I spent the last eleven years or so as a SaaS CEO — growing from $1M in ARR to $10M+. I’ve always been data-driven, but when I discovered live dashboards, it changed my day-to-day life. Metrics are important, but access to and visualization of key data are much harder to come by. So here’s the anatomy […]
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Data-Driven SaaS Sales & Marketing Alignment
Yesterday, Anna and I presented Data That Supports True Sales & Marketing Alignment at the Nashville Analytics Summit. Our session identified and contextualized the data we’ve used to unite SaaS sales & marketing to ultimately drive capital-efficient, predictable growth. Being married SaaS co-founders, one responsible for sales and the other for marketing makes us uniquely […]
SaaS Scale and SaaS Maturity Are Not the Same
I’m actually a bit cranked up about SaaS scale and SaaS maturity being confused and comingled. We’re working with a couple of SaaS companies at roughly the same revenue scale but wildly different maturity levels. The problem is that both founders see themselves in the same stage of development because annual recurring revenue (ARR) is […]
Sales-Driven SaaS Marketing Maturity Report Card
Sales-driven SaaS marketing maturity is critical to revenue growth. I’ve been in SaaS marketing since 2007 when we launched our first platform. As CMO, I’ve built capital efficient sales-driven marketing programs that delivered qualified leads to meet or exceed revenue growth goals. The path to that predictable performance was built on a foundation of principles […]
SaaS Business Evaluation Framework to Accelerate Growth
We evaluate a lot of SaaS companies. And, we evaluated our own SaaS company for years. But how we evaluate growth-stage companies at the top level is specifically designed to help everyone quickly focus on strengths and weaknesses to make improvements that accelerate growth. In Beacon9, that SaaS business evaluation is the first part of […]
SaaS Sales Efficiency Calculator
I am so excited to launch the Married2Growth SaaS Sales Efficiency Calculator today! Sales efficiency is a lesser-known metric that is rarely discussed in popular SaaS communities but almost always evaluated in the financial and investment markets. It’s the metric everyone knows is important, but no one talks about. I view it as a leading […]
SaaS LTV Calculator
Last week we were super psyched to launch our CAC Calculator, the first of many Married2Growth SaaS Tools. Today, we’re excited to bring you a follow-on, the LTV Calculator. This one helps you quickly estimate SaaS customer lifetime value and if you have your CAC, it also calculates your LTV-to-CAC Ratio. Like CAC, LTV is […]
What to Expect When You Are Expecting SaaS Due Diligence
If you’re expecting to give birth to a deal in SaaS, you’re expecting due diligence. And if you haven’t been through it before, SaaS due diligence may be more burdensome than you might think. Then again, maybe it will be less onerous than you’re expecting. I seriously doubt the latter, but anything is possible. Your […]
SaaS CAC Calculator
As a SaaS CEO, one of the things I’ve always wanted at my fingertips is a library of SaaS metrics calculators. Turns out I’m not alone in that desire. Metrics-obsessed SaaS leaders rejoice! Or at least get out of the spreadsheets. Today’s Married2Growth CAC Calculator is the first of many tools that we see as […]
Burn Rate Shouldn’t Be Churn Rate
I write and talk a lot about capital efficiency. Some may consider that a bootstrap bias, but it’s really not. A SaaS company’s capital must be used wisely to maximize growth — regardless of its source or quantity. If the revenue churn rate is too close to the capital burn rate, you’ve got a problem to […]
