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What Are Public SaaS Companies Taken Private At? 7.7x ARR On Average Per SaaSomomics

SaaStr

Well, certainly it exploded in 2021, in my portfolio at least, if perhaps not as dramatically as in the public markets. The startup I invested in that were acquired by PE in the 2020-2021 Boom were acquired for 8x in one case, 12x in another, and 15x in a third. So what do they pay on average? What did he find? is interesting to see.

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The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge (Podcast #498 and Video)

SaaStr

It’s 2021, but surprisingly, a significant number of SaaS companies still use outdated sales compensation plans. Pothole #5 – Prioritizing Revenue Acquisition Ahead of Customer Value Creation. Email * The latest SaaStr updates straight to your inbox. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. When should you scale?

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5 Major Product Marketing Trends to Watch In 2021

OpenView Labs

The report’s authors already laid out how to get back to hyper-growth , and their article inspired me to share my predictions for 2021’s most important product marketing trends: 1. Here’s why: PLG is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, retention, and expansion.

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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

As investors, we keep a close eye on customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback. We use it as an indicator that a company has the right fundamentals in place to effectively ramp up customer acquisition. AWS and other infrastructure providers have been using UBP for nearly a decade. The takeaway.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). It’s like, “We could work on acquisition costs,” which we did. Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This one is niche, but it’s interesting, not doing mergers and acquisitions sooner. You changed the name to ZoomInfo after that acquisition.

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

What’s new in ChartMogul in 2021? This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. Overall, in 2021, we logged and resolved 10,007 tickets with an average first response time of 20 minutes. To add to that, our uptime for 2021 (for both the App and the API) was an impressive 99.95%. So let’s dive in.