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If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 35, you used to be tech industry’s most coveted prize. You were the one who decided what products failed and what products succeeded. That’s why companies like Asus tweet ridiculous, sexist stuff. That’s one reason why less than 10 percent of venture capital-backed companies have female founders and there is a massive gender gap in tech. The technology industry’s focus on men is reflexive and all too intuitive to the men who run the companies. And it’s built on a plain wrong reading of the reality of the market.

The Atlantic

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Between the SMB and Enterprise customer types, the top-quartile performers not only have net-revenue churn that is 14% to 23% percentage less than the average performers but also have net-revenue churn that is negative in an absolute sense

93% of CMOs who employ Agile practices say their speed to market for ideas, campaigns, and products has improved93% of CMOs who employ Agile practices say their speed to market for ideas, campaigns, and products has improved

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

High-growth companies offer a return to shareholders 5 times greater than medium-growth companies

Gross dollar churn among companies with an internet go-to-market strategy saw a meaningful increase, up from 8% in 2015

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

Three uses for the SaaS Guidelines

Companies that spend more on sales and marketing (as a % of revenue) generally grew at a faster rate than those that spent less

The very best SaaS businesses have a negative revenue churn rate and will have a Revenue Retention Rate of greater than 100%

For a SaaS business of almost any scale, the valuation impact of better retention is in the tens of millions over time

More Culture Stats

The boom in the industry is creating more jobs for techies. Data reveals there were 627,000 unfilled positions in tech in April 2017

63 percent of the time, women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company

Google only has a 30 percent female workforce

At Twitter, 10 percent of tech roles are staffed by women

Women-led companies have historically performed three times better than those with male CEOs

in 2016, women-led companies received $1.46 billion in investments from venture capitalists. Male-led companies, on the other hand, received $58.2 billion

A University of Texas study showed that women ask for $7,000 less than their male counterparts in job interviews

The venture-backed companies that were acquired most often had a 7 percent share of female execs, as opposed to 3 percent at unsuccessful (unacquired) firms

47% of millennials want to work at diverse companies, according to a recent study.

It’s been reported that women who work in computer and mathematical fields earn 80 cents to the dollar that men earn doing the same job