Category
Series B Key Challenges
Series B Team’s org
Market Practices
Revenue Growth Rate + Burn Rate = 40%
Critical
The 40% rule implies that early-stage companies with either low or negative profitability could still be reasonably priced at a high valuation multiple if their growth rate can offset their burn rate.
Market Practices
From Revops Squared 2022 SaaS Benchmark:
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From OpenView 2022 SaaS Benchmarks:
![image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F243cb712-f02c-4e9f-b6ad-07aa1a4408dd%2FUntitled.png?id=8d4accd4-248c-4e11-b74b-8dbe35499c7c&table=block)