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Behind the Round with SaaStr: Qualified.com Raises $12m Series A

SaaStr

Bootstrapping allowed us to preserve optionality, and we ended up selling the company to Campaign Monitor and subsequently to SurveyMonkey in 2019.”. Also, the larger the company, the more they care about enterprise-level trust, security, compliance, and privacy. This is evident in the metric of “net new sales pipeline created.” .

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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Kellblog 2021 Predictions

Kellblog

Numbers wise, the average Series A was up 16% in size over 2019 at around $15M, but early-stage venture investment was down 11% over 2019. Net dollar retention (NDR) becomes the top SaaS metric , driving companies towards consumption-based pricing and expansion-oriented contracts. Since I’m being charitable today, HIT.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

SMM vs. Enterprise SaaS Metrics. This section on SaaS metrics drives home the importance of differentiating between Enterprise and Small/Middle Market metrics. The ROI of these marketing campaigns are tracked with metrics such as email open rates and ad click-through rates. An SMM SaaS Company Example: AVALARA.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Fundamental metrics (like ARR, CAC Payback, or Burn Rate) will never stop being important; they’re industry standards for a reason. Looking back vs. looking forward. Marketing Lead Gen. Key takeaways.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Today, Lyft ($LYFT) has 5,000+ employees, operates dozens of offices around the globe, and went public on March 28, 2019. While there are various metrics and KPIs they will be tracking, there’s one underlying theme — growth. “ Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified. Founded in 2011.

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The Rule of 40 — Down, But Not Out!

Kellblog

Neeraj Agrawal and Logan Bartlett of Battery Ventures recently published the 2019 version of its outstanding annual software round-up report. And, despite my headline, well in compliance with the Rule of 40. In 2012, the explanatory power of both metrics doubled. The four eras of software evolution.