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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

Tomasz Tunguz and David Skok – they were publishing a lot of content around SaaS metrics and these kinds of things. Take HubSpot, for example: over the last five years, they’ve grown their app marketplace from 40 to 350 integrations. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces.

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The Best SaaS Articles of 2016 From Around the Web

Hitenism

SMB-focused companies often find growth by going upmarket. In 2017, companies will find success by getting back to basics and focusing on the “service” part of Software as a Service. In a self-service SaaS, you rely on customer success drip emails to generate your upgrade revenue. Sales has become a saturated channel.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Doing a product for SMB is fairly simple. Tiago Paiva: Oh yeah.

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An Inside Look at My Digital Marketing Agencies Around the World

Neil Patel

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.