SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Jason now has 5 investments at $200m+ ARR that are all cash-flow positive (which is necessary today), and there’s one clear trend he’s seen in today’s new efficient world: The New Normal is 700 Employees at $200,000,000 in ARR (or $300,000 per employee) at the average public SaaS company. “Don’t hire the broken.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2022

But the FOMO to invest in minutes, to skip due diligence, to take more risk that was fueled by the stock market rise for Cloud and SaaS stocks in 2020 and 2021 … well that does appear to be mostly gone. And the best deals, even in tougher times, will often have more folks that want to invest than room on the cap table.

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Payrix

APRIL 3, 2024

Well, you’ve come to the right place. This blog post will shed light on the risks associated with adding payments to your software, and ultimately, help you determine what payment model makes the most sense for your unique vertical and business strategy. Striking a balance will be instrumental to success.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

These are Strange Times Indeed in SaaS and Cloud. The best SaaS companies from Datadog to Snowflake to HubSpot to Salesforce are growing faster than ever, even past $1B or more in ARR. And most importantly, any new investors and leaders will reach out to them for diligence checks on how the company is doing. Just slower.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Capchase Co-Founder & CEO Miquel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford use data to show us what differentiates the best SaaS companies from the rest. The top SaaS companies are growing really fast, roughly at twice the rate of their peers. As a refresher, the rule of 40 is a measure of sustainable growth for SaaS companies.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 219

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Because there aren’t a lot of people that have built SaaS sales orgs from the groundfloor to success and scale. But do your due diligence. So if you can find someone who has all that, go get that person. You done yet? Most of you aren’t going to be able to hire that person. There are some. Just not a lot. Otherwise move on.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2021

What is the next big trend in SaaS (software as a service)? What types of due diligence are undertaken by VCs before investing in a company? What will SaaS companies look like in the future? What are average revenues (MRR or ARR) for SaaS companies at the time of the Series A? How much does a VC partner earn?

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2020

Will all do due diligence at least on how CEO is perceived, internally and externally. Are looking for inspirational leaders, especially in SaaS/B2B. The reality is VCs for the most part sort of care. What I can tell you 100% for sure is one you have even a small team, VCs: Will all look at your Glassdoor ratings. To partners.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Christoph Janz: So what does it take to raise capital in SaaS?

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

They were fast processes with little due diligence. The State Of The Fundraising Market Today The good news for this audience today is that SaaS is among the industries with the highest valuations. Fundraising Market Trends Over The Last 12 Months Markets in 2021 felt a bit like, “Shut up and take my money!” The reason?

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Each year, we do our best to provide you with valuable SaaS insights and share best practices through case studies, reports, webinars, and blog posts. In our last post of 2020, we wanted to share the most popular of these blogs and webinars with you. Top-Read Blogs of 2020. SaaS Cybersecurity Due Diligence.

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Scytale

JANUARY 30, 2024

Except, if you’re a SaaS company potentially working with Californians’ personal information, listen up! We discuss this at length in our blog CCPA vs. GDPR: Navigating Data Privacy Regulations for SaaS Companies , which is worth checking out. Understanding the CCPA Another day, another framework.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. If you decide to buy on Flippa, do your due diligence and put the listings under a microscope to make sure it’s legit to find those diamonds in the rough. Who Is It For? Key Features. Key Features.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio. How did David make his way into the world of SaaS? 2: Tien Tzuo, Founder & CEO @ Zuora Shares the $100m Question All SaaS Founders Must Ask.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 20, 2020

You’re facing a tidal wave of due diligence, financial audits, and legal wrangling. An obvious but important SaaS metric, especially if your customers are on monthly contracts. For example, if you own a SaaS startup, your buyer might be making a calculation as to whether it’s cheaper to buy your IP or duplicate it.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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Kraftblick

JULY 5, 2023

With the help of this tool, we can determine and set the schedule for publishing our blog posts as well as creating guest posts and articles for our clients. On the card we appoint a team member to perform the task and set a due date by which the work should be completed. Publishing (blog draft). To do list. Publishing (review).

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 14, 2022

BOSTON, June 13, 2022 – OPEXEngine, the world’s leading SaaS benchmarking platform, today launches its new R&D benchmarks solution. Our new solution extends the insights we already offer SaaS businesses and means that every technology organization’s leadership team can benchmark themselves to their peers and to market leaders.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 29, 2021

If you’re a long-time reader of our blog, you’ll know that we’re always happy to give people a peek into the P9 kitchen, whether it’s publishing our investment thesis , explaining the rationale behind specific investments , sharing our values , or just b? We wanted to stay focused and disciplined.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2022

R&D is the backbone of any SaaS company, yet to many CFOs, it is still a black box. These questions and more are ones that OPEXEngine is dedicated to helping to provide better answers to for software and SaaS companies. SaaS companies will need to be better prepared to meet these demands in due diligence, and in fundraising.

