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09.03.2019

Revenue growth must be steady

We looked at the revenue trends of 146 tech companies prior to their IPO and discovered that while fast growth in the year of IPO is critical, so is consistent growth from the prior year. In other words, tech companies……

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08.29.2019

Growth & Revenue needed to IPO

We looked at the revenue growth of 146 tech companies prior to going public to see how fast you need to grow prior to IPO/exit.  Data is below. The “S1 filing” is the year the company filed their S1; an……

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08.28.2019

Lessons from a successful exit in the cloud

We had the chance to speak with Jay Chapel, founder of ParkMyCloud, which exited to Turbonomic in May 2019.  Learnings from his journey are below.   Your original idea will change.  Initially, Jay and his team set out to build……

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08.27.2019

Summarized data on SaaS IPO’s

We looked at the equity raised of 89 SaaS companies that have gone public; according to that data, it takes $132mm of equity to get to a big exit (IPO).  All data was pulled from s-1’s, which is a securities……

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08.26.2019

Tech companies eat more cash than ever

It’s easier than ever to start a tech business, but harder than ever to be the biggest.  It’s also expensive. We did an analysis looking at the amount of capital raised by 147 tech companies prior to going public.  These……

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