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"Why Wall Street Investors Love the Recurring Rev Model"

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Last article linked explained in some good clear direct language the Eurcontrol recurring revenue model-that being if all it does is as a company stand pat on its laurels/

The article states that EURO generates 75% of existing revenues to start off their next operational years reporting with.

So in essesence Rowlands is stating/guiding company expectations of $20Million (or in excess of) for operational 2016.

Start of operational 2017 then would be a guaranteed base of appx $15million before any new contracts were awarded and announced in existing sectors or vertical ones under commercial development-application and/or eventual commercial rollout.

Its not hard to see how 50% year over year growth can be achieved and why it pays to be a pateient investor with companies built on this type of valuable and highly coveted (even by Warren Buffet -think monthly insurance premiums paid by subscribers this the term "subscription model" being one and the same as the "recurring revenue model) and why
if you can find a company with world class leading technology-still early into its commercialization and market recognition-and relatively undiscovered by the investment community at large and discounted relative to guidance on near term future cash flows from revenue generation and can get in at what some call "ground floor" levels of entry?

The astute and patient investor could stand to see a good to great ROI.

And even thru down turns/trends and markets-the recurring revenue model
keeps producing.

In this guide we’ll be covering the primary appeal of recurring revenue-based business models from an investor’s perspective. We’ll look at a number of favorite Wall Street arguments in favor of subscriptions. Let’s start with predicability.

To investors, the primary appeal of recurring revenue models is the value of predictable recurring revenue, particularly in comparison to one-time transactions. For example, a $20 million dollar company with eighty percent recurring revenue can count on sixteen million dollars at the beginning of every year. That figure is stable and predictable. Management can plan and invest accordingly.

The same cannot be said of a $20 million dollar business with no recurring revenue. That company has to start the year at zero. Of course it can make some predictions based on past performance, but it doesn’t have a contractually obligated revenue stream to base ambitious expansion plans around.

Smart subscription businesses look at something called ARR, which stands for Annual Recurring Revenue, and consists of the subscription revenue from customers for an ongoing service. To get at ARR, subscription businesses take the value of their subscription contracts, normalize it to an annual amount, and add it all up. For a subscription business, more so than cash or revenue, ARR is the true indicator of your company’s health. You can start every year with a very predictable amount of future revenue.

In addition, a healthy subscription-based business benefits from excellent customer retention and robust customer insight for cross-selling or marketing. And relative to other retail models, recurring revenue models tend to be much easier to operate in terms of pricing. Most companies that use subscriptions only need to manage a few pricing tiers, rather than individually pricing an array of products.

All of these tools reinforce predictability. Stock valuations are forward-looking predictions, and subscriptions are forward-looking revenue models. It’s no wonder that Gartner predicts that by 2015, 35% of Global 2000 companies with non-media digital products will generate up to 10% of their revenue from recurring models.

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When you have a recurring revenue business model, you rarely miss your monthly or quarterly numbers by more than 10-20%. Your forecasting process is much more accurate. At the beginning of the quarter, you start with a base to grow from rather than begin at zero. In a SaaS or subscription software business, you can predict your churn rate and new business closings to determine your growth rate. The management team and the investors are thus rarely surprised by major fluctuations in your results.

— Venture Capitalist Jeff Bussgang

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INVESTORS VALUE GROWTH

Having a predictable revenue stream allows subscription-based businesses to invest aggressively in growth, particularly in kinetic market conditions with multiple players.

All companies are vulnerable to disruption. There is no such thing as a permanently established incumbent, particularly in a wildly disruptive industry like IT, where a majority of the top 25 enterprise companies are not predicted to be around in 20 years.

That being said, legacy product vendors have an advantage in their resources, customers and partners. It takes a an aggressive, disruptive approach to capture their customers. Subscription-based businesses provide that disruption with lower up-front costs, greater flexibility, intuitive delivery mechanisms and a keen ongoing sense of their customers’ needs and wants.

That’s why the median growth for SaaS subscription companies is over three times that of traditional enterprise software companies (see below). Those companies are growing rapidly at the expense of the incumbents.

Companies like Workday, Adobe, Box and Zendesk have proven that when managed well, a subscription-based platform is a healthy and financially attractive model that has disrupted some of the most established industries across the globe.

“Predictability and visibility means you can manage your expenses more precisely relative to your revenue. One of the hard things about lumpy revenue models is that until literally midnight on the last day of the quarter, you don’t know how you did. Which means it is hard to ramp up or down expenses smoothly to match revenues. Ramping expenses up and down is a sticky process because it usually involves people and there are many friction points, delays and costs as well as externalities (such as morale) when you try to rapidly ramp down expenses in a quarter as a result of lower-than-anticipated revenue.”

— Venture Capitalist Jeff Bussgang

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