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The Angel VC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

I've been thinking about a "DOs and DON'Ts" article geared towards early-stage SaaS founders and upcoming SaaS founders for a little while now. I thought it would be a good idea to summarize what I've learned about SaaS in the last few years and put it into a format like this. So how does an attractive SaaS market look like?

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

OPEXEngine provides SaaS and Software companies with comprehensive and accurate analytics and benchmarks to help executives understand and improve operational performance. OPEXEngine is the leading SaaS benchmarking platform, used by SaaS vendors, investors, and service providers. About OPEXEngine.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

OPEXEngine, a worldwide leader in SaaS benchmarking, celebrates 1 year anniversary as part of Bain & Company with the release of its “BenchmarkEngine 2023” platform . BOSTON, October 6, 2022 – OPEXEngine, the world’s leading SaaS benchmarking platform, today marks its one-year anniversary as part of Bain & Company.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

SaaS platforms have to apply the law for user data. Humans ultimately need to stay accountable for automated data activities, and Law 25 imposes due diligence requirements around developing these activities responsibly with privacy in mind. That means retail chains must follow the rules for shopper information.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 20, 2020

You’re facing a tidal wave of due diligence, financial audits, and legal wrangling. An obvious but important SaaS metric, especially if your customers are on monthly contracts. For example, if you own a SaaS startup, your buyer might be making a calculation as to whether it’s cheaper to buy your IP or duplicate it.

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Acquisition Startup Technical Review Scale 52

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Top SaaS CEOs Talk Compensation, Automation, and Investors. No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. The post Customer Success is Changing: Top SaaS CEOs Reveal What’s Ahead appeared first on ChurnZero.

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Customer Success Technical Review Systems Review Compensation 93

Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

For better or worse, they have completely taken over the visual identities of many high-profile SaaS brands. i genuinely respect all of these companies and use these tools but saas websites are perpetually homogenous. Although we’re not alone—custom photography seems to be another growing design trend for SaaS brands.).

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Trends Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 111

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Aileen Lee: And so, they’re just way easier due diligence, I think. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. I’m here.”

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 166

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. So what can you expect for SaaS businesses next year? I think most SaaS startups haven’t seen the full effects of what you’re going to see. I’m trying to help them think through on the SaaS space.

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

That caught my attention and I thought I should learn more about the preconditions for early stage SaaS companies to receive such an overdraft within a few weeks with a contract less than five pages. We are very happy to have your SaaS company in our growing client list of maturing European SaaS players. Was that an exception?

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Technical Review Startup Banking Outsourced Development 73

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The first being due diligence. So much so that for every 1% increase in revenue retention , a SaaS company’s valuation increases by 12% after five years. Mergers and acquisitions. You want to stick to the high-level metrics they care about most: retention, expansion, and satisfaction. Customer retention.

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Customer Success Metrics Engagement Software Review 98

Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Valuations came down, structure regrettably came back , cashflow trumped growth, founder friendliness decreased, diligence generally flopped back from FOMO to FOFU, and companies again started to treat employees as, well, people they are paying to do work. The barbarians at the gate are back. Alternative facts. Improper framing. SEO is dead.

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AI Search Technical Review Technical Advisors ChatGPT 109

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. In today’s episode, we welcomed Alex into our offices to chat about his love for SaaS, the challenges of starting a business, and the future of data collection.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

For lead generation, digital marketing in the form of exclusive content can be a very effective tool, a blog can attract traffic by ranking high in Google and generate trust in itself from providing good content – and, of course, there is advertising. . What are PR peculiarities for SaaS companies?

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

And now it was about spend diligence, it was about people starting to work from home and how you enable them to understand your expenses in real time, not waiting a month or two months when they submitted it. And then really thinking a lot about our blog content and our SEO strategy, what do we do with not a lot of budget?

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Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 183

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Startups, especially SaaS startups, aim at achieving unicorn status. This blog will guide you about-. The same goes for a B2B SaaS startup as well. For starters, a B2B SaaS startup is a newly found company that offers SaaS products and/or solutions for other businesses. But how exactly did they achieve the status?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There are many SaaS pricing models in B2B that you can adopt. We will see these details in this blog. How is SaaS pricing different? Unlike traditional software pricing, SaaS based pricing models depend on subscription delivery model. How can the right SaaS pricing model help your business? Flat price.

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