Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). And we’re patient.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. The net impact of all this is that any conversation about price without the other pieces will never yield full success. The importance of price. Let’s break this down.

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Differentiation Virginia .Net B2C 54

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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