2014 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey – Part 1
For the third year in a row, we worked together with Pacific Crest Securities, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 306 SaaS companies. This represents nearly double the # of respondents from last year, …
SaaS Metrics 2.0 – Detailed Definitions
Intro
This page is a supplement to the the SaaS Metrics 2.0 blog post. It provides detailed definitions for each of the key metrics used in that post.
Métricas SaaS 2.0 – Definiciones detalladas
Traducido por Alberto Peralta.
Introducción
Esta página complementa el artículo Métricas SaaS 2.0 – Guía para medir y mejorar lo que importa. Proporciona la definición detalladas para cada una de las métricas principales que se que se usan …
SaaS Metrics 2.0 – A Guide to Measuring and Improving what Matters
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin
This article is a comprehensive and detailed look at the key metrics that are needed to understand and optimize a SaaS business. It is a completely updated rewrite …
SaaS Dashboard Example – For annual contracts using ACV
This page is a supplement to the SaaS Metrics 2.0 blog post that provides a comprehensive study of the key metrics to understand and optimize a SaaS business. It is designed to be read in conjunction with that post.
You …
SaaS Inside Sales: What you need to know
The Bridge Group have recently published a report titled:
Inside Sales for SaaS
Metrics and Compensation Report for B2B technology companies
The report is based on a survey of 197 B2B technology companies, and covers topics such as:
- Ramp
SaaS Economics – Part 2: Scaling the Business
This is the second part of a 2 part series that discusses the cash flow trough that happens to SaaS, or other subscription/recurring revenue businesses when they decide to scale their business by ramping sales and marketing. These kinds of …
SaaS Economics – Part 1: The SaaS Cash Flow Trough
This post provides SaaS entrepreneurs with an Excel spreadsheet model and graphs that show the cash flow trough that happens to SaaS, or other subscription/recurring revenue businesses that use a sales organization. These kinds of SaaS businesses face a cash …
2013 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey
We worked together with Pacific Crest, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 155 SaaS companies on a variety of topics such as growth rates, CAC (cost to acquire a customer), gross margins, churn …
SaaS Metrics – A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters
This blog post looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal …
Pacific Crest’s 2011 SaaS Survey
Pacific Crest, an investment banking firm with a strong focus on SaaS, has surveyed a 70 SaaS companies with very interesting results. There is some great data on topics such as growth rates, cost of customer acquisition, churn/retention, expense models, …
One of the Best Business Models: Recurring Revenue
This post is part of my series An Analysis of 5 Business Models.
Recurring revenue is the business models that I prefer. It has the benefits of being highly predictable over time, and reducing the stress of having no …
