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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

For SaaS businesses that target smaller SMB customer segments, gross retention is typically in the mid to low 80’s with net expansion in the ~105% range. And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. We are going from having an enterprise business to having a mid-market business to investing in an SMB business.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

But if you target SMBs or consumers, PLG is a fantastic way, and you have a very large user base to reach out to as well. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB? The cloud-managed services attract the lower end of the market and make it possible for these businesses to address the SMB/mid-market segments.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

It took me a long time to admit to myself that I don’t enjoy transactional SMB sales. Today I help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? You deserve to be happy at work and there is no prize for suffering.

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