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New 2024 Benchmarks for SaaS Bootstrappers! 📊 SaaS Capital just published their latest benchmarking report, and it's packed with useful insights. They surveyed 1,500+ private SaaS companies, focusing on SaaS KPIs and cost items as % of revenue. The table below shows the results for bootstrapped SaaS companies between $3-20M ARR. Please note that hitting $10M+ ARR requires rock-solid KPIs. If you're sub $3m and don't quite hit the median, don't worry - patterns vary. For smaller companies, the picture certainly looks different. Anything you find surprising? #saas #startups #founders #bootstrap #kpi #growth #benchmarks

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Ricardo Mesquita

Building custom software for startups | $28M in funded MVPs | Team as a service - Your ideas our team

7mo

The percentile calculation is by row? So it's the 50th percentile of each row invidually because it changes everything if you have a leading parameter like Revenue

Nick Appel

🚀 {Hiring}🚀 Helping companies create better, safer and more secure products and services.

7mo

Hi Dirk Sahlmer, great insights. However, how does spending 177% of revenue work when you are bootstrapped?

Kunal Mamtora

I help businesses achieve and maintain Product Market Fit | Proven systems to grow profitable

7mo

Dirk Sahlmer I agree that " hitting $10M+ ARR requires rock-solid KPIs." but at the same time if you don't have a product market fit this challenge increases by 10-fold

Marton Medveczky

Assoc. Partner @ Flashpoint | Investing $1-10m into B2B SaaS companies with an efficiency edge.

7mo

Great research but a bit skewed due to the respondents (SaaS Capital's core clientele) are seeking debt, which usually is the case when they can't/won't get equity, a lot of times due to lower growth. I have seen this with other debt provider research as well that the benchmarks were a little lower than the actual market.

Vlad Călin

CTO at Vuuh | Posting about startups, tech and everything indie (game dev and business)

7mo

It's interesting to see how the percentages for the 25th percentile are very low, and the ones for the 90th percentile are very high. I am struggling to make sense of it, but my first thought is that it's a bias in reporting, as bigger companies have better financial tracking processes?

Mario Suazo Fuentealba

Digital Transformation & eCommerce | Tech & businesses | 🎓 University of Edinburgh, MSc 🇬🇧 | 🎓 TUM Munich, Executive MBA 🇩🇪 | 📍Munich, Germany

7mo

thanks for sharing Dirk Sahlmer! I am just curious about the bottom line showing (total expenses / revenue), ranging from 95% up to 177.4%! That would mean very very few of these 1.500 companies are profitable. Rare case considering they are all bootstrapped. Isn't it?

ACV of ~$170k is wild. What’s the sample size? Obviously enterprise product. What’s the industry(s)?

Stefan Wirth

Growing assets of a SaaS HoldCo. with SEO

7mo

Where is "millions burned on LLMs"?

Hamish Dean

Owner @ ShapeShifter Technology Group | World Catan Champion

7mo

Is that bottom row implying only around 25% are profitable?

Zachary Ahlstedt

CEO & Co-Founder @ Outpave

7mo

Bootstrapping... not for the faint of heart.

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