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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. Let’s start with Payroll – Support.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. We went through an acquisition and we got bought. I got into the game there, obviously went through the acquisition, that’s how we came up with the idea for the company. It really lended itself to being this new category, this post signature type of contract product.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. So this is Dharmesh.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. So this is Dharmesh.