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Just look at customer acquisition vs retention statistics. What if I am starting out a business and don’t even have leads, not to mention SaaS customer acquisition strategy? And don’t forget that buyer persona-focused and well-designed packages can deeply affect your prospects and encourage them to make a buying decision faster. How to avoid mistakes while implementing your SaaS customer acquisition strategy? Are all mistakes equal? MORE
Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore. MORE
How to think about costs in your customer acquisition strategy. If all you care about is optimizing for customer acquisition, you might think all five ads were created equal and allocate your budget accordingly. Pure customer acquisition metrics are popular, but dangerously inexact tools for calibrating and scaling your company growth. What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? How Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) works day-to-day. MORE
Presumably, the company traded investments in growth for profitability to service the new debt. trailing twelve months, the third highest multiple for large software acquisitions. In fact, relative to acquisitions of software companies growing at similar rates, at $4.75B, Third, the multiple expansion in the SaaS market continues, and it’s incredible. About two years ago, Marketo was publicly traded and valued at roughly $1.1B. Vista Equity paid $1.8B MORE
For the purpose of this example, we will ignore segmentation effects, while remarking that they are often the source of tremendous insight regarding exactly where CAC dollars should and should not be invested.) Let’s continue the example: MidChurn invests $5k to acquire a customer that produces $7k / year in re-investable contribution margin. Q: How does my CAC recovery time affect the rate at which I can grow, without taking on any outside capital? MORE
Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built. MORE
Without a serious investment in your company’s customer success , your customers will inevitably grow frustrated with the customer experience. Typically, companies use it to determine their customer acquisition strategy —the higher your CLV is, for example, the more you can feel comfortable spending on marketing, sales, branding and incentives. A higher CLV enables you to invest more in customer success, which increases your CLV. Customer success drives customer acquisition. MORE
The SaaS metrics gurus express this as customer acquisition cost (CAC) relative to customer lifetime value (LTV). Think of customer acquisition like a machine A former colleague explained the concept to me like this. SaaS companies are trying to build a customer acquisition machine. MORE
Quovo had focused on investment accounts and allowing you to programmatically interact with your investment accounts through third-party applications. Zach : And so as we were having this conversation, we did, of course, raise a little bit more money in that round in order to enable the acquisition. People ask if we had an acquisition strategy, we definitely don’t. The hook for this year, the acquisition strategy of fintech, is going to be around high yield. MORE
There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. So I have thought for a really long time, and I wrote a book about this, but the more I think about how to drop the cost of user acquisition, the more clear it becomes to me that it’s not about the typical model that people have in their mind when they’re thinking about this, and the typical problem set that people are trying to solve. MORE
An acquisition can make or break your startup. Take IBM’s recent purchase of RedHat to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, or Salesforce’s acquisition of Mulesoft to coordinate, unlock, and integrate customer data better than any competitor. As a former M&A attorney and serial SaaS founder myself, I’ve experienced acquisitions from every point of view. Always always always check to make sure you have clean rights to an acquisition target’s technology. MORE
The seed stage investment market feels like it’s changing quickly. These firms raised between $5 and $75M to invest in seed stage companies. In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. Year Number Total Invested, $M Average Round Size, $k. 2014 saw 18% fewer investments, but an equal amount of investment at $1.3B. MORE
For most SaaS companies, the customer acquisition costs will be the single largest on-going expense for their business. It's useful only in relation to costs, especially customer acquisition costs. Different prices means different acquisition costs Different prices do tend to require different approaches and customer acquisition costs vary accordingly. MORE
It would be foolish to tell you that every CRO and CFO I talk to agrees with me in saying that SDRs are a no-brainer investment. Most companies are intrigued by the potential of SDRs, but cautious when investing the necessary resources to build a proper team. MORE
