Clouded Judgement

JULY 4, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.5x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 24.7x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 157

Cloud Investment Payment Features Subscription 157

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

million users (in total; I couldn’t find any MAU stats), PeerTube has 356K, and Pixelfed 255K. “Not everyone wants to use one product,” he said , “and I think making it so that they can use an alternative but can still interact with people on the network will make it so that that product also is more valuable.” 

Social Media 114

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 114

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 27, 2025

The use cases are new, the distribution channels are new, and the product categories are still forming. Whether it’s polishing a blog post, a product release, or anything else…Speed of execution and iteration is now becoming more important. Spinning up GTM before product-market fit is fully obvious. Then iterate.

Cloud 157

Cloud Sales Hiring Scale Investment 157

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 6, 2025

This “misuse of ARR” trend has accelerated in the age of AI, as business models have evolved (into more usage/success-based vs. seat-based), and everyone is tinkering with new AI products. For founders—make sure you know how your customers (and particularly your largest customers) define success/ROI from your product.

Cloud 144

Cloud Technical Review Software Review Technical Advisors 144

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Building ‘opinionated products’ and the importance of customer intimacy Lessons learned from scaling Twitter’s ad business from zero to $650 million in three years. Highlights: (5:22) The power of customer intimacy in product development. (15:41) 15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54)

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USIO

JUNE 19, 2025

In a recent academic paper published by Springer, researchers noted that: “Usage-based pricing models align a provider’s growth with customer success, increasing both revenue potential and long-term retention.” — SpringerLink, Software Product Management and Pricing Models In other words: more usage = more transactions = more revenue.

Payments 130

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 130

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

For many current large language models, once they are exposed to domain-specific challenges or niche inquiries—like in-depth product troubleshooting or compliance-related questions—they can stumble. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 6.6x Top 5 Median: 19.9x Bucketed by Growth. Mid Growth Median: 12.2x Low Growth Median: 4.3x

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

Clouded Judgement

JULY 11, 2025

Every call will feature a story about automation boosting productivity or opening new revenue. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.3x Equity inflows are modest and the VIX sits in the mid teens. There is cash on the sidelines. AI is a structural tailwind. Top 5 Median: 23.4x Bucketed by Growth. Mid Growth Median: 8.8x

Cloud 144

Cloud Marketing Scale AI 144

Buffer Resources

JULY 25, 2024

While LinkedIn doesn’t directly offer monetization features for newsletters, you can indirectly monetize by promoting your products, services, or affiliate links within your content. Visit the Newsletter tab on your profile to view these metrics. Can I monetize my LinkedIn newsletter?

Social Media 122

Social Media Engagement Metrics Strategy 122

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

My favorite tool for this right now is Speechify , which I included in my AI productivity tools list. Gather data and insights : Look for stats, studies, and other data to back up your ideas – they help boost your credibility to your reader and search engines.

AI Search 107

AI Search Social Media Systems Review Technical Review 107

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

It simply took too much time to start a competitor, build a product, build a brand, and compete. Now, you still had to go out and hire engineers to build the product, build out the GTM team to build brand and distribution, etc. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.6x The inertia was significant. There’s was lots of work.

Cloud 299

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 21, 2025

They build organically, but also acquired their way into new products and markets. With more recent cloud software companies, there was a lot of organic expansion - ie expanding into new markets and capabilities through internal product development. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.5x Slack is a great example.

Cloud 188

Cloud Payment Features Subscription Pricing 188

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 7, 2025

Maybe the most telling stat is that companies full year guidance is not coming in much higher than full year consensus estimates (on average). Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.6x In these moments of peak uncertainty, markets like staying on the sideline waiting for more clarity. The median full year guide is only 0.1%

Cloud 157

Cloud Forecasting Payment Features Subscription 157

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 13, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.4x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 23.1x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 144

Cloud Data AI Investment 144

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 6.4x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 24.0x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 144

Cloud Software Payment Features Subscription 144

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.3x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 23.3x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 157

Cloud AI Headcount Pricing 157

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript David Vogelpohl (FastSpring) (00:04) Hello everyone and welcome to Growth Stage by FastSpring where we discuss how digital product companies grow revenue, build meaningful products and increase the value of their businesses. you know, those types of stats are generally true.

Payments 164

Payments Mobile Payment Methods Revenue 164

Clouded Judgement

MAY 16, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.5x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 21.8x Bucketed by Growth.

