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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Sales and marketing activity.