From the Investors

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures dissects the numbers behind $1 billion of investment this year in incumbent and fast-growing SaaS sectors in “Trends In Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016”

Bryce Roberts of OATV and Indie.vc advises that you don’t need a master plan you just need to start in “Startups Are Overdosing On Ambition These Days”

Josh Felser of Freestyle Capital finds that talking about women in tech is a minefield, but he says, “I’m doing it anyway” in “Battle of the Sexists”

Carl Fritjofsson of Creandum explains why you have to do the math and there are two basic methods for estimating market size: top-down and bottom-up in “Your Market Size Is Only a Fraction of What You Think It Is”

Todd Schneider of Spinta Capital provides an overview of venture loan costs, key drivers for availability, traditional loan types, and alternative structures in “Market Terms: Emerging Growth Company Loans”

Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups reflects on the performance of her personal investments vs. the investments she’s made with 500 Startups and finds focus on pedigree as a differentiator in “How Does Pedigree Affect Fundraising?”

From the Operators 

Alex Turnbull of Groove shares his painful story of Groove almost running out of runway, why they had to rebuild their product, and how failing at content marketing became their saving grace in “The Story We Haven’t Shared: How Our Startup Almost Died” (series part 1)

Amy Hoy of Freckle Time Tracking outlines why you should start your business with a lil itty bitty product that is easy to start, finish, easy to ship, and easy to keep selling in “When Should You Start a SaaS?”

Ada Chen Rekhi formerly of SurveyMonkey describes why a substantial investment of time and energy to build a great product and marketing partnership is worth it in “Effective Marketing + Product Partnership”

Mark Rabkin of Facebook walks through how embracing any awkwardness in 1:1s with coworkers can build trusting relationships in “The Art of the Awkward 1:1”

Jeremy Boyd of Related highlights career changing insights he learned from his first side project launch and first product launch for a paying job in “My First Product Launches”