Crater: SaaS startups need a 3x breakout year to reach breakeven
Bonnie Crater · 825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management · Oct 27, 2017 · at 11:32
Bonnie Crater, CEO of Full Circle Insights, explains the growth model needed for SaaS companies to reach profitability.
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“Our model has always been to double year over year and then one year we need to triple. So when I, when I've done this modeling, basically that's kind of how you have to do these SaaS businesses is one of these years you have to have like a breakout year where you triple in order to get to break even.”
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