{"id":10378,"date":"2014-03-07T00:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/07\/analysing-saas-ipos-past-present-and-future-infographic\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T00:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:37:16","slug":"analysing-saas-ipos-the-past-present-and-future-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/analysing-saas-ipos-the-past-present-and-future-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysing SaaS IPOs: the past, present and future [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been almost 10 years since Salesforce.com filed for IPO, on June 23 2004. And with a 56.4% gain in initial trading, it was the first genuine indicator of the huge monetisation potential in software-as-a-service (SaaS).<\/p>\n<p>While Salesforce remains the leader in SaaS, there have been a plethora of public offerings since then &ndash; but not at the lightning pace that would have been expected.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December Altos Ventures wrote about the first decade of SaaS IPOs, with an interesting conclusion: of the 40 SaaS firms who had floated, it took on average 9.7 years to go from founding to IPO, with the biggest hurdle breaking the $30m revenue mark.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a tough journey for the majority of these firms, even the &ldquo;unicorns&rdquo; &ndash; the best in class organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel, according to a new research infographic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been almost 10 years since Salesforce.com filed for IPO, on June 23 2004. And with a 56.4% gain in initial trading, it was the first genuine indicator of the huge monetisation potential in software-as-a-service (SaaS).<br \/>\nWhile Salesforce remai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}