A common topic we talk about is customer acquisition and how competitive it’s becoming; how most channels are saturated and how it’s challenging to find leverage in those channels to scale beyond your competitors. We interviewed some of the smartest minds in search to discuss what investments companies should make in the upcoming year if they want to grow their search traffic. An investment in a full stack search team can accelerate your growth. MORE
Inspired by Paul Graham’s “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund” post of a few years ago I’d like to start a series of posts about ideas that I find exciting and that we at Point Nine would be very interested in investing in. That means low customer acquisition costs which, combined with a good revenue model, are a killer. MORE
Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. SaaS Investments: Pipefy, HeyDoctor. Canary invests in Brazilian startups, aiming to transform the country’s startup ecosystem by filling an early stage funding gap that it has identified. SaaS Investments: Gupy, idwall, meetime, Qulture rocks, Social Miner, and Teravoz. A.B.Seed Ventures is a VC fully focused on B2B SaaS investments. MORE
Having lived through several acquisitions during my career in technology companies, I have some idea of what the folks at SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP last year) and Taleo (acquired by Oracle a few weeks ago) are going through. One reason behind the acquisitions of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies is the high cost of sales and marketing. Even well-established SaaS companies typically pay 40 percent or more of their annual revenue on customer acquisition. MORE
Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Here’s what Jason and Ryan talk about: Why did Qualtrics turn down a $500M acquisition offer in 2012? Brand experience, measuring people’s brands, employee experience, it’s been $10 billion in acquisitions in that space and we’re kicking butt. MORE
Public companies use cash for many different things including share buybacks, investments in their own businesses, insurance, working capital and so on. Growth is king in today’s public markets. Most of the SaaS IPOs we’ve analyzed have traded growth for profitability and they have been rewarded handsomely for it. For the large tech companies, this trend is no different. The public market prizes growth. MORE
All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. To help you understand and improve your customer acquisition, we asked SaaS leaders within and outside of Intercom to reveal their top customer acquisition tactics. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition. MORE
Thanks so much everyone for joining us for our fireside chat today, disrupting the desk phone: how and why we made a $50 million acquisition. We are an enterprise-focused VC fund in New York, and we invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and it’s both a privilege and a blast to be here with one of our WorkBench portfolio companies, DialPad with Craig Walker, founder and CEO, and Dan O’Connell, chief strategy officer and former CEO of Talk IQ. MORE
4x entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki shares how you can better prepare yourself for your startup's acquisition, and make the journey a rewarding one. Every stage of the startup acquisition process – and I mean every stage – is a negotiation. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). MORE
Major capital investments fell 55% in Q3. Last, M&A activity seems quite brisk with more than 30 $1B+ billion acquisitions in the last nine months alone. How do all these factors commingle to influence today’s acquisition environment? 2016 is on pace to match the past three years of software acquisition trends which vary from $64B-$70B. However, in 2016 the total number of acquisitions will likely fall by 40% from an average of 150 per year to 92. MORE
First, venture capitalists invested nearly $1B of capital in the IoT in 2013, more than 3% of all VC investments by dollars. And third, Nest’s sale to Google last week set the high water mark for IoT acquisitions, measured at more than $3B , firmly establishing the category as a strategic imperative for the world’s largest technology companies. MORE
These are two fantastic benefits with meaningful return-on-investment. But great customer success organizations can meaningfully impact another critical part of the customer lifecycle, customer acquisition, by catalyzing evangelists to refer new customers. Thanks to Bill Macaitis , current CMO at Slack and former CMO of Zendesk, who inspired and co-authored this post. MORE
Specifically, it illustrates the need for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to spend money - lots of it - on customer acquisition. times more on customer acquisition than annual revenues, and in 2007 it spent nearly 18 times more than annual revenues. Though the cost of customer acquisition relative to annual revenues has declined steadily, on-going customer acquisition expenses will continue to keep Workday in the red for some time. MORE
Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. You have a face transition, you have a mini brand, and then you have a brand, and then once you have a brand investing in it, it actually is more important than we realize. It’s worth every ounce of investment. MORE
