The VC Corner 📰 #14
Exit values plunge📉, Founder Salary Benchmark 📊, VC Industry Outlook🔮 & more!
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Top Headlines 🚨
Exit values plunge as founders, investors dig in for another tough year 📉 [sifted]
Reddit Plans to Sell Stock to Loyal Users in Unusual IPO Wager ❤️ [WSJ]
AI, cybersecurity topped unicorn leaderboards in 2023 🦄 [Pitchbook]
Saudi Arabia Overtakes the UAE in Middle East VC Fund Raising 🥇 [Bloomberg]
Horizon Capital Closes its Ukraine Fund IV at $350m, $100m above Target 💵 [Horizon Capital]
BuzzFeed sells Complex for $108 million, announces job cuts ✂️ [AXIOS]
Arevon Energy, Inc., a NYC- and Scottsdale, AZ-based renewable energy developer, owner, and operator, secured over $1 Billion 🍃 [FinsSMEs]
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In-Depth Insights 🔍
Founder Salary Benchmark, Sizing ESOP, "Normal" Burn Rates, Optimal Team Size & More 📊 [Andre Retterath]
You should be playing with GPTs at work 🖥️ [Lenny Rachitsky]
The state of SaaS pricing - Is usage-based pricing still the future of SaaS? 🏷️ [Kyle Poyar]
The Best Way to Drive Demand in Marketplaces is Hiding in Plain Sight 🛒 [Casey Winters, Dan Hockenmaier]
Winning Strategies for Applied AI Companies - Key Success Factors after reviewing over 70 companies that have raised at least $7M 🏆 [Louis Coppey]
Pitch Framework - The rules of a good pitch 📝 [Jean de la Rochebrochard]
The Advice That Stings is The Advice You Want to Hear 👂 [SaaStr, Jason Lemkin]
Your "TAM" is Why I Have Trust Issues 🌍 [CJ Gustafson, Jack Raines]
Eric Schmidt: The great founders are frugal 💸 [Startup Archive]
Interesting Reports 📊
2024 Institutional Crypto Hedge Fund & Venture Report 💼 [VisionTrack, Loic Staub]
VC Industry Outlook - Insights and Prediction from VC Managers and Limited Partners 🔮 [Allocate, Arjun Vir Singh]
2024 B2B Sales Benchmarks Insights from $54 Billion of Revenue 💼 [Pavilion, Ebsta]
The rise of PayTech - seven forces shaping the future of payments 💳 [EY, Norbert Gehrke]
Captivating Podcasts 🎙️
Reddit’s IPO, Consumer vs. Enterprise AI, and Sam Altman’s New Fund [This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis]
Bad Moves Founders Make [Venture Capital, Jon Bradshaw, Peter Harris]
25% of fintechs pitching top VC are AI-first startups [Tech.eu]
How to Raise a Round in 2024 [A Product Market Fit Show, Lee Silverstoner]
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