The Typical Startup Saw a 24% Increase in Sales Cycle in 2023
Tomasz TunguzVenture Capitalist If you were forwarded this newsletter, and you'd like to receive it in the future, subscribe here. The Typical Startup Saw a 24% Increase in Sales Cycle in 2023
Sales cycles shifted dramatically in 2023. Slower sales cycles create pipeline shocks & startups are feeling the impacts. The average startup saw a 24% increase in sales cycle from early 2022 to 2023. 60 day sales cycles are now 75 days. But the latency isn’t evenly distributed. Startups selling to enterprises have increased 36%, twice those of Mid-Market & SMB focused companies. This figure is statistically significant with a p value of 0.0005. The distribution chart above shows about one-third of enterprise sales cycles take 50% or longer than last year to complete. Mid-market & SMB distributions skew left with up to 10% of businesses reporting a decrease in sales cycle during the period. The VSB chart shows a bi-modal tilt to the data: most companies observe a moderate increase but about one-quarter have seen a doubling.
Usage-based companies have suffered greater increases in sales cycle than seat based companies: 29% vs 21% with a p-value of 0.1. And yes, enterprise focused companies with usage based pricing models have borne the greatest overall increase of 44%. These benchmarks suggest startups should plan on materially longer sales cycles into 2023. The antidote: greater pipeline-to-quota coverage ratios by either increasing the top of the funnel or reducing the account executive headcount. The data analysis uses the results from the 2023 GTM Survey. |
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