SaaStr session on the risky business of Series B: why it's the hardest round, what growth-stage investors diligence, and the trap of a too-high Series A price.
Rare stage-specific treatment of the round with the highest failure rate.
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Point Nine's Christoph Janz presents the five metrics that matter when raising a SaaS Series A and B, with the benchmark ranges his fund actually uses.
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Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev summarizes his large-scale research on how venture capitalists actually make decisions: what they weight (team vs market vs product), how many deals they screen, and how valuations are really set.
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Recent YC Startup School session defining the key terms founders must know before raising: SAFEs, caps, pro rata, option pools, board seats, and liquidation preferences in plain language.