As companies scale their growth engines, a slightly-above-average churn rate becomes harder and harder to offset with net new revenue growth, especially when the goal is to outpace it by 4x

Statistic Info

We wanted to find out, so as part of our 2016 Sales Benchmarking Report, we took a close look at the Quick Ratios of the high-growth SaaS companies in our study. We sliced the data in every conceivable way to see what we could uncover about the optimal Quick Ratio for growing SaaS companies, and how the SaaS Quick Ratio evolves as companies grow.

More SaaS & Tech Growth Strategy Stats

Because of the losses in the early days, which get bigger the more successful the company is at acquiring customers, it is much harder for management and investors to figure out whether a SaaS business is financially viable.

36% of SaaS businesses managed to reduce their revenue churn over the last 12-months

A 2017 SaaS Capital survey showed that young companies actually have higher retention rates than more mature SaaS businesses

86% of SaaS businesses treat “New Customer Acquisition” as their highest growth priority, both in terms of executive support and funding available

Analysed by contract value, field sales are primarily evident for companies with median deals over $25K. Inside sales strategies are most popular for companies with $1K-$25K median deal sizes

The best SaaS companies achieve 5-7% annual revenue churn – equivalent to a loss of $1 out of every $200 each month

In 2018, the revenue of General Dynamics amounted to nearly 36.2 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2017, Foxconn Technology Group achieved a net income of 135.37 billion New Taiwanese dollars, the equivalent to approximately 4.55 billion U.S. dollars.

Analyzed by contract value, field sales are primarily evident for companies with median deals over $25K. Inside sales strategies are most popular for companies with $1K-$25K median deal sizes

In 2018, the market size of information technology outsourcing amounted to 62 billion U.S. dollars.