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5. How Does Burn Productivity Drive SaaS Valuation?… A Practical Example

Venture Capitalists are renown for valuations that are often grounded in significant subjectivity that defy typical valuation…

5 min readJun 16, 2020

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5. How Does Burn Productivity Drive SaaS Valuation?… A Practical Example

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4. ‘Burn Productivity’… A Consistently Better Signaler of SaaS Valuation

The prior analysis showed that while valuation is nicely correlated to Magic Number and Rule of 40 as of 1Q 2020, the correlation hasn’t…

6 min readJun 16, 2020

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NTM Revenue Multiple vs. Burn Productivity

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3. Magic Number and Rule of 40… Helpful, For Now

Financial ratios are partially helpful in allowing entrepreneurs and executives to benchmark SaaS companies by which to shape their own…

5 min readJun 16, 2020

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Growth and efficiency metrics, ranked by valuation quartile

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2. What SaaS Financial Ratios Should You Go Public With?… And Why No One Size Fits All

The previous post (link) in this analysis benchmarked median and top quartile financial ratios, and touted the importance of considering…

5 min readJun 16, 2020

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Financial Ratios of SaaS Companies at $250M ARR — Median vs. Top Quartile

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1. SaaS Financial Benchmarking… One Size Doesn’t Fit All, and Focusing on Gross Profit

As part of this blog series’ discussion on the importance of focusing on Burn Productivity, a recap on incumbent analyses of financial…

6 min readJun 16, 2020

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Cost and Margin Ratios as a % of Revenue — 1Q’20

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SaaS ‘Burn Productivity’… Better Than Magic Number and Rule of 40?

In an increasingly product-led world, traditional SaaS ratios/metrics are becoming outdated. Why? Hyper-growth, burgeoning network effects…

2 min readJun 16, 2020

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NTM Revenue Valuation Correlations Over Time — Including Burn Productivity

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King Goh

King Goh

Principal at @eventuresvc, data nerd at heart, Aussie. Investor @Cameo @RoadrunnerWM, @Honeycomb, @Zumper, @Segment. Ex-@morganstanley TMT Equity Research

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