I read Trish Bertuzzi’s book ‘The Sales Development Playbook’ and it was by far one of the best sales books I’ve read in a while. The book focuses heavily on building pipeline with SDR teams. This is the second post of a few I’m going to share about this book: there was so much good…
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That’s an aggressive title for a blog, but the data shows it may be true. We looked at the quarterly revenue growth of 47 tech companies before and after the recession and remarkably, the sector performed pretty well. Below is the data. Software. Only 4 companies showed real YOY drops during the…
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One SaaS metric we monitor closely is net dollar retention. It tells you what percent of revenue from current customers you retained from the prior year, after accounting for upgrades, downgrades, and churn. Formulaically it’s beginning of period revenue + upgrades – downgrades – churn all divided by beginning of period revenue. If that formula…
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Price Intelligently put out phenomenal content on how to price your SaaS product. A link to the full report is at the end of this blog and it’s well worth the read. Below are our biggest takeaways. Don’t use competitors’ pricing as your basis. “the biggest downside of competitor based pricing should be obvious….
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Someone wants to buy your business? Awesome. Before you spend a bunch of time with the acquirer, below are the details you’ll need to know. Much of the language is taken verbatim from a bid instruction letter that one of our investment bankers supplied us with. Purchase price and form of consideration. The…
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Trish Bertuzzi’s book ‘The Sales Development Playbook’ is by far one of the best sales books I’ve read in a while. The book focuses heavily on building pipeline with SDR teams. This is the first post of a few I’m going to share about this book: there was so much good information that putting it…
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We looked at the revenue trends of 146 tech companies prior to their IPO and discovered that while fast growth in the year of IPO is critical, so is consistent growth from the prior year. In other words, tech companies that exit have very consistent year over year growth, not just fantastic growth in the…
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We looked at the revenue growth of 146 tech companies prior to going public to see how fast you need to grow prior to IPO/exit. Data is below. The “S1 filing” is the year the company filed their S1; an S1 is like a prospectus every company must file prior to going public…
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We had the chance to speak with Jay Chapel, founder of ParkMyCloud, which exited to Turbonomic in May 2019. Learnings from his journey are below. Your original idea will change. Initially, Jay and his team set out to build a cloud platform that was completely self-service across AWS, Azure, and all the major cloud…
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We looked at the equity raised of 89 SaaS companies that have gone public; according to that data, it takes $132mm of equity to get to a big exit (IPO). All data was pulled from s-1’s, which is a securities filing made before going public. The data as well as a few observations are below….
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