Venture Capital: It is a pricing, not a value, game!

Interesting observations on venture capital pricing models, how VCs attach numbers to companies, how these numbers get updated, and how we (investors, founders, and VCs) should read them, as a consequence.

Good summary for healthy metrics for a SaaS company.  How does yours measure up?

The Rule of 40% For a Healthy SaaS Company 

AWS + IoT = $$$

Here is a nice summary of AWS offerings to target the high-growth IoT market by Grey Heron.

With firms like McKinsey estimating that IoT will have a potential economic impact of $4T - $11T (yes, that really is a 'T' for trillion) by 2025 (11% of the world economy), AWS could be on the verge of a really big new business.  This  seems to play very well to AWS strengths.  Players in the IoT ecosystem should play close attention to AWS strategy in their own planning.