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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. 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.

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25% of B2B SaaS Sales Are Headed to Cloud Marketplaces

OpenView Labs

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021.