A few months ago we wrote about Zoominfo’s acquisition of Datanyze in an effort to strengthen its sales intelligence engine. This acquisition also further validates a key theme we mentioned a few months back with the previous acquisition: we’re continuing to head into a heavy period of sales stack consolidation and more mergers and acquisitions are going to happen amongst players. If you’re an investor, do you still invest in tools like these? MORE
The acquisition frenzy continues in SaaS. In the 2016 acquisition market, the median acquisition multiple is 7.8x The LinkedIn acquisition in particular is a strategic move by Microsoft. With the acquisition of LinkedIn’s data set, Microsoft will have an opportunity to both continue to grow the existing business by selling it through its channels, differentiate its CRM product, Dynamics, and offer a sales productivity tool in Sales Navigator. MORE
You’ll fail without investing in Facebook Ads,” one article claims. Attempting to drive growth on multiple user acquisition channels divides your resources and dilutes your focus. To do that, begin by mapping your existing user acquisition channels (if any) so that you can proceed with an approach that’s right for your audience, your resources and your business’s current stage. Why You Need to Map Your User Acquisition Channels. Finding Your User Acquisition Channels. MORE
I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth? I enjoyed that weird dynamic of trying to impress them and get them to invest in my company. billion acquisition more so than GitHub. MORE
Most SaaS businesses begin their journey down the SaaS metrics path by tracking recurring revenue in relation to customer acquisition costs. SaaS profit = current customers x ( avg recurring revenue – avg recurring cost ) – new customers x avg acquisition cost. Is it possible to apply SaaS customer success metrics to customer acquisition? SaaS customer acquisition is merely SaaS prospect success. This third post examines their use in SaaS customer acquisition. MORE
The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). What is the Customer Acquisition Cost? CAC stands for customer acquisition cost. MORE
How much should a SaaS startup invest in sales and marketing at different stages of the business? Sales and marketing investment depends on many different factors including establishing product market fit, the business’s sales model (inside, field, freemium), and not least, cash balance and fundraising capacity. The chart above shows the sales and marketing investment of publicly traded software companies at different revenue levels. MORE
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
There’s no need to indulge a divisive customer retention vs. new customer acquisition dynamic. Customer Retention vs New Customer Acquisition: The Common Goal. Optimize Customer Acquisition and Retention. Optimizing both customer acquisition and retention begins with identifying how each can aid the other. Working Together to Convert Interest into Investment. Customer Retention vs. New Customer Acquisition: Making the Most of Both. MORE
When was the last time you invested money into Customer Acquisition? Tracking Customer Acquisition can solve all […]. Cet article Tracking Customer Acquisition in SaaS est apparu en premier sur Pierre Lechelle. Are you a CMO? Today? When was the last time you felt confident spending one dollar because you’d get back 10 dollars? And I’m not speaking about extrapolating LTV. I’m speaking about real LTV on a specific customer. MORE
In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. I’m Sameer Dholakia, CEO of now Twilio SendGrid as of Friday after our completed acquisition. You got a lot of overhead, and there’s all these regulations, and you got to do these earnings calls, and invest in investor marketing. MORE
Just look at customer acquisition vs retention statistics. What if I am starting out a business and don’t even have leads, not to mention SaaS customer acquisition strategy? And don’t forget that buyer persona-focused and well-designed packages can deeply affect your prospects and encourage them to make a buying decision faster. How to avoid mistakes while implementing your SaaS customer acquisition strategy? Are all mistakes equal? MORE
Or on the other hand, invest too little money in a channel that has the potential to bring in many more customers than it does right now. The best way to improve your customer acquisition is to have a set strategy – one where you know how you’re going to generate demand, what you’re spending on these efforts and how you’re going to convert visitors into paying customers. What is customer acquisition? Customer acquisition starts with your product. MORE
Chart Mogul
AUGUST 20, 2020
4x entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki shares how you can better prepare yourself for your startup's acquisition, and make the journey a rewarding one. Every stage of the startup acquisition process – and I mean every stage – is a negotiation. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC).
