Artem Gassan is the General Partner (GP) at SaaS Growth Ventures and has +4 years of early-stage investing and was a founder of 4 startups with 2 exits. Former Partner and EIR at Upshift Partners and 500 Startups where he invested and helped to scale sales, and revenue for over 50+ portfolio companies. He has and reviewed over 1,000 investments for Fund IV at 500 Startups and accelerator.

On today's episode we talk about:

1. What is Artem's backstory? What is SaaS Growth Ventures? What are the focus areas? What is the fund thesis? What do you ultimately want to achieve with the fund?
2. How is COVID reshaping saas businesses? How was it different pre-COVID?
3. How to assess a startup? What are the key metrics that a founder should be obsessed with? What are the metrics investors should be focusing on? What does the decision-making process look like?
4. What do successful startups/founders do differently from the ones that die through a thousand cuts? And for those that succeed, what are the commonalities?
5. What does it mean to have a product-market-fit? How should founders be thinking about it?
6. What is the one piece of advice for the founders during these times? How would that be different under normal circumstances, if at all?

You can reach Artem via Linkedin or email him directly on [email protected]

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