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Lance Weatherby

Understanding SaaS: Ongoing Costs and Churn

Understanding SaaS: Ongoing Costs and Churn

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby . Scott Kupor and Preethi Kasireddy of Andressen Horowitz recently published a strong SaaS valuation primer. If you don’t have a fundamental understanding of recurring revenue businesses and are interested in such things it is a must read. They discuss

Sources of Startup Ideas

Sources of Startup Ideas

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby. I have been reading and thinking a bit these days about the sources of startup ideas. How ideas that are worth turning into technology startups come to life. The best work I have found on this is by Daniel Gulati

Lance Weatherby's Recap of SEVC

Lance Weatherby's Recap of SEVC

Last week saw the 8th annual SEVC confab make its way to Atlanta at the swank downtown Ritz Carlton. Put on by TechMedia, SEVC events average over $80 billion in private/venture capital in attendance. All that capital of course captures the attention of entrepreneurs looking for funding and 48

Startup Naming

Startup Naming

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby. While a number of articles have been written on startup naming by the likes of Guy Kawasaki, Jason Calacanis, and Dharmesh Shah, I but together my own simple five point framework for startup name characteristics. I hesitate to call them

Lens For Evaluating Startup Ideas

Lens For Evaluating Startup Ideas

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby. One of the things that I have been pondering lately is how I can evaluate startups and startup ideas more systemically. There is good reason for this; I am looking for my next venture. And as I was contemplating how

Do Your Own PR

Do Your Own PR

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby. So I am spending more and more time these days advising concept stage and seed stage startups. And I had an interesting conversation with a pair of entrepreneurs the other day about press releases and marketing. They had reached a

Cloning A Clone

Cloning A Clone

This article is from Force of Good by Lance Weatherby. Back in the day when deal sites were all the rage and Andrew Mason was still CEO of Groupon he would talk about "clones" all the time. Clones being competitors. It seemed he used the term in a

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