SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. For years, the standard was “about 10x” Top tier SaaS companies would tend to raise at around 10x ARR, with ones with slightly lower growth often raising at 5x. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dive Brief: Usage-based pricing has grown 32% this year and now 45% of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies use it all or in part, up from 34%, an OpenView survey shows. The survey is based on responses from 600 SaaS companies. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Please join me on October 13th at SaaStock EMEA , a free European SaaS event, for my presentation entitled “ How to Make a Marketing Machine ” on October 13th at 9:05 am PT (6:05 pm CET). Executives from companies including Algolia, AWS, Celigo, Contentful, Freshworks, Intercom, Yellowfin, Zephr, and Zoominfo.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. How long can this last?

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

The Venture Capital sector has seen substantial expansion in recent times and some VCs have started to podcast and share valuable resources for entrepreneurs, other investors, and those interested in learning more about the industry. The podcast is perfect for anyone interested in startups, venture capital, and technology.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Last year, the message was that it’s harder, so what is the theme for many SaaS companies this year? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares his take on the current SaaS landscape midway through 2024 and what might be coming next in 2025 at the opener to this year’s SaaStr Europa. The post Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. You need to marry your go-to-market strategy to specific commercial structures that you, as a SaaS company, decide to offer your customers. Of course, we all know how that turned out.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Or the five questions that really never get put to bed in growing a SaaS start up. At Aster Data, which is big data, Granular, AgTech SaaS, Nuxeo content management, Alation data catalogs. ” Right?

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way. How the hell does that happen?

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Let’s start with probably the most familiar scenario - I was working at a tech company, with top tier venture capital investors. One is a monthly company update, the other provides tips on growing early stage SaaS businesses. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. Want to receive our emails?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. And even back in 2006 SaaS was not what it is today. I’ll just do a quick introduction.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. My whole career, quite literally, lay in front of me.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2022

So this was a Truly Terrible, Very Bad, Just Plain Awful year for SaaS IPOs — and IPOs in general. The downstream effects on venture capital and more are still to come. A related post here : The post 2022: A Cr*p Year for SaaS IPOs. The IPO window is closed. Shut, mostly. since 2021. At least, not.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2020

Oracle Squares Up to AWS with Cloud Cost Calculator. 4: The Era of the SaaS Decacorn is Here. We take a look at why and how we have 20+ SaaS decacorns right now … even as our economy overall is deeply challenged. #5. Not all SaaS industries are benefitting. #10: It Could Have Been $22 Billion Today.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” There were all these software companies and then the advent of all these SaaS application companies like Salesforce and Workday that were breakout successes.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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