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5 Interesting Learnings from Cloudflare at ~ $1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

We watched those metrics closely throughout Q2 and saw them all at least stabilized. They’re not where we throw a parade yet, but the metrics are trending in the right direction.”. Still, with such strong demand, any lengthened sales cycles didn’t show up in the epic numbers and growth rate. #5.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

About Brian… Our metrics suggest that our attendees were very excited about Brian as a speaker. His high marks in our “speaker likes” metric lands him at number five on our list. About Karen… Karen is number seven on our list with high marks in all metrics. SaaStr’s Most Respected Leader Awards Number: 9 to 5.

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Do SaaS Startups Still Require Less Capital than 10 Years Ago?

Tom Tunguz

In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). The era after 2006 and through the 2008 financial crisis was a different time to raise capital. In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed.

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The Latest 2023 Napkin Reveal: What it Takes to Raise Capital with Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

So, what happened is most of the craziness from 2020 and 2021 has been erased, yet we’re not back to the nuclear winter of fundraising in 2008. Companies need to pay more attention to factors like: Burn multiple CAC efficiency The most important metric right now is likely the burn multiple.

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The Disappearance of the Fundraising Demo

Tom Tunguz

We should call them metrics days. The fundraising pitches of 2008 highlighted leading indicators of success: the product, the vision, the team. The fundraising pitches of 2008 highlighted leading indicators of success: the product, the vision, the team. Today, we concentrate on lagging indicators of success: metrics.

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Benchmarking AppDynamics S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2008, AppDynamics is a leader in the application performance management space. Let’s look at some of the key metrics and then compare AppDynamics to NewRelic, a close competitor which went public in late 2014. AppDynamics technology helps engineers determine how software applications behave as users interact with them.

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

rates them on 3-Year Growth – a slightly strange metric for start-ups at all different stages), for SaaS and SaaS-ish startups: [note, the higher they are on the list, the faster they are growing on a % basis YoY]. #7 Generally, audited or reviewed financials must be submitted, so I assume they are in the ballpark of correct.

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