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Balancing SaaS Growth and Profits to Maximize SaaS Company Valuation

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The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Price/Revenue Ratio. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Weighted Average. Profitability.

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The SaaS Financial Model You’ll Actually Update (Updated 2019)

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Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.