VC Backed Startups
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Capital Allocators
3 statements about VC Backed Startups, every show
State tax and labor filings provide directional performance signals for private startups
“For idiosyncratic VC backed startups, they're never particularly accurate, but they also have a lot of signal in the trend. They're always consistently inaccurate for the same company, and so if they go up, that means something.”
Isenberg: Avoid crowded, high-demand markets to escape VC-backed competition
“You don't want to focus on high demand
And many tools.
This is kind of a trap because this ends up getting focused you know, it gets bombarded by VC backed startups.
And then you have a huge churn problem and it's just hard to earn attention.
So I would say li…”