High-growth companies generate 60% fewer sales opportunities than low-growth companies

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The lower Quick Ratio for these larger, more mature companies is further proof that the Quick Ratio looks quite a bit different when used to evaluate young SaaS startups and more mature, steady-state companies.

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The very best SAAS companies keep monthly revenue churn at around 0.58%, that’s only about 7% revenue churn a year

The top 50% of the fastest growing SaaS businesses generate much higher upsells than their competitors. The larger the business, the greater the impact of upselling

SaaS businesses face significant losses in the early years (and often an associated cash flow problem)

While field sales remains the most popular way to sell for companies >$2.5MM revenue, companies with <$2.5MM revenue tended to use inside sales as their primary mode of distribution

Internet Sales strategies have a significantly lower CAC of just $0.42

It’s 9x cheaper to retain existing customers than acquire new customers: costing $0.13 to acquire any additional dollar of revenue

When determining Sales Capacity, “it’s worth noting that some percentage of new sales hires won’t meet expectations, so that should be taken into consideration when setting hiring goals. Typically we have seen failure rates around 25-30% for field sales reps, but this varies by company. The failure rate is lower for inside sales reps. can be counted as half of a productive rep”

Revenue per employee has been steadily increasing in SAAS companies. It serves as a great longitudinal measuring stick to understand the increasing or decreasing efficiency of the business

The statistic shows the worldwide IT spending on enterprise software from 2009 to 2020.

Less than 20% of new revenue came from existing customers in the form of up-sell and expansion sales

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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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

SaaS businesses face significant losses in the early years (and often an associated cash flow problem)

Google only has a 30 percent female workforce

Customer’s lifetime value (LTV)= average revenue per user (ARPU) / monthly churn rate

Internet sales-driven companies have a much greater reliance on marketing, with 65% of the median company’s CAC budget devoted to marketing

The median annual unit churn for SAAS companies was 10% in 2016

A 1% increase in pricing strategy yields an average 11% increase in profit

If your Net Revenue Churn is high (above 2% per month) it is an indicator that there is something wrong in your business; this will become a major drag on growth

26% of SAAS companies with at least $15MM in 2015 GAAP revenue had a revenue growth rate + EBITDA margin of 40% or higher