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Perspectives, not platitudes.
Investment perspectives, market analysis, and growth playbooks from 30 years of backing Founders. What we've learned, what we're seeing, and what actually works.
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Go To Market
How to Reduce Customer Churn
Focusing on reducing churn now will strengthen revenue growth quarter over quarter
Article
Go To Market
Zack Urlocker
Rory O'Driscoll
Trends
ScaleVP Welcomes Digital Marketing Master Tim Kopp as EIR
Former ExactTarget CMO shares his top pain points facing marketers today
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Trends
Stacey Bishop
Portfolio
Our Investment in Crittercism
Apps without performance monitoring are like Formula 1 race cars without instrumentation and pit crew. They either crash and burn or finish last.
Article
Portfolio
Andy Vitus
Trends
Developer-Oriented Services
A scorecard for evaluating developer-focused SaaS companies.
Article
Trends
Andy Vitus
Security
Security Expert, Bill Burns, Joins ScaleVP as EIR
Former Netflix Director of Security joins firm to help navigate the mind of the CISO
Article
Security
Ariel Tseitlin
Go To Market
Making Sense Out of Cents: Determining Employee Compensation
Compensation is a mysterious process at many startups. Once an organization has scaled beyond a few people...
Article
Go To Market
Sharon Wienbar
Trends
Balancing Vision & Execution: What I Learned as an EIR at ScaleVP
Eric Tilenius recently concluded his Executive-in-Residence stay at ScaleVP to become CEO of BlueTalon.
Article
Trends
Sharon Wienbar
Trends
4 Things Investors Need to Know About Your Startup
Angels, venture capitalists, private equity firms and mutual funds all evaluate investments on the same four basic criteria.
Article
Trends
Sharon Wienbar
Trends
From Dead to a Trillion Dollars
We divided all Companies up into three large sectors: Information Technology, Healthcare and Other.
Article
Trends
Rory O'Driscoll
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Investment perspectives, market analysis, and growth playbooks from 30 years of backing Founders.
