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These are very different products, for different audiences
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How many subscribers on your newsletter? More = usually means you pay up
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Out of 15 users polled informally - 14 would love to manage blog, newsletter & Twitter in one place
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Access to more content = more engagement?
tomkubik··on Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Risk / return trade-off still holds - great insight!

Performance through-the-cycle is a big question. One can point to Salesforce (founded 1999, IPO 2004), which has been around for 20+ years... However, big sample bias here (ditto for my article, with sample n = 1). Salesforce, a big-category-defining company - may not be representative of moderately-sized businesses.

Whoisnnamdi - per your post, revenue retention looks like a key metric driving valuations!

tomkubik··on Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Being (1) private, and (2) moderately-sized, allows you to adapt more quickly - same reason why buyouts of public companies usually end with delisting. Useful thing in a downturn!
tomkubik··on Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
"Indiehackers" - community of bootstrap founders, you can find them online... Direct access to business owners. Good place to start!
tomkubik··on Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Welcome feedback - you took the time for careful read-through, thank you!
tomkubik··on Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Yes, big question if Buffer represents average return profile for "late-stage SaaS"... time will tell!