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Interesting trends that pop out at first glance: 1. Seems like YC is all aboard the B2B SaaS train. This is funny because early last decade B2B SaaS was known
by majani 4y ago
Interesting trends that pop out at first glance:
1. Seems like YC is all aboard the B2B SaaS train. This is funny because early last decade B2B SaaS was known as mostly a lifestyle business category, while investors focused on consumer facing tech and big ticket enterprise products
2. It appears that the big tech employee track and the startup track are one and the same now. This flies in the face of the common wisdom that entrepreneurs and employees are very different from one another.
- EGreg 4y agoRecurring revenues and hockey stick growth. AKA VC crack.
- tptacek 4y agoIt's a funding process that appears to somewhat deliberately mimic the process for applying to postsecondary school, so the frequent school connections are unsurprising. (I didn't meaningfully attend college at all and am in this directory.)
- tomhoward 4y agoIn a recent video chat, YC partners explained how consumer startups are often a "tarpit" (seem attractive - "all my friends think it's a great idea", but super-hard to get uptake, scale and revenue). Whereas there's an endless pool of opportunities to solve business problems that many small-med companies would happily pay (a little bit) for, and it's much quicker to validate (see if other startups will use it) and monetise early (vs both consumer and enterprise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIawSAygO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIawSAygO4
- majani 4y agoI remember the Basecamp guys shouting themselves hoarse about these very same values back when "Social, Local & Mobile" were the new hotness. Seems like they were prophets now