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How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round

SaaStr

More here: [link] The post How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round appeared first on SaaStr. At least if you do raise VC capital, understand the chart above very well. It also means the next round is often even harder that most founders realize.

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Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count

Tom Tunguz

Revenue, Revenue_USD, Revenue_new, rev2, customer_revenue. Imagine the customer success team asks for a revenue chart in their CRM: it’s as easy as siphoning the data from MetricsFlow via a API call. Do you recognize these? They might be the column names you might find in your BI or analytics tool. Which is the one to use?

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. Many investors laugh (and some rightly so) at the fact that software companies’ valuations are often described as a multiple of revenue.

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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

I realized It has been a decade since I’ve updated revenue-per-employee metrics. Revenue per employee spans approximately $200k-$900k. In 2013, the average revenue per employee of these companies totaled $200k. In 2023, these companies added about $37k in revenue per employee, but the range spans $18-71k.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face.

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My App Stack: Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer of AgentSync

SaaStr

This week we have Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer at AgentSync! #1. During Robby’s tenure as CRO, AgentSync has grown revenue 27x, raised over $150M, and was most recently valued at $1.2B. The post My App Stack: Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer of AgentSync appeared first on SaaStr. What’s your core stack of apps today?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $6.8 Billion in Revenues

SaaStr

That’s not just pretty epic growth at almost $7 Billion in revenue, it’s one heck of a comeback. But a Smaller and Smaller Percentage of Revenue. Overall subscription solutions revenue is up just 21%, while payments and merchant solutions are up 35% — from a much, much larger base. #2. A tough transition.

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The Path to Payment Control: How SaaS Companies Can Maximize Enterprise Value

For software company executives, maximizing revenue, profitability, and enterprise value is of utmost importance. A key factor in achieving these goals is having a solid integrated payment strategy in place — one that allows for control, ownership, and leverage over customer relationships and payment service contracts.

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How Do SaaS Companies Fit Into the Payments Revenue Food Chain?

Ever wondered who gets a share of that 3% credit card transaction fee? This guide explains how that fee is divvied up and how SaaS companies are becoming a more important player (gaining a larger share) by embedding payments into their solution.

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Take Payments Without Losing The Profits

If you are a vertically focused software company and hate giving up a big piece of your revenue pie to third parties, explore becoming a payment facilitator. Transform your business by increasing your revenue share, taking control of your merchant’s experience, and owning your risk management decisions.

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go. By becoming a Payment Facilitator, you gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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More Freedom. Because It's Hard to Control Payments When Your Payments Provider is Controlling You.

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, they will have to determine how much of a role they want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain they want to go. By becoming a PF, they gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. When it comes to your revenue and customer loyalty, don't be reactive, be proactive. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.

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PayOps Fact Sheet

Infinicept's PayOps™ platform helps your business onboard and manage merchants so you can generate payments revenue, control your customer experience, deliver an improved product, and increase valuation. Why integrate payments into your platform, and how does Infinicept help?

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The Power of Conversation Intelligence

This eBook will answer all your questions and more by providing a complete overview of Conversation Intelligence and its importance in Revenue organizations, delivering impact from your Sales Development Representatives all the way to the C-Suite. Who in the Revenue organization benefits from Conversation Intelligence.