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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Benefits of using Expense Categories in SaaS The main expense categories for any SaaS company are: Cost of Revenue Research & Development Sales & Marketing General & Admin These four categories are the standard for describing costs and expenses of any SaaS company from Salesforce to Zoom to your startup. Subaccounts for everyone!

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SaaS companies quickly replacing subscriptions with usage-based pricing

OPEXEngine

Dive Insight: CircleCI, a company whose SaaS platform helps developers speed their software projects, moved from subscription to usage-based pricing a few years ago after tracking how often its customers accessed its services. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. These platforms are vital in simplifying our payment operations by providing a secure infrastructure to process credit card transactions, handle multiple currencies, and manage recurring payments without complex development.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. According to this 2018 research report by ProfitWell, companies using freemium have 50% lower CAC with NPS scores nearly double those of non-freemium businesses. Freemium vs. Free Trial: How To Pick the Right SaaS Revenue Model in 2018. Freemium benchmarks.

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Contentful Announces $33.5 Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack

The SaaS Garage

Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack December 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Contentful , the leading content infrastructure for digital teams, today announced $33.5 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? You last chatted with us way back in 2018, when you shared your insights on engineering and infrastructure management. They’ve developed this into their own set of representations of what makes sense for them. Solving the puzzle.