article thumbnail

These 6 hidden reasons explain why your outsourced software testing isn't working

Audacix

Far too often we receive mayday calls from prospects who have invested a lot of money, but more importantly time, into selecting and working with a outsourced test automation services provider, only to be rewarded with a never-ending tug of war that inflicts much damage to their professional reputations. If you pay peanuts, you get.

article thumbnail

How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Tom Tunguz

Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014. You can read through Xero’s investor materials on their investor portal and sift through their annual report for 2015 here , which reveals that the company acquires SMBs by convincing outsourced accountancies migrate the SMBs these accountancies serve to Xero.

article thumbnail

Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. In 2007, I had this idea, “I’m going to make something very specific to an industry, very specific to an industry in the cloud.” Peter : Yeah.

article thumbnail

The New User Journey: Follow Your Users to Understand how to Excel at Go-to-Market

OpenView Labs

This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. . I vaguely remember reading Dave McClure’s pirate metrics slideshare (circa 2007!) These models also enable pay-as-you-go for users that don ’ t want a contract and need pricing that scales with their use. Some examples are MongoDB and snyk.

Scale 72
article thumbnail

7 Neuroscience Sales Tips That’ll Skyrocket Your Sales

Neil Patel

You either do it yourself or outsource it to a knowledgeable freelance writer. For example, if you’re a website developer, you could offer to help readers tweak their WordPress themes, or show them how to do it easily themselves. This might explain why so many people donate to charities that work in developing countries.

Sales 137
article thumbnail

On the Value and Power of Building Authentic Connections

OpenView Labs

The idea for JumpCloud presented itself in 2007 while I was working on another business. And we knew we could deliver business innovation by delivering the product via a freemium SaaS model (rather than AD’s contract-based on-premises model).