OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Online accounting software provider Xero, for example, was founded in 2006 and now trades publicly at a 22x Enterprise Value to TTM Revenue multiple. Contrast this success with that of Intuit, which launched the desktop app QuickBooks in 1998 and its online version in 2004 (before Xero launched). Formidable Competitive Advantage.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I would argue that retention is probably the most important of these categories, so the first thing to note is that retention is really going to differ, depending on your market segment.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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