The goal of a board meeting should be to maximize the value you get while minimizing the amount of time you spend preparing. A board’s job is to give advice, help solve problems and guide you through the company-building process. …

Calculate your SaaS Metrics automatically and compare your company to industry benchmarks About a month ago, we were approached by one of our portfolio companies to help them define and calculate their SaaS metrics. Being early stage investors, the companies we meet often do not yet have enough data to…

For those who are only getting started and don’t yet have data to use in either the SaaS Metric Calculator or the SaaS Metrics Industry Benchmark Graphs, we have separated the SaaS Glossary which you can find here. Have fun & spread the word! Brian & Rona

We updated our budget for early stage SaaS companies. The cool thing is that this version helps you create a sales forecast and automatically calculates some important SaaS metrics for you. We highly recommend that you also take a look at our SaaS Industry Benchmarks and our SaaS Glossary, it will help you fine-tune your assumptions. Of course as your company grows you are welcome to use our SaaS Metrics calculator to monitor your most important SaaS metrics.

It’s time to quantum The Hebrew University hosted the first Quantum Computing conference in Israel, and I had the honor to be invited to speak about our investment in QM. You can watch the talk here. Rona

The future of cloud-native A keynote I gave at the Cloud Native Day on November 2018: It summarizes nicely my vision and the kind of companies I like to invest in. I hope you will find it interesting. Please send me your thoughts. Rona

The First GitOps Policy Engine Bringing back visibility and control to codebase management in the DevOps era The VP engineering of a well known international software company led one of our recent Brainfest sessions. We listened intently as he told the story of his engineering group over the last five years. “Like most software…

Imagine instead of having to work for your microservice application, your microservice application worked for you. No need to chase developers in the middle of the night, forcing them to help you get to the root of production issues. No need to rewrite code, redeploy services or restart applications. Instead…