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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

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It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies

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I found this approach interesting, but it seems to me that gross margin is a more relevant benchmark than revenues, given that the GM of saas companies varies by type of application and size of the company (for example NetSuite went from about 50% GM three years ago to close to 70% today).

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

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Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

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Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. The recession created opportunities! New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp.

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

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and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

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This strong recovery has highlighted the resiliency of the recurring revenue model in a downturn as well as the stength of the shift to soaftware-as-a-service and cloud computing. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer. VC lifestyle.