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Pivoting from Growth-at-All-Costs: 4 Focus Areas to Thrive in Any Market with BCG Consulting Partner Courtney Dong + Managing Director and Partner JB Reed (Video)

SaaStr

Since 2008, investor preference has largely been growth-oriented due to the artificially low cost of capital and stimulus. The ‘Rule of 40’ is a valuable metric that can illustrate the degree of shift and what it means for companies fundraising and operating. Example Metric: Gross Margin – a measure of product-level profitability.

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7 Attractive Financial Benefits and Freedoms of Starting New Businesses

Baremetrics

So, I handed in my resignation at the end of 2008, and moved to the corporate world, taking a job with a small engineering services company. Baremetrics can keep tabs on all of your business metrics, such as MRR, ARR, ARPU and more. Benefit #2: Getting Compensated for Nearly All the Value I Create. The reason is obvious.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. What do you look for as CEO, as the key metrics when you are to measure like how is your sales organization doing other than the top line numbers? So one of the things that I think is a very telling metric is sales productivity.

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Introducing OpenView’s Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Data Explorer

OpenView Labs

However, when we look “under the hood” (the metrics supporting growth) of public SaaS companies (see the right-hand chart below), we find that just 7 (one in ten) public SaaS companies will generate substantial negative profit margins this year. Efficient growth – the balance of growth and strong efficiency metrics, creates value.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

This was 2008, right? I feel a lot of engineers, to be honest — struggling about understanding the customer and user adoption and the engagement metrics without that good UI, UX. Jyoti: And there’s a sales compensation aspect to it also. So how did you adjust the compensation accordingly? Satish: Exactly.

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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. That was around 2008, and that's when we started selling a commercial license. In 2008 we did $1mm in cash receipts with an average deal size of $3000.