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The Essential SaaS Metrics for Growth

ConversionXL

Software and online-services companies can quickly become billion-dollar giants, but the recipe for sustained growth remains elusive. But only 400 software companies have made it to the $500M revenue mark. Somehow, at that time, we were paying for three different analytics software. The nuts and bolts of measuring SaaS growth.

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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. They have no understanding or patience for extra steps and delays caused by bureaucratic processes, disengaged employees, complex networks, or software usability problems. Less is more.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

Currently, there’s the universal dependence on specialized software and computers to keep companies operating, and more offices are transiting into paperless working spaces. Securing financial transactions requires the best virtual data room software to replace the traditional physical data rooms. The importance of a data room.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

Square filed its S-1 several weeks ago and is now in the middle of its IPO road show process. A bunch of articles came out saying that Square had “priced” their IPO below last round and this was something terrible ranging from the bursting of a tech bubble to the coming of the apocalypse. Revenue Composition.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet).

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