kellblog.com · 2021-01-30
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Kellblog 2021 Predictions
Dave Kellogg reviews his 2020 predictions and presents ten predictions for 2021, including shifts toward valuing resilience over efficiency, work-from-home adoption, tech geographic diversification, SaaS multiple compression, and the rise of Net Dollar Retention as the primary SaaS metric. The article emphasizes structural changes in business operations driven by COVID-19 and predicts evolution in data intelligence and enterprise planning software markets.
Metrics in this report
Median Home Price
2500000USD
median
Palo Alto, California residential real estate
Median SaaS EV/Revenue Multiple
18x
median
SaaS companies as of 2021; prior year (2015) was approximately 5x
Proposed Mean-Reversion SaaS EV/Revenue Multiple
10x
target
Kellogg's rational reversion assumption accounting for structure, quality, and expectations
Series A Average Funding Size
15millions USD
average
2020 US venture funding; up 16% from 2019