SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2021

These sessions from SaaStr Annual 2021 provide a window into what approaches best-in-class marketers in SaaS are taking today: . Intriguing Session Slides: Marketing SaaStr Session #4: “Why Intent is the New Lead: 2021 State of Marketing Technology ?with Customer Success Sessions at SaaStr 2021. Scaling Sessions at SaaStr 2021.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I was honored recently to be a part of another great RevTech Summit 2021 , an online summit for marketing and sales professionals who want to set themselves up for success in 2021; hosted by ChatFunnels. And I think that’s changing the attributes of what a successful marketer looks like in 2021 and beyond.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2021

Revenue growth accelerated from 32% to 41% * And new customer growth accelerated to a crazy 45% YoY * All while keeping ACVs constant at ~10k. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) May 6, 2021. HubSpot keeps adding new core products to fuel growth. The post HubSpot’s Growth Accelerates to 41% at $1.1B

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

For years, the standard was “about 10x” Top tier SaaS companies would tend to raise at around 10x ARR, with ones with slightly lower growth often raising at 5x. Per Pitchbook and IVP, top-tier growth rounds had a 114x ARR ask at the very peak in 2021! It Was 114x in 2021. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Martech

MAY 18, 2023

growth in 2024, the forecast said. Digital ad spend saw a dramatic rebound in 2021 following the initial wave of the COVID pandemic — when it saw growth of 37.6%. CTV’s projected growth for 2023, however, is 21.2% — nearly triple digital’s growth. growth in retail media search. Digital slice of the pie.

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Martech

JULY 28, 2022

Mobile gaming spend will climb from $120 billion in 2021 to $136 billion in 2022. That’s saying a lot when, in the US, we saw console gamers grow by 21% year-over-year in 2021. The post Mobile leads growth in the expanding in-game advertising industry appeared first on MarTech. This makes mobile gaming advertising 3.2

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. In 2021-2022, software companies could easily raise vast amounts of money and win vast numbers of customers.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

In 2021, there were many more high-spending e-commerce days in November than in 2020. The post Prime Day contributed to significant e-commerce growth this year appeared first on MarTech. The biggest discounts offered by e-commerce sellers during Prime Day were toys (15% discount) and apparel (12%).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With no more funding coming, and growth way down. Well, the best in SaaS and venture and Cloud are not just still growing at epic rates, but they’re acquiring so much funding … they can still run the 2021 playbook. But of those 200, maybe 50-100 can still run the 2021 Playbook. So can you pay less these days?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

There’s a lot of great data in the report, but one analysis helped answered a question I’ve been wondering the past 12-18 months: Are start-up actually more overvalued today than at the peak of Cloud mania in 2021? Because valuations are as high as ever, and yet … public software multiples are far, far, far lower than 2021.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2024

And as stock prices rip higher, growth VC floods back in. As is growth, in some cases. It’s 2021 but all over again, and different But in SaaS overall, the growth playbook hasn’t totally worked out on the last 4 SaaS IPOs. But overall, the growth investments weren’t big wins. It’s natural.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And broader Cloud players had great years too, from MongoDB to Cloudflare to Azure, if not quite as crazy as at the peak of 2021. Now, plenty of SaaS leaders saw Q2’23 in particular as their low point, and saw growth reaccelerate at least a smidge from there. Altimeter: SaaS Growth Has Finally Rebounded.

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Force Management

JUNE 22, 2023

During 2021 alone, 537 new Unicorns were minted. But once they've reached the coveted Unicorn status, how do companies maintain performance and continue their steep growth trajectory? By 2020, there were over 600. Today, there are over 1250. There is no roadmap for becoming a Unicorn, but there are common threads.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2022

growth from 9.8% These 2023 estimates have been boosted just from October 2021 as well as from April 2021. But the growth rate in 2022 (9.8%) is down from 2021 (15.9%), and down from earlier estimates (11.5%). for the growth rate for 2022. All of IT spending is predicted to grow at a healthy 5.5%

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 5, 2021

He was awarded the accolade of BESMA UK Sales Director of the year and was listed in the top 50 Sales Keynote speakers by Top Sales World in 2019 & 2021. Ian has led large and small sales teams and built sales teams of 4 organisations through growth to exit. He explores how the medium is as critical as the message itself.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Median Revenue Multiples and Growth Rate is Down This chart is similar to the previous one but without the 10-year rate. Now, a light blue line shows the median consensus NTM growth rate for that same 100 software companies. By comparison, the median growth rate for these businesses from 2015-2017 was 27%. Why is that?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. In the chart above, showing the growth from $2M to $20M, you can see what product market fit looks like. Building an Experimental Team They started a growth team at Braze that Spencer manages.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With customer and revenue growth hitting new highs in Q3, Semrush achieved its first profitable quarter since Q1 2021. Also: 20% growth in customers who pay more than $10,000 annually. That ends a stretch of nine straight quarters posting a net loss. Semrush’s third quarter revenue was $78.7 million) from 2022.

