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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

I realized It has been a decade since I’ve updated revenue-per-employee metrics. Compare that to the benchmarks in 2013! In 2013, the average revenue per employee of these companies totaled $200k. Company RPE 2013, $k RPE 2023, $k CAGR CRM 325 375 1.4% In addition to the dated charts! VEEV 200 880 15.9%

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Salesforce Ventures: Only 150 Private SaaS Companies Have Hit $100,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In the latest SaaStr Workshop Wednesday (sign up for FREE here ), Jessica Bartos of Salesforce Ventures did a great deep dive on the state of SaaS and venture in 2013. One metric stood out to me I hadn’t seen presented before: just how many private SaaS companies (i.e., The full session is below and it’s a great watch.

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Cloud and SaaS Are Up 1000%, Now Worth $2 Trillion

SaaStr

We’ve used various bits of the BVP Nasdaq Index and metrics since they launched a few years ago to highlight trends in SaaS and Cloud. since 2013. SaaS and Cloud are up +1000% since 2013. This week even after a pullback, public SaaS and Cloud companies are up an eve 1000% (!) But does it even matter?

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Eating My Own SaaStr Dogfood: Why I Invested in a Start-up With a Seeming 50+ Competitors

SaaStr

One of the earliest posts I did on SaaStr was back in 2013 when I made my first venture investment, co-leading the seed round in Pipedrive. From 2013: I was asked on Quora why I recently invested in Pipedrive. I’ve talked about this more here: Why Lead Velocity Rate (LVR) Is The Most Important Metric in SaaS.

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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 Where it Went: IPO’d in 2013, hit $250m ARR by 2016, a cquired for $1.8b in 2011 GAAP revenue. $14.2m

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

Tom Tunguz

in 2009 revenue to 2013 revenue of $71M - an 88% CAGR. I've estimated $113M in revenue for 2014 by extrapolating their first six months of revenue this year and applying the 2013 growth rate to it. Field 2011 2012 2013. In 2013, with the big bump in CAC, HubSpot’s net income as a percentage of revenue fell.

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

Tom Tunguz

Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014. Xero does exhibit an amazing sales efficiency metric of 1.05, meaning $1 invested today in sales and marketing yields $1.05 Xero didn’t break out its engineering spending in its financials until 2013. Growth 109% 265% 206% 123% 107% 88%. Gross Profit -0.8 -2.0