2017 AWS Startup 
SaaStr
JANUARY 26, 2023
While the data ends here, here’s what I can tell you I am seeing in growth rounds today: Very few growth rounds are happening at all When the do happen, they are for capital efficient startups growing > 50% at scale And … the peak valuation is about 15x. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. For the best ones.
SaaStr
MAY 6, 2022
Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. The point is that SaaS multiples are still higher than where they were from 2010-2017. Draw a straight line and assume multiples gradually expand at the same rate as they were growing from 2017-2019. A related post here.
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Clouded Judgement
JUNE 19, 2024
My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. net retention and CAC payback). Subscribe now What Happened in Q1?
Baremetrics
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Given you probably just finished closing your books for 2017, it’s a good time to introduce changes to plan for the coming year. After all, as a startup founder, you want to have a solid idea of what your true gross margins are and what it actually costs to acquire a customer! The main accounts are: Cost of Revenue.
Chargify
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. Salesforce is another great B2B example. Change Is Inevitable.
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2022
Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. Want to know what to expect at SaaStr Europa?
Chart Mogul
OCTOBER 18, 2019
This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. He identified the 3 main stages that startups go through: The Early stage which ends when a startup becomes a breakout success.
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