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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Today, we’ll examine Tableau, the market leader for data visualization software. Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions. Customers pay a fee for the software up-front, in addition to an annual maintenance fee of about 20-25%.

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Paid Search Management For SaaS Start-ups - An Interview With Soren Ryherd, CEO, Working Planet

Outseta

Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.