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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. And I’d been a user since 2006. My Background.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. ► 2006. (7).

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking The Code: Laughing Out (c)Loud

Cracking the Code

But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. ► 2006. (7). Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies

Cracking the Code

Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. ► 2006. (7). Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. A more accurate benchmark would then be to divide the incremental GM (annualized) in a given quarter by the S&M expenses of the previous quarter.

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