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A Look Back at Q4 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. net retention and CAC payback).

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Bulletproof your software with these 12 best application security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM & WAF)

Audacix

AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution. AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. I kinda think all the benchmarks are b t. It’s going to have lots of specialization.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

Microsoft’s recent deal with SAP to bring SAP cloud customers onto the Azure platform, together with similar deals with Oracle and VMWare, gives AWS a run for its money. We have seen greater efficiency and increased productivity in the use of capital and labor in our benchmarking over the past five years.

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What’s Holding Up Buyers And How To Meet Them Where They Are With Chris Perrine, Vice President of G2 Asia Pacific (Pod 643 + Video)

SaaStr

They can provide big-picture ROI, but they don’t have hard ROI metrics, benchmarks, and success stories. We’re seeing a growing trend of buyers making SaaS purchases through global marketplaces such as the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace. If you have an in-depth ROI figure, talk to customers very early about this value.