OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With last year in the rearview mirror, we can look at OpenView’s 2020 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report to tell us how exactly COVID-19 impacted SaaS companies. More SaaS companies will move to usage-based pricing. In fact, seven of the nine recent software IPOs with the best net dollar retention have a usage-based pricing model.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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? They want to do it, but there are all these hurdles in the way and the price is huge. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. Now it’s table stakes.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

2019 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks. Our 2019 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report is live! That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Expansion Saas Benchmarks Data Explorer. What is product led growth?

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Pricing and support: The tools should offer a range of pricing options and provide strong customer support to help you address any issues that may arise. 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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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Below we survey the cutting-edge LLMs of 2025 both commercial and open-source highlighting their key features, performance benchmarks, and use cases in AI workflows. Performance-wise, GPT-4 Turbo leads many benchmarks. Key takeaways: GPT-4 Turbo (128K context) is state-of-the-art for generative tasks, with strong benchmarks.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS). We sometimes hear companies call themselves “SaaS” companies, because they sell subscriptions, but they do not host software.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

Benchmarking: CAC Payback Goals. In general, most people think of 12 months as a fantastic CAC payback and use this figure as their rule of thumb; however, it’s important to focus on peer benchmarks and not just rules of thumb. For example, perhaps your CAC payback is worse than peer benchmarks but your retention is best-in-class.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. Now it’s table stakes.

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Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. Do I have to remove the price tag?), If you’re just starting out, you can use Unbounce’s Conversion Benchmark Report or a variety of other resources to get a sense of where you should be hitting.).

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

It’s easy to get hung up on sectoral benchmarks that ignore the huge variety of business types covered by a term like “SaaS” – which range from the incredibly sticky, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, to services customers may only use rarely. All that matters is: The retention rate you have now. . #3 3 Find Upsell Opportunities!

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Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

There is more equality in opportunities, products are getting better and the prices are becoming more competitive and attractive to customers. Using John Grant of “ The New Marketing Manifesto ” words: “Authenticity is the benchmark against which all brands are now judged.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. Now it’s table stakes.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” It is vital for mapping out values: what value to offer in the market, how it’s priced, and how it’s paid for by your customers. If only that statement were as true as it seemed.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Here’s a list of the top freemium pricing strategy resources: Table of Contents. Freemium benchmarks. A Look at the Impact of Freemium Pricing on SaaS Products.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

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. Our CEO, of course, was there.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Option 1: Early in my career, I was asked my opinion about enterprise pricing for a new product. She has published over 100 industry-leading research papers on the strategies, benchmarks, and best practices of high-growth sales and marketing organizations. She excels in founder-led to scalable sales motions. It was new to me.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 3, 2025

LLM Performance Benchmark Comparison (2025) Model MMLU HumanEval GSM8K / AIME Context Window Token Speed Pricing (per 1M tokens) DeepSeek R1-0528 84.9% LLM Performance Benchmark Comparison (2025) Model MMLU HumanEval GSM8K / AIME Context Window Token Speed Pricing (per 1M tokens) DeepSeek R1-0528 84.9% SWE-bench: 72.5%

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

responded with genuine empathy: Aw, Im really sorry to hear that… Remember, its just one moment not a reflection of who you are… Im here either way if you want to talk or need a distraction. for GPT-4 on the same benchmark This means GPT-4.5 In one benchmark of factual Q&A, GPT-4.5s In contrast, GPT-4.5

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