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The Real Story Behind B2B SaaS Growth Today: What Maxio’s Data from 2,400+ Private Companies Tell Us

SaaStr

We’re seeing echoes of 2008-2009, where nimble startups thrived during the downturn. Small Companies Are The Surprise Winners Here’s something counterintuitive: sub-$1M ARR companies are actually accelerating right now. “Must-Have” Is The New “Nice-to-Have” The fastest growth?

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

Tom Tunguz

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? Startups going public from 2006-2009 showed a median ROIC of 0.42. It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed. In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). of revenue at IPO.

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What Really Happened to SaaS in the ’08-’09 Recession

SaaStr

But as a history lesson, let’s use my own startup Adobe Sign / EchoSign to see what happened in ’08-’09 … the worst global recession any of us have ever seen. in May 2009 … but then returned to normal 2% by 2010: #4. But even by July 2009, it had returned to normal once we worked through a cycle of churn.

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Jacob's Ladder in the Startup Fundraising Market - How Startups Today Skip a Round of Fundraising

Tom Tunguz

Median round sizes have increased from 2009 dramatically across seed and Series A-C. In the chart above, I’ve drawn dashed lines from the values in 2009 across the graph. The dashed blue line is the median series A from 2009. Seed rounds have not surpassed 2009 Series A levels. Two blocks of the ladder have flipped.

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Most Likely, It’s Not The Market. It’s You.

SaaStr

For 90% of startups, if you’re struggling right now … sure blame the market. Even when the global economy literally melted down, and >froze< in 2009 — the buyers in SaaS still came. If you’re selling to struggling startups, that’s a challenge today. It’s You. But buyers still came.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tom Tunguz

Startups feel this way today. All this took patience: Amazon’s share price exceeded the dot-com high Oct 23, 2009, a decade later. We’re a company that wants to be weighed, and over time, we will be—over the long term, all companies are. In the meantime, we have our heads down working to build a heavier and heavier company.

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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

If you’re a seed-stage startup, Michael shares the best ways for you to present your company to startup investors. It’s 2009, and the Obama Inauguration is happening in town. They could talk about how they were starving startup founders who couldn’t pay their rent. That’s it. Every hotel room is fully booked.