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
An acquisition can make or break your startup. Take IBM’s recent purchase of RedHat to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, or Salesforce’s acquisition of Mulesoft to coordinate, unlock, and integrate customer data better than any competitor. As a former M&A attorney and serial SaaS founder myself, I’ve experienced acquisitions from every point of view. Always always always check to make sure you have clean rights to an acquisition target’s technology.
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Chaotic Flow
MAY 6, 2014
Most SaaS businesses begin their journey down the SaaS metrics path by tracking recurring revenue in relation to customer acquisition costs. SaaS profit = current customers x ( avg recurring revenue – avg recurring cost ) – new customers x avg acquisition cost. Is it possible to apply SaaS customer success metrics to customer acquisition? SaaS customer acquisition is merely SaaS prospect success. This third post examines their use in SaaS customer acquisition.
Pierre Lechelle
OCTOBER 18, 2016
When was the last time you invested money into Customer Acquisition? Tracking Customer Acquisition can solve all […]. Cet article Tracking Customer Acquisition in SaaS est apparu en premier sur Pierre Lechelle. Are you a CMO? Today? When was the last time you felt confident spending one dollar because you’d get back 10 dollars? And I’m not speaking about extrapolating LTV. I’m speaking about real LTV on a specific customer.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. So I have thought for a really long time, and I wrote a book about this, but the more I think about how to drop the cost of user acquisition, the more clear it becomes to me that it’s not about the typical model that people have in their mind when they’re thinking about this, and the typical problem set that people are trying to solve.
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SaaStr
APRIL 25, 2019
Thanks so much everyone for joining us for our fireside chat today, disrupting the desk phone: how and why we made a $50 million acquisition. We are an enterprise-focused VC fund in New York, and we invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and it’s both a privilege and a blast to be here with one of our WorkBench portfolio companies, DialPad with Craig Walker, founder and CEO, and Dan O’Connell, chief strategy officer and former CEO of Talk IQ.
Incredo
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Just look at customer acquisition vs retention statistics. What if I am starting out a business and don’t even have leads, not to mention SaaS customer acquisition strategy? And don’t forget that buyer persona-focused and well-designed packages can deeply affect your prospects and encourage them to make a buying decision faster. How to avoid mistakes while implementing your SaaS customer acquisition strategy? Are all mistakes equal?
Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Specifically, it illustrates the need for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to spend money - lots of it - on customer acquisition. times more on customer acquisition than annual revenues, and in 2007 it spent nearly 18 times more than annual revenues. Though the cost of customer acquisition relative to annual revenues has declined steadily, on-going customer acquisition expenses will continue to keep Workday in the red for some time.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. You have a face transition, you have a mini brand, and then you have a brand, and then once you have a brand investing in it, it actually is more important than we realize. It’s worth every ounce of investment.
Incredo
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Just look at customer acquisition vs retention statistics. What if I am starting out a business and don’t even have leads, not to mention SaaS customer acquisition strategy? And don’t forget that buyer persona-focused and well-designed packages can deeply affect your prospects and encourage them to make a buying decision faster. How to avoid mistakes while implementing your SaaS customer acquisition strategy? Are all mistakes equal?
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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
MARCH 5, 2012
Having lived through several acquisitions during my career in technology companies, I have some idea of what the folks at SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP last year) and Taleo (acquired by Oracle a few weeks ago) are going through. One reason behind the acquisitions of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies is the high cost of sales and marketing. Even well-established SaaS companies typically pay 40 percent or more of their annual revenue on customer acquisition.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Presumably, the company traded investments in growth for profitability to service the new debt. trailing twelve months, the third highest multiple for large software acquisitions. In fact, relative to acquisitions of software companies growing at similar rates, at $4.75B, Third, the multiple expansion in the SaaS market continues, and it’s incredible. About two years ago, Marketo was publicly traded and valued at roughly $1.1B. Vista Equity paid $1.8B
Inside Intercom
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
How to think about costs in your customer acquisition strategy. If all you care about is optimizing for customer acquisition, you might think all five ads were created equal and allocate your budget accordingly. Pure customer acquisition metrics are popular, but dangerously inexact tools for calibrating and scaling your company growth. What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? How Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) works day-to-day.
