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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

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“Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS” Egnyte Chief Customer Officer and Co-Founder Rajesh Ram (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re over 600 employees, and we’re currently privately backed, and you could see the list of a lot of our venture capital backers who have some common Silicon Valley names. They are like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures. First off, the land, this is your typical initial sale.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

There are a number of funding types that serve the SaaS business model, including: Venture Capital: The glamour means of procuring funds for your startup, venture capital is provided by firms or funds that see high growth potential or a strong track record of recent growth in a SaaS company, enough to merit substantial financial assistance.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. Focus on a market segment until you dominate it When I arrived at Buildium, we were selling our product only to residential property managers located in the United States. You read that right—two!