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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

In its first year of selling, the company generated $800,000 in revenue. At this point in time, Ariba generated 56% of its revenue from professional services, which dramatically depressed because margins. in sales and marketing efforts in the years before generating more than $200 million in revenue. Then it ramped. $8

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Pricing for SaaS Enabled Marketplaces - When to Go Free

Tom Tunguz

They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. SEMs can generate revenue in four ways: charge the buyer and/or supplier a software fee & charge the buyer and/or supplier a marketplace fee. From our research most SEMs charge between 5-15% of gross merchandise sales in rake.

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The Best Goal Setting Frameworks

Tom Tunguz

It’s their focus that enables startups to move quickly, one of their key competitive advantages in the market. Absolute goals are things like revenue, users, employees – numbers that in a fast-growing company are monotonically increasing. Relative goals are things like market share or app rankings. They work well.

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The Early Winners in the Consumer Hardware Wave

Tom Tunguz

We’ve examined the tremendous revenue growth GoPro experienced in a previous post. As the chart above shows, FitBit grew from $14M to $76M to $271M to $745M in revenue in four years, generating astounding growth rate of 170% per year. And the company invests less in Research and Development.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Benchmarking Netsuite's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

In the last ten years, Netsuite has grown revenue from $18M to $556M. Netsuite’s revenue per customer averaged $19k in 2008, and $23k in 2009, the last years for which the company provided customer counts. Netsuite keeps about 14% of revenues as cash. Net income as a percentage of revenue is steady at around -15%.

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Benchmarking Xero's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

There’s a SaaS company on the other side of the world founded nine years ago that is worth $2B, generates $100M in annual revenue and growing 80% year over year. of Revenue -611% -257% -80% -41% -37% -50%. The company reached $62M in revenue in year 7. Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.