Inside Intercom
JULY 13, 2018
All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. To help you understand and improve your customer acquisition, we asked SaaS leaders within and outside of Intercom to reveal their top customer acquisition tactics. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
A few months ago we wrote about Zoominfo’s acquisition of Datanyze in an effort to strengthen its sales intelligence engine. This acquisition also further validates a key theme we mentioned a few months back with the previous acquisition: we’re continuing to head into a heavy period of sales stack consolidation and more mergers and acquisitions are going to happen amongst players. If you’re an investor, do you still invest in tools like these?
Chart Mogul
OCTOBER 3, 2019
The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). What is the Customer Acquisition Cost? CAC stands for customer acquisition cost.
Inside Intercom
MARCH 19, 2019
Or on the other hand, invest too little money in a channel that has the potential to bring in many more customers than it does right now. The best way to improve your customer acquisition is to have a set strategy – one where you know how you’re going to generate demand, what you’re spending on these efforts and how you’re going to convert visitors into paying customers. What is customer acquisition? Customer acquisition starts with your product.
OpenView Labs
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
A common topic we talk about is customer acquisition and how competitive it’s becoming; how most channels are saturated and how it’s challenging to find leverage in those channels to scale beyond your competitors. We interviewed some of the smartest minds in search to discuss what investments companies should make in the upcoming year if they want to grow their search traffic. An investment in a full stack search team can accelerate your growth.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth? I enjoyed that weird dynamic of trying to impress them and get them to invest in my company. billion acquisition more so than GitHub.
SaaStr
MARCH 11, 2019
Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Here’s what Jason and Ryan talk about: Why did Qualtrics turn down a $500M acquisition offer in 2012? Brand experience, measuring people’s brands, employee experience, it’s been $10 billion in acquisitions in that space and we’re kicking butt.
Totango
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
There’s no need to indulge a divisive customer retention vs. new customer acquisition dynamic. Customer Retention vs New Customer Acquisition: The Common Goal. Optimize Customer Acquisition and Retention. Optimizing both customer acquisition and retention begins with identifying how each can aid the other. Working Together to Convert Interest into Investment. Customer Retention vs. New Customer Acquisition: Making the Most of Both.
The Angel VC
APRIL 4, 2013
Inspired by Paul Graham’s “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund” post of a few years ago I’d like to start a series of posts about ideas that I find exciting and that we at Point Nine would be very interested in investing in. That means low customer acquisition costs which, combined with a good revenue model, are a killer.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
How much should a SaaS startup invest in sales and marketing at different stages of the business? Sales and marketing investment depends on many different factors including establishing product market fit, the business’s sales model (inside, field, freemium), and not least, cash balance and fundraising capacity. The chart above shows the sales and marketing investment of publicly traded software companies at different revenue levels.
Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
AUGUST 11, 2012
For most SaaS companies, the customer acquisition costs will be the single largest on-going expense for their business. It's useful only in relation to costs, especially customer acquisition costs. Different prices means different acquisition costs Different prices do tend to require different approaches and customer acquisition costs vary accordingly.
OpenView Labs
JUNE 13, 2019
Without a serious investment in your company’s customer success , your customers will inevitably grow frustrated with the customer experience. Typically, companies use it to determine their customer acquisition strategy —the higher your CLV is, for example, the more you can feel comfortable spending on marketing, sales, branding and incentives. A higher CLV enables you to invest more in customer success, which increases your CLV. Customer success drives customer acquisition.
SaaStock
JANUARY 30, 2019
Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. SaaS Investments: Pipefy, HeyDoctor. Canary invests in Brazilian startups, aiming to transform the country’s startup ecosystem by filling an early stage funding gap that it has identified. SaaS Investments: Gupy, idwall, meetime, Qulture rocks, Social Miner, and Teravoz. A.B.Seed Ventures is a VC fully focused on B2B SaaS investments.
