September 4, 2025
Evaluate your SaaS go-to-market strategy with this 20-question GTM audit checklist. Assess sales, marketing, customer success, and data alignment for growth and scalability.
Tech companies are all about innovation – how obvious is that? And how well you run your R&D innovation and processes is a major determining factor in a company’s success, no more so than in the fast moving world of SaaS technology. No matter how good your Sales and Marketing functions are, they need to continually be producing competitive products to succeed.
Annual Study Finds Private Software Industry and SaaS Firms Seeing Strong Growth, More Hiring and Significant Venture Capital Flow.
The recession of 2008 took its toll on many different industries and the software industry was certainly no exception.
We announced recently that average annual revenue growth for the fastest growth private SaaS companies had jumped from last year’s median of 100% to this year’s 150% annual revenue growth. The press release got a lot of attention and was reported in InfoWorld, ZDNet, CPA Practice Advisor and the Kiplinger Letter, among others.
Bomgar is a venture-backed, mid-sized software vendor which has ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the past 4 years.
The tagline for General Catalyst Partners is “entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs,” and partners of the active venture firm are well known for lending deep operating experience to their portfolio executives’ growing businesses. I’ve known Larry for years since we were both operating executives at various software companies. Here’s his take on the key operating metrics that executives need to be on top of to stimulate growth and profitability — as well as the metrics that drive valuation in today’s market:
Rally Software, based in Boulder, CO, is the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and IPO’ed April 2013.
Financial results for the Class of 9 B2B SaaS companies that IPO'ed in 2014
In a recent article from Todd Gardner and team at SaaS Capital, the impact of how different renewal rates affect both total revenue and revenue growth rates is laid out clearly. They calculate that a 1% difference in churn can have a 12% impact on valuation in five years, so imagine the impact if the change in churn is 5 or more percent.
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