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I just came across the most shocking piece of data I’ve seen in a long time.
It’s this chart, and in it there are thousands of (anonymized) SaaS companies grouped by their size, and the chart shows their media growth.
Now, for example, these companies are in Seed Stage, but to raise a seed round they would need to grow much faster. Like 3x faster than this.
Or take a look at this company. This is a company with millions of dollars in annual revenue, and it’s ‘just’ growing at 3%. If you put this in front of an investor, they will call it mediocre and non-fundable, but this is the reality for thousands and thousands of startups. Bootstrapped, profitable companies with solid revenue basis, sticky products…
