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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. One of the first things that stood out at the time was JFrog’s highly efficient financial metrics.

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5 Interesting Learnings from GitLab at $250,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was exciting at YC 2015 Demo Day. And the engine really never stopped running, evolving into a dominant DevOps Platform for software development. This is an interesting segmentation of core metrics. While GitLab has 15,356 customers as of July 2021, it focuses its metrics on its 3,600+ ones with an ACV of $5k or more.

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The 8th DO for SaaS startups - Stay on top of your KPIs

The Angel VC

Depending on the stage that you’re in you’ll want to focus on different metrics. The key message of the chart is that in the beginning you can focus on a small set of metrics, but as time goes by and you’re making progress you need to add additional KPIs to your cockpit. Firstly there just aren’t many metrics to keep an eye on yet.

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How I Built a High-Performing Data Driven Sales Team [And How You Can Too]

Sales Hacker

While a data driven sales coaching approach is still challenging to many sales leaders, the importance of chasing the right sales metrics is growing by the day! Based on Salesforce’s research in 2015, top sales teams are three times more likely to use analytics than under-performing teams. A data-driven sales approach.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Back at the first SaaStr Annual, in February 2015, we kicked off the day with Aaron Levie from Box — who had just IPO’d a week or so before. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

I co-founded a company called Spotistic back in 2012, which we sold to Uberall in 2015. This refers to the improvement of your main output metrics. If your mission is to reduce CO2 emissions, you can (potentially should) make this your main output metric. Intro Hi, my name is Victor. The article is using the word “growth” a lot.