SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Capchase’s dataset is comprised of roughly half bootstrapped companies and half VC-backed companies, so there will be some differences in benchmarking from what you see from the VC firms. One, when you have really high gross margins, your cost base actually increases much slower than your revenue base. So how do they get there?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Use benchmarks to monitor your performance to see how well each stage converts. The journey in SaaS encompasses numerous ‘micro-conversions’—pivotal actions a user undertakes from signup to final payment. But, the ultimate goal for any SaaS business is to translate this perceived value into actual revenue.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal. A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. Increase monthly recurring revenue.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). ARR is an essential subscription metric that identifies the recurring revenue expected on an annual basis from the subscriber base. ARR = (Overall subscription per year + recurring revenue from add-ons or upgrades) – revenue lost from cancellations.

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Baremetrics

JULY 30, 2021

Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more. Baremetrics on the other hand monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. Userpilot onboarding, analytics , and feedback features can help you reduce CAC and boost revenue. Let’s get right to it! Book the demo to see how! Book the demo to see how! What is CAC payback?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

Fiscal Policy Fiscal policy involves the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to influence a country's economy. Government spending takes many forms, including investment in infrastructure, provision of social services, and transfer payments like social security and unemployment benefits.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. Subscription payments are smaller and cash flow is reduced initially, but once a base of recurring revenues is established, it can generate a great deal of cash flow. Distribution costs, ie.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For example, you need to calculate the growth rates for monthly recurring revenue (MRR), active customers, average revenue per user (ARPU), and more. Growth rates in population Growth rates in personal financial savings Growth rates in business What is the Growth Rate Formula? Is the amount of revenue increasing?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To get the most out of the time and money invested into their apps, Shopify App Developers need to track the core metrics of their industry. What is a business metric? Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1. Table of Contents. What is Baremetrics?

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

The owner’s equity is used to obtain investment loans or when selling a company as an investment. Connect Baremetrics to your revenue sources and start seeing all of your revenue on a crystal-clear dashboard. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenue now.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. OPEXEngine benchmarking data reveals an interesting trend. By contrast, slow-growth companies reported 20% revenue from international business in 2020. But scaling your business in the right place is critical. Company Maturity.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Here is a simple way to calculate your total expenses from income, revenue and equity. Net Income = End Equity – Beginning Equity Total Expenses = Net Revenue – Net Income. Its recorded Total Revenue is $1,500,000. From revenue alone, the company appears to have nearly doubled its profit.

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BrightBack

JUNE 30, 2020

Now Brightback makes it easier for any subscription business to replace static exit surveys and outdated call centers with personalized online experiences that deflect up to 30% of cancels. 2020 is a watershed moment for customer retention. The past decade of abundant VC capital and vanity metrics couldn’t last forever.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In the simplest terms, capital efficiency means growing profitably , without overinvesting to land customers and drive revenue. For example, a 1:1 capital efficiency ratio means you’re earning one dollar for every dollar you invest into company growth. Revenue per Employee. That’s a revenue treadmill.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

After analyzing data from over 2,100 SaaS startups to publish the SaaS Benchmarks Report 2023 Sid is full of insights on the topic at hand. Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine SaaS products are often first on the chopping block when companies affected by shrinking revenue look to slow their burn rate.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 10, 2020

Gross margin is a metric that measures your profits as a share of revenue. A higher gross margin or gross margin rate means that you have a highly profitable business. Gross Margin = Revenue – Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). Typically, gross margin is quoted as a percentage of revenue. Gross Margin Benchmark.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It becomes the system of record, even more so today than the CRM or the back-end ERP, because it has the most real-time, accurate, and up-to-date information on the revenue lifecycle. Measure what matters and invest appropriately. When in hypergrowth, the focus is and should be on revenue growth with healthy unit economics.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Retain subscribed customers: Unlike other businesses, SaaS businesses rely on customers paying monthly or yearly for their subscription. Subscription businesses rely on recurring revenue from subscribers, so retaining dedicated customers is crucial to keeping your business alive. ProfitWell Metrics. Accounting.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve-month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. All of the sales and marketing dollars invested to obtain persuade the buyer to put digital ink to pdf have been recouped immediately.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. One industrial company, for instance, makes account assignments in a cloud-based sales planning platform.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. I mean, just take a look at all these different surveys: A 2018 KBCM Technology Group survey reported a median annual revenue churn rate of 13.2% Image via Recurly.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

They’ve moved down your marketing and sales funnel and have finally invested in your software. . Because the plan is to retain and grow the recurring revenue from these customers for many years to come. Retention is baked right into the foundation of the SaaS business model. What’s next? Will you let them be on their own?

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Price/Revenue Ratio. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Many factors drive the high-growth of SaaS companies, including higher market adoption of SaaS and the structural advantages of the recurring subscription revenue model – see Why SaaS Companies Grow Faster. Deferred Revenue = Deferred Profits.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Creative software is still Adobe’s core, but the company is now a leader in market analytics and web development technology, and it is currently investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. It also involves adopting a new mindset.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? What data you need to get the investment in your Customer Success team. This is also annual payments only. The compounding effects that churn has on your bottom-line.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users. Indie.VC - Indie.VC

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Weaker demand, slower sales cycles, and customer insistence on pricing concessions and payment deferrals have conspired to cloud the outlook for many tech companies’ growth. For certain businesses, COVID-19’s impact on revenue was immediate. Forecasting Growth in a Pandemic: A Difficult Job Just Got Harder.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. You have PE platform roll-ups.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

You may be too busy reacting to the crisis to think about recovery at this moment, but research shows you will want to act before the crisis ends if you want the fastest recovery. Recent survey data from Global Research shows there is an expectation of -20% hit to the 2020 professional services revenue forecast. Conclusion.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Tracking SaaS renewal rates enables predictable revenue, aiding financial planning and resource management for future growth. Effective renewal strategies enhance customer retention , drive revenue , and build a loyal base for long-term SaaS success. It supports MRR growth and provides consistent access to your users.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Here are the 5 Financial Reports businesses can start analyzing to make better business decisions. It essentially takes all your income, revenue, or sales, and subtracts your expenses. There are three core sections to a cash flow statement – operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After nearly going under twice due to cash flow issues, she finally cracked the code for success, transforming her business from a $20,000 loss in December of 2020 alone to achieving $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just two years later. Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

acceptable funding parameters and risk metrics) by using upfront, non-performance driven data such as revenue, time in business, and minimum FICO. Loan servicers are responsible for collections, where they auto debit gross principal and interest payments from a bank account and wire them to the lender.

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