Walter Thompson

More posts by this contributor Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech Jesus, SaaS and digital tithing Though this may be a tough pill for some investors, we are never going back to the days where venture capital firms can win by being the only term sheet on the table — the...

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week, and although the event itself was virtual-only,...

Annual recurring revenue is a critical health metric for any subscription-based business. Calculating ARR is easy, but it’s a hard number to budge, as it’s a direct reflection of how well a startup is doing in terms of product-market fit. In his latest column, Sales Kiwi co-founder and TC+ contributor...

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. According to Anastasiia Kuzmenko, head of talent acquisition at Flyer One Ventures, “the biggest difference between hiring in a healthy...

Becoming an angel investor isn’t easy — and that’s on purpose. Those who claim the title must satisfy a few requirements with regard to income and licensing. If not, just about anyone could schedule Zoom calls with founders to talk about making their dreams come true. Full TechCrunch+ articles are...

The quickening pace of tech layoffs is creating growing uncertainty for workers, but it’s giving investors access to a new wave of technical and entrepreneurial talent. There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions...

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility...

Ryan Neu is the founder and CEO of Vendr, a SaaS purchase platform. Previously, he was a B2B SaaS sales leader at both InVision and HubSpot. More posts by this contributor Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow The “Great Restructuring” continues...

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Building a growth marketing team the right way 4 video content tips for your startup’s growth marketing When you look at early Uber or...

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Not a scientific sampling, but I...