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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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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Although the conversion rates would eventually drop as lower quality leads would come to your site, you could account for that in your forecast. This is a v2.0

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Building a Data Engineering Stack That Boosts Scalability

Chart Mogul

Analyze our performance and identify problem points Highlight the best performing lead sources Run sales forecasting Facilitate strategic decision-making Run our sales process and communicate with customers In addition, ChartMogul teams use various tools to manage go-t0-market functions, including Zendesk, Customer.io, and Livestorm.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 15 min read Forecasts, budgets, and performance targets; these activities have long been seen by business people as critical activities in the operation of companies of almost any size. Simply put, activities like budgeting and forecasting are not compatible with self management.

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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

Meanwhile, this week, the IMF cut its global growth forecast for 2019 to 3%, potentially the weakest in a decade. Meanwhile, the global public cloud software as a service (SaaS) market is hitting an annual run rate of $100B in 2019 and forecast to grow to US $157 billion in 2020, more than doubling the market size from 2014.

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How to categorize expenses in a SaaS startup

Baremetrics

Proper expense categorization improves your visibility into your company’s spending while enabling more accurate metrics and forecasting. As a result, we typically spend the first couple of weeks with a new startup helping their bookkeeper to re-categorize their expenses before we can even begin forecasting or calculating metrics.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to their IPO, Domo raised funding from the likes of Benchmark, Founders Fund, a16, Greylock and IVP to name a few. And prior to their IPO, Domo raised funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and IVP, to name a few. And the stock popped.

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