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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. Even without any breakdowns, obviously the CEO was fully aware of the company’s increased spending in sales and marketing. This is a v2.0 New Gross Margins?

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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. Stress levels were high.

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

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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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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