Tomasz Tunguz
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Major capital investments fell 55% in Q3. Last, M&A activity seems quite brisk with more than 30 $1B+ billion acquisitions in the last nine months alone. How do all these factors commingle to influence today’s acquisition environment? 2016 is on pace to match the past three years of software acquisition trends which vary from $64B-$70B. However, in 2016 the total number of acquisitions will likely fall by 40% from an average of 150 per year to 92.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Quovo had focused on investment accounts and allowing you to programmatically interact with your investment accounts through third-party applications. Zach : And so as we were having this conversation, we did, of course, raise a little bit more money in that round in order to enable the acquisition. People ask if we had an acquisition strategy, we definitely don’t. The hook for this year, the acquisition strategy of fintech, is going to be around high yield.
Ramp Ventures
MARCH 16, 2017
You’ll fail without investing in Facebook Ads,” one article claims. Attempting to drive growth on multiple user acquisition channels divides your resources and dilutes your focus. To do that, begin by mapping your existing user acquisition channels (if any) so that you can proceed with an approach that’s right for your audience, your resources and your business’s current stage. Why You Need to Map Your User Acquisition Channels. Finding Your User Acquisition Channels.
A Smart Bear
JANUARY 4, 2018
Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 12, 2016
The acquisition frenzy continues in SaaS. In the 2016 acquisition market, the median acquisition multiple is 7.8x The LinkedIn acquisition in particular is a strategic move by Microsoft. With the acquisition of LinkedIn’s data set, Microsoft will have an opportunity to both continue to grow the existing business by selling it through its channels, differentiate its CRM product, Dynamics, and offer a sales productivity tool in Sales Navigator.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 1, 2015
The seed stage investment market feels like it’s changing quickly. These firms raised between $5 and $75M to invest in seed stage companies. In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. Year Number Total Invested, $M Average Round Size, $k. 2014 saw 18% fewer investments, but an equal amount of investment at $1.3B.
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Public companies use cash for many different things including share buybacks, investments in their own businesses, insurance, working capital and so on. Growth is king in today’s public markets. Most of the SaaS IPOs we’ve analyzed have traded growth for profitability and they have been rewarded handsomely for it. For the large tech companies, this trend is no different. The public market prizes growth.
Cardin Partners
JULY 7, 2017
For the purpose of this example, we will ignore segmentation effects, while remarking that they are often the source of tremendous insight regarding exactly where CAC dollars should and should not be invested.) Let’s continue the example: MidChurn invests $5k to acquire a customer that produces $7k / year in re-investable contribution margin. Q: How does my CAC recovery time affect the rate at which I can grow, without taking on any outside capital?
Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
AUGUST 1, 2020
The SaaS metrics gurus express this as customer acquisition cost (CAC) relative to customer lifetime value (LTV). Think of customer acquisition like a machine A former colleague explained the concept to me like this. SaaS companies are trying to build a customer acquisition machine.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 2, 2016
Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built.
SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2019
In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. I’m Sameer Dholakia, CEO of now Twilio SendGrid as of Friday after our completed acquisition. You got a lot of overhead, and there’s all these regulations, and you got to do these earnings calls, and invest in investor marketing.
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 17, 2014
These are two fantastic benefits with meaningful return-on-investment. But great customer success organizations can meaningfully impact another critical part of the customer lifecycle, customer acquisition, by catalyzing evangelists to refer new customers. Thanks to Bill Macaitis , current CMO at Slack and former CMO of Zendesk, who inspired and co-authored this post.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 20, 2014
First, venture capitalists invested nearly $1B of capital in the IoT in 2013, more than 3% of all VC investments by dollars. And third, Nest’s sale to Google last week set the high water mark for IoT acquisitions, measured at more than $3B , firmly establishing the category as a strategic imperative for the world’s largest technology companies.
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