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The median average contract length is 1.3 years. The median billing term is seven months in advance. These results are very comparable to 2015, with average contract length shortening from 1.5 to 1.3 years and average billing period increasing one month over 2015 to seven months.

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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”

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More than 1/2 of SAAS companies increased their spending on customer retention last year

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

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The fastest growing SAAS companies averaged $250k in MRR and were only losing around 3.2% of that revenue each month to churn

Account Churn Rate (ACR) = customers at beginning of month – customers at the end of month / customers at beginning of month

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”

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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

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