The Weekly Bloom

insights, news, and updates from bloom venture partners

Happy Friday, Founders and friends!

The Bloom team wishes our American readers a happy 4th of July! And to all of our friends up north, happy Canada day!

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What We’re Reading and Listening To…

📚 The Acquisition Playbook; Post-acquisition strategies to increase revenue

📚 Investor VCs and Operator VCs

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Favorites from the Ecosystem

Investors👇…..

adam neumanns chief of staff @AdamNeumannsCoS

LBO a 3-5m rev stagnant b2b saas, gut Reno and put it in hyper growth mode should be a way more common occurrence. So many startups waste years getting meaningful revenue and those that make it often get pidgeonholed by customer concentration risk and then die or are eaten

Nihar Sheth @nsheth12

Everybody has heard of Tiger Global these days. But the firm and its founder, Chase Coleman, are notoriously secretive... so I did some research on the backstory. Everything you need to know about Chase Coleman and the rise of Tiger Global (warning: long thread)👇

Monique Villa @MoniqueVilla

My first role in VC (c. 2013) was Investor Relations for a first-time $40M fund based in LA & Singapore focused on emerging markets. In charge of fundraising, I learned VC from the ground up. Starting today, I will share best practices I learned & invite others to chime in! 💰

Founders👇……

Noah Kagan @noahkagan

We grew Mint from 0 to 1 million users in 6 months. 2 years later, Mint sold for $170 million. Here's how we got those first million users👇

Gale Wilkinson @Vitalize @galeforceVC

Founders, I'll never know more about your business and strategy than you do. Here's what I do know at pre-seed/seed: 1) assessing team's ability to 🥇 2) understanding a business model's 🚀 potential 3) betting on startups + founders with the *it* factor Quick 🧵 on each below.

Operators👇…..

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

A common problem & question in fast-growing startups is how a visionary product-focused founder can scale as the product, business & the org get larger & more complex. A thread on the types of product leaders to hire, the contracts to create, the mistakes to avoid:

Ryan Kaufman📈 @growth_student

If you’re a SaaS founder, you need to study Notion The growth strategies used become a $2B startup and reach 1M users after a single seed round A thread👇

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News from the Industry: deals, deals, and more deals 💰

Luminate Capital Partners sells AutoQuotes to TA Associates

EQT Private Equity to acquire PRO Unlimited

Team of Former Insight Partners Investors Launch Nexa Equity

Thoma Bravo to take QAD Inc private

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End Note

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