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Doubling Down: Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Check that out here. Why did you do the deal?

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Benchmarking Consumer and SaaS Companies' Path to IPO

Tom Tunguz

Consumer companies on the whole tend to grow faster and do so will less spending on sales and marketing, and research and development than SaaS companies. Enterprise/SaaS companies in the sample achieved very small revenue in their second year and grew consistently through year 8, at which point there’s a decline.

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Customer Advocacy: How to Get Your Customers and Customer Success Team Invested

ChurnZero

Customer Advocacy: How to Get Your Customers and Customer Success Team Invested. If you work for a SaaS business, you know word-of-mouth marketing is everything. Director of CS at Convercent, which operates in the ethics and compliance space, also uses access as an incentive in lieu of material gifts.

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3 ways SaaS CFOs can prepare for hypergrowth in 2022

OPEXEngine

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Measure what matters and invest appropriately.

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SaaS Security Best Practices for Leading Cloud Software Companies

Audacix

SaaS security related data breaches through cybercrimes are not a new thing in the digital world. The same problems affect companies that rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. SaaS providers are constantly releasing security patches to make their applications more secure. However, cybercriminals also don’t sleep.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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Going Global: Key Considerations to Drive SaaS Success Abroad

OPEXEngine

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Why Go Global? Market Dynamics.