2018 Benchmarks Software Development 
FastSpring
MAY 20, 2024
Choose FastSpring for Subscription Infrastructure and Long-Term Partnership Stardock Software first started using FastSpring in 2018 to help them sell their software products, and they’d always had a relatively good experience with how FastSpring handles sales of one-time software purchases.
OPEXEngine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Downward trending cost of goods (COGs) benchmarks are improving SaaS gross margins. To see how COGs and gross margins are changing, take a look at these charts showing SaaS companies that IPO’ed in 2008 versus 2018. For companies IPO’ing in 2018, average COGs had dropped to 31% of revenue and average gross margins had increased to 68.5%
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Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 31, 2018
For example, your email to a veteran IT director with 30 years of experience in the manufacturing field shouldn’t sound the same as the one you send to an up-and-coming software developer. Nearly 70 percent of companies that came up short neglected such research, according to Cintell’s 2016 B2B benchmark study. DON’T: Overdo it.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
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. 2018 saw about $44 billion of value added to the public markets, companies like Dropbox, companies like DocuSign, and that has continued now into 2019.
How To Buy Saas
MAY 25, 2025
Once transformers came around, we saw an explosion in LLM size and capability for example, Googles BERT model in 2018 was one of the first transformer-based LMs, and OpenAIs GPT-3 in 2020 took it further with 175 billion parameters (versus GPT-2s 1.5 Its a remarkable use of LLMs to speed up software development.
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