NFTs have been around since 2014. It is estimated that there were $25 billion of NFT sales in 2021. After surviving the DotCom bubble of 2000, the housing bubble (2008), and the Bitcoin bubble of 2018 are we witnessing the start of an NFT bubble? The $5 billion in OpenSea NFT sales in January 2022 may be the start of another bubble of epic proportions. If someone is willing to pay $736 for a year of recorded fart sounds, the sky is the limit.
I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. It has over 4,400 members and is simply a meme stash for product managers, marketers, and corporate life. People post amusing stuff every day. There’s no self-promotion or spam, just entertainment. Here are 15 of the most popular posts from January 2022 based on likes and shares.
Every year Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) publish a comprehensive report on the VC industry. The report includes data on angel & seed-stage funding as well as late-stage VC rounds. It includes data about regional VC trends, venture debt, female founders, the spike in VC exit valuations, and the 2021 VC league tables.
In 2021 there were a record 3,400 software M&A deals. There are a lot of reasons companies do M&A. Increasing revenues, increasing market share, accelerating product roadmaps, and growing competitive differentiation are common drivers. A key aspect is the ability to cross-sell. Cross-selling the acquired company’s products into your existing customer base is one opportunity. So is selling your core products into the acquired company’s existing customer base. Revenue from cross-selling is an important factor in almost every M&A financial model, yet many companies struggle to achieve cross-selling objectives. Cross-selling is critical for SaaS revenue growth.
The Software Equity Group (SEG) regularly publishes quantitative research on the software and SaaS market M&A activity. The SEG SaaS Index contains dozens of publicly traded SaaS companies. They recently published their 2022 Annual Report. It provides a ton of data on SaaS valuations and financial operating metrics.
If you ever wondered if Medium is good for SEO, I can offer some tangible proof. I have been blogging at DevelopmentCorporate.com for 12 years. I write about enterprise software product management and mergers/acquisitions. It is a niche blog that gets some decent traffic. I have been republishing my content on Medium since late 2018. Recently I discovered that an article from my blog that I republished n Medium ranked #1 for a Google search term. My original post on my blog ranked #3.
As 2022 begins, many leaders are looking back at 2021 and wondering how they can drive more leads and revenue. Content marketing is often suggested as a free way to drive more web traffic and leads. How can a CEO know how effective their content marketing efforts are? Google Search Console can answer that question in a matter of minutes. Armed with that information, companies can leverage their own employees’’ knowledge to create web content that displays what Google calls Expertise-Authority, & Trustworthiness (E-A-T). Content with high E-A-T tends to rank very well on Google.
Recurring revenue is a core metric for SaaS companies. It drives valuation, funding, and success. Revenue retention is a major concern for product managers. They need to understand what is going on with the revenue streams from their existing customers. Logo retention, Gross Retention, and Net Dollar Retention are three critical metrics. For private companies in 2021, the median Gross Retention was between 88% and 90%. The median Net Dollar Retention was between 60% and 148%. For public SaaS companies the median Net Dollar Retention rate was 114%.
The Software Equity Group (SEG) regularly publishes quantitative research on the software and SaaS market M&A activity. The SEG SaaS Index contains dozens of publicly traded SaaS companies. The SEG SaaS Index: November 2021 Monthly Update contains data on median Enterprise Value/Revenue multiples, key SaaS metric by SaaS market, and the performance of the top/bottom 25 pubic SaaS companies in the SEG SaaS Index.
I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. The group has over 4,000 members. It is simply a meme stash for product managers, marketers, and corporate life. Here are the top 25 based on the number of likes and shares. At the end of the post, there is a link to a spreadsheet that lists links to #25 through #100.