Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s cloud revenues to get a feel for where the market for software is going. Those companies…2 min read·May 2, 2024----
Sammy AbdullahStrategic Acquirers don’t pay moreDo strategic acquirers pay more than private equity in SaaS? The data says ‘not really’. The data we track is all acquisitions of publicly…2 min read·Apr 29, 2024----
Sammy AbdullahSaaS IPO’s take 11 yearsHow many years will it take you to exit? We looked at every SaaS IPO since MongoDB in October 2017. The data is below along with a few…1 min read·Apr 26, 2024----