Product Management and M&A. Musings of a reformed private equity operator
The Software Equity Group (SEG) regularly publishes quantitative research on the software and SaaS market M&A activity. The SEG SaaS Index contains 110 publicly traded SaaS companies. They recently published…
Baron Rothschild, an 18th-century British nobleman and member of the Rothschild banking family, is credited with saying that "the time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." In…
I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. It has over 5,974 members and is simply a meme stash for product managers, marketers, and corporate life. People post…
In the past few months, I have had an unusual number of inquiries from private equity firms about the state of the electronic data interchange (EDI) market. As a corporate…
The best part of being a business owner is seeing your vision come to life. You get to watch as the services and products you once only dreamed of become…
The SEG SaaS Index contains 110 publicly traded SaaS companies. They recently published their April 2022 SEG SaaS Index Update. The Median SaaS company Enterprise Value/Revenue multiple declined another 7%…
Layoffs in the startup industry are spiking again. In spite of a good jobs report this week, layoffs are climbing again. So far in Q2, 4,720 startup employees have lost…
I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. It has over 4,833 members and is simply a meme stash for product managers, marketers, and corporate life. People post…
The Software Equity Group recently published their SEG Snapshot: 1Q22 SaaS Public Market Update. The impact of the market downturn can be clearly seen across all categories of SaaS.
As Q1 ended, the impact of the recent market downturn in SaaS company valuations could clearly be seen. Median Enterprise Value/Revenue (ttm) multiples dropped 24% in comparison to Q4 2021.…