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Sales and marketing are roughly 1-to-1 with revenue growth, and the spent over $100m in 2014 to make $63m in revenue. I don't find these metrics particularly en
by inthewoods 12y ago
Sales and marketing are roughly 1-to-1 with revenue growth, and the spent over $100m in 2014 to make $63m in revenue. I don't find these metrics particularly encouraging. Now this is a SaaS business where you're betting on LTV - but these metrics are tough imho.
- verelo 12y agoWhile I agree regarding the revenue growth, as someone who uses the service heavily in production, there is significant lock-in and the product is great value. If they continue to innovate this could be a good bet (one i will consider making personally)
- inthewoods 12y agoWhat's the lock-in? Are you saving the data?
- verelo 12y agoI just find its one of those products that the more you use it the more you simply cannot live without it. I could see someone copying the product, but personally I'd probably continue with New Relic unless the price difference was significant.
- prostoalex 12y agoThere's barely a tech site where you won't be offered a free t-shirt or similar reward for installing their free client. Their downloads graph probably looks up and to the right.
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- fredsted 12y ago> $100m Now I know why I've been seeing them everywhere for the past year.
- supercoder 12y agoI found their sales team incredibly pushing, bordering on aggressive. I was happy enough on a free plan and they were trying to get me to go to the next tier up which was $200 a month. Must have received about 10 emails from them trying to 'work out a deal'. I would have just been happy with some pricing in the middle but the jump was far too high. Anyway whole thing left a bad taste in the mouth.