Trends 144

Trends Cloud Payment Features Subscription 144

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. Otherwise, such processes would keep your staff’s hands full, and minimize productivity. To run a business is like trying to balance several stacked plates in your hands.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

Clouded Judgement

JULY 18, 2025

They’d announce a ton of new products on stage, and the initial reaction was always “Wow! What larger player just launched a competing product and is trying to bundle you away. Can you build a beautiful product experience, own a niche, and then EARN the right to expand. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.4x

Cloud 144

Cloud AWS ChatGPT AI 144

User Pilot

JULY 17, 2025

PLG email campaigns done right can bridge the gap between signup and product adoption. Unlike traditional marketing emails sent to everyone on a schedule, product growth teams create PLG emails responding to what users do inside your product. Every touchpoint pushes users toward actual product adoption. moment fast.

Onboarding 66

Onboarding Retention Engagement Churn 66

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This feature enables seamless knowledge-sharing across teams, allowing product, design, and customer support teams to collaborate on insights and quickly align on potential solutions. Inspect mode – that offers stats on users’ engagement with various page elements. The result? Fullstory review. Userpilot pricing.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Software Review AI 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2025

As product managers and onboarding specialists, you’re juggling a million priorities: feature adoption, activation milestones, reducing churn… And crafting the perfect email sequence that guides users to success? These stats can give you a starting point for deciding where to focus your initial onboarding efforts.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Benchmarks Engagement Data Analysis 52

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.6x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 17.3x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 167

Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167

User Pilot

JULY 10, 2025

I’ve tested a ridiculous number of SaaS products over the years, which means I’ve ended up in just as many onboarding sequences. For example, a weekly newsletter signup needs a different approach than an email campaign for a SaaS or eCommerce product. Valuable insights and amazing tips relating to your product/service.

Onboarding 76

Onboarding Scale Software Review Social Media 76

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we talk with Amber Hinds , CEO of Equalize Digital , about how SaaS and ecommerce companies can make their websites and products more accessible to people with disabilities while also improving SEO, reducing bounce rates, and expanding their market reach. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

Business 106

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 106

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2025

We’ve all seen the stats about AI boosting productivity 20-40%. The Bottom Line Canva’s betting that upfront investment in AI literacy will compound into massive productivity gains. For context, that’s more than most Series A rounds. For the rest of us: You don’t need a $15M training week.

AI 277

AI ChatGPT Headcount Software Review 277

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2025

The most telling stat? Focus on how your product creates value for potential strategic buyers—whether that’s expanding their addressable market, improving their unit economics, or strengthening their competitive moat. Diversify Your Revenue Streams Single-product companies are viewed as riskier in this environment.

B2B 250

B2B Software Review Acquisition Revenue 250

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Whether you're looking to improve your customer service , gather product feedback, or keep tabs on your online reputation, Mentionlytics could be a valuable addition to your digital marketing toolkit. In standard affiliate partnership deals, you only pay your partners when they refer a customer who buys your product.

Social Media 106

Social Media AI Search Marketing Business 106

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 6.3x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 22.2x Bucketed by Growth.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

OpenView Labs

APRIL 30, 2024

But first – some stats: Our Youtube monthly views grew from a consistent 5k each month in Feb to over 50k by December. Our product activation rate increased dramatically. We needed to find a way to get more people launching production AI assistants on Voiceflow in a self-serve way. Let me walk you through it.

AI Search 52

AI Search AI Scale Enterprise 52

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 26, 2025

Online Documentation & User Manuals: Easily build comprehensive product documentation or user manuals for your software or hardware products. Technical terms can be clarified with tooltips, lightboxes, or pop-ups (contextual help), giving readers a deeper understanding of your product.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Management 52

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Meanwhile, AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, Tidio, and the new Grok automate customer support and productivity. Integration: Built into Google products (Search AI Mode, Bard, Pixel devices).

AI Search 49

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Software Review 49

Neil Patel

JULY 11, 2025

A user persona is more than just a list of demographic stats. Pain Points and Challenges: There’s no shortage of products or services competing for your customers’ attention. When you identify barriers standing in your persona’s way, you can help position your product or service in a way that solves their problem.

Scale 66

Scale Construction Technical Review Software Review 66

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

She was the Director of Product Marketing at VMware prior to Gusto. Uh, before that was the director of product marketing at VMware. All of those workflows can now be brought into the product using AI. But we certainly always planned and did use AI in the product, but we’ve just been. So heck of a run there.

Scale 64

Scale AI Marketing Sales 64

Full Session

DECEMBER 23, 2024

ProProfs Qualaroo: Customer feedback collection and survey tool that provides targeted surveys, sentiment analysis, and A/B testing to gather user opinions and insights about your product. Look beyond basic stats watch live session recordings and see precisely how people engage with your site from start to finish.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Solutions Software Review Payments 52

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 17, 2025

Overall Stats: Overall Median: 6.3x The views expressed herein are the author’s alone and do not constitute an offer to sell, or a recommendation to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, nor a recommendation for any investment product or service. Top 5 Median: 19.1x Bucketed by Growth.

Cloud 144

Cloud Payment Features Subscription Revenue 144