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Utilizing paid advertising to grow newsletters
The average SaaS business spends between 30-35% of their ARR on marketing. The average media business is different. The NYT spent less than 8% of its revenue on marketing in 2020 — and they’re not an exception. After speaking with 10+ media operators, 4 said they spend $0, and 1 brave soul is currently spending…
Read MoreH2-zero: decarbonizing hydrogen ⬇️
If you keep an eye on our weekly round-up emails on Sundays, you’ll have noticed a bevy of ‘green’ hydrogen deals hit the wire over the past few weeks and months. These are companies whose business and technology centers on producing hydrogen with low-to-no carbon emissions. For example: Last week, H2Pro raised $75M in Series B funding…
Read More2/1/2022: Chart of the Day
Non-traditional investors (mutual funds, PE investors, sovereign wealth funds) sky rocketed in 2021, creating 5,212 deals and $253.8B in deal value total. Three thoughts: This is a big reason valuations are being pushed higher. Trend will have zero impact on first and second tier VCs. 2022/2023 will return to 2019/2020 levels with stock market correction and high…
Read More2/1/2022: Alan’s Angle
Domestika? More Like Intertionalika Domestika, the arts and creatives tutorial site, raised a monster $110M funding round at a $1.3B valuation led by Zeev Ventures. The company currently has 2k courses, created by 13k professionals, and 8M members who have taken a total of 13M courses. This is a significant step up from the company’s last raise…
Read MoreFintech Index Tracks Performance Against S&P
TL;DR: F-Prime wanted to publish a Fintech Index, designed to track the performance of emerging, publicly-traded financial technology companies, years ago. But it wasn’t until 2021 that there was a large enough sample size of fintech companies slated to go public to actually track. Fintech performance is just heating up. Can you feel it? What’s Up…
Read More‘Pay Me in Equity, Pay Me in Equity’
TL;DR: Companies with more racial and ethnic diversity in their leadership teams perform better financially, but we don’t talk about that enough in fintech. So, let’s talk. Straight Facts For every 10% increase in racial and ethnic diversity on the senior-exec team, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rises 0.8%. There is a 35% greater likelihood that companies…
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