by Adre's IT | 7 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asana, fertility, Market Analysis, Peter Wang, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, sunlight
The nature of my work isn’t cyclical: VC activity has slowed down dramatically this year, but I still keep pretty busy. According to the National Venture Capital Association, deal count for seed-stage startups decreased 52% year over year in Q1 2023. When I saw...
by Adre's IT | 3 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asana, energy efficiency, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, sunlight, Tennessee, Ultium Cells LLC
In an era when no one worried too much about IT spending, startups leaned into the bottom-up sales approach and driving product-led growth. But that was then, and this is now. “It’s too soon to pronounce bottoms-up dead, but it’s looking pretty...
by Adre's IT | 27 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, fertility, mosquitoes, property management, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, sunlight
After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice: One thing we’d like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, non-strategic board meeting. “Every board deck I’ve made and...
by Adre's IT | 24 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Emily Kramer, Princeton University, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, sunlight
Landing pages are one of the first places startups go to run experiments and refine their messaging, but if you aren’t constantly iterating, you’re leaving money on the table In his latest column, growth marketing expert Jonathan Martinez identifies multiple...
by Adre's IT | 20 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, fertility, hybrid cloud, property management, real estate agents, Samsara, Secfi, Startups, sunlight
How many paying customers do you have, and how long are they locked in? Annual recurring revenue (ARR) has always been a key metric, but with valuations down across the board and new money too tight to mention, it’s now a lodestar — especially for self-funded...
by Adre's IT | 17 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asana, energy efficiency, fertility, online education, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, Studies, sunlight
In professional sports, player-coaches can be extraordinarily effective: Celtics center Bill Russell won two NBA championships between 1966 and 1969. A recent study suggests that this principle also applies to venture capital. “Recent data from AngelList, pulled for...