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Martech

APRIL 8, 2022

trillion from 2021 to 2025, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% — substantially above the 5% CAGR from 2015 to 2019. They accounted for 53% of the spend in 2021 and are expected to drive 73% of dollar growth between now and 2025. Other key findings: IT software and services will be the biggest dollar growth driver.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2022

Cloud spending is still expected to grow even faster in 2022 than 2021 , from 18.4% growth in 2021 and expected growth of 22.1% And on a related note, CMO marketing budgets are still up across the board.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

A great session for any founders and execs thinking about moving out of SMB and into larger deal sizes: She then became COO at rocketship, HubSpot, overseeing its incredible 50% year-over-year growth at $1.3B Grew total customers to 121,048 at June 30, 2021, up 40% from June 30, 2020”. HubSpot Reports Q2 2021 Results [link].

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

— Jon Ma (@jonbma) March 27, 2021. But it’s definitely a Cloud company that benefitted from the dramatic growth in Cloud of the past 5+ years. Customer count growing 33%, revenue growing 65% — the “Golden Ratio” for future growth. Technology partners and SIs are key to growth. seed round.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth. As an industry, we’ve assumed all profitability comes at the expense of growth, but that’s just not true. Can it have a meaningful impact?

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

That seed rounds peaked in March and have been falling even since, and activity is now half of what it was then: It’s just one data point, but it ties to the generate observation that seed rounds took a little longer to slow down than growth rounds did … but slow down they have. It is what it is. It is what it is. Just be aware of it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2021, everyone bought 100 new sales and revenue apps to keep the sales engine humming, along with large investments on the human side of RevOps, Customer Success, and more. Today, SaaS and growth are back, but its a new SaaS: We want our sales team to just work with the tools and platforms they already have. Unless it leverages AI.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

Started 10 years ago as “Freshdesk” and a low-end / SMB helpdesk to rival Zendesk, Freshworks has since expanded its product footprint across IT management (Freshservice) and CRM (Freshsales) to a stunnning 49% growth rate at $350m in ARR. And even bigger customers now are driving the fastest growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Here's the thing about venture right now Seed stage remains vibrant, similar to any of past 5-6 years Series A and later has gotten over 2021, and is back in market … but … Has moved back to Default No Pacing is far slower because of it — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) March 19, 2023 So folks in venture are back to business.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’ve all experienced budget, growth and efficiency pressures amidst the challenging economic outlook. In this article, we’ll identify some of the common blind spots advertisers are currently experiencing in three specific areas: Performance Max (PMax), managing Cost Per Clicks (CPCs) and affiliate growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

. – $234M rev (+67% YoY) vs $212M consensus (10% beat) – $247M next Q guidance vs $225M consensus (10% raise) – Last Q YoY growth was 51% – >130% net retention – 7 months GM adj. — Jamin Ball (@jaminball) August 5, 2021. HubSpot accelerated to 53% YoY growth , up from 44% a year ago.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Q: When Should A Slow Growth Company Hire a Head of Sales? Whether you’re a slow-growth company or a rocketship, a great VP of Sales will make everything a little bit better quickly. So, don’t go too early and burn the team out, but don’t wait too long and exhaust your TAM and slow your growth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2024

And at the growth stage, top decile may not even be enough to raise another round. About 20%-25% are growing like it’s 2021. And can raise VC funding, including growth capital, quickly and effortlessly. This is roughly what I see in my own portfolio at SaaStr Fund. Well, not quite, but at least close. That’s my bet.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2022

Following Snowflake’s blow out quarter announcing big acceleration of growth at the end of the quarter, Salesforce has now announced a record quarter as well, growing a stunning 24% at a now $30 Billion in ARR. Snowflake also noted certain industries were buying / using less, even if overall growth at the end of the quarter was very strong.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

They’ve been driving the lion’s share of the S&P and NASDAQ growth. This chart is a basket of high growth defined by 30%+ in the markets. It wouldn’t be high-growth in private markets. Compare that to the high in the manic zero interest rate environment of 2021 at 25.1 It was 10.8

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A year ago, growth was at 48%. Customer Count Growth Driven in Large Part by Acquisitions There are only so many big banks to sell to, and nCino’s core customer count has grow slowly but steadily from 335 in 2021 to 428 today. But new products from acquisition have fueled the overall customer count growth to 1,858. #2.

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Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2021

2021 was the breakout year for marketing operations. A 2021 survey by BrandMaker showed that a top priority for CMOs is better tech stack integration, a key responsibility of the marketing ops function. Today’s hype in B2B focuses on topics like ABM, community-building, and product-led growth.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It’s not the crazy hiring market of 2021. Not as many folks as 2021, in some cases. And it’s no easier today to find great people than it was in 2021. In 2021, it was the opposite. If you are running the same playbook in 2025 to get a job that you ran in 2021, it probably won’t work. It’s different.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The last big SaaS IPO of the Boom Era was Hashicorp in December 2021, and after that, multiples fell off a cliff. It actually confidentially filed to IPO during the tail end of the 2021 Boom , but the boom ended too quickly, so the filing was quietly shelved. So there were barely any SaaS IPOs in 2022 or 2023. Fingers crossed.

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