OPEXEngine

JUNE 29, 2020

Benchmark the health of your SaaS company, and. It depends, assuming you run your service from AWS or a similar cloud platform, we recommend using EBITDA — since your COGS scales with your revenue, and your gross margin is pretty consistent, this metric should be sufficient. So which profit metric should you use?

Benchmarks 52

Benchmarks SaaS Sales Hiring Scale 52

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? The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law.

Enterprise 110

Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 110

Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

Multi-cloud integration CSPM solutions operate across multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others. They provide prebuilt templates based on industry standards, such as CIS Benchmarks and NIST , while also enabling customization for specific business needs. Key capabilities of CSPM solutions 1.

Cloud 52

Cloud Underperforming Technical Team Management compliance 52

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?”

Cloud 111

Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 111

User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Through her guidance, Maja has helped several companies scale their yearly revenues from $20 million to $60-100 million. Whether you’re launching a new AI product or scaling an existing product with AI features, Maja Voje’s insights will come in handy. But first, let’s go over the basics of a GTM strategy.

AI Search 105

AI Search Scale AI Strategy 105

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?

Sales Hiring 64

Sales Hiring Benchmarks AWS Scale 64

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

This also helps with budgeting, financial planning, and scaling. Amazon AWS is one of the best SaaS pricing examples with this model. AWS allows users to select the specific services they need and then use the pricing calculator to estimate their total yearly costs. Amazon pricing example.

Pricing 104

Pricing Strategy SaaS Scale 104

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. It’s a big reason OpenView’s Kyle Poyar just released The Usage-Based Pricing Playbook , a resource that helps companies scale to $100+ million ARR.

Product Marketing 91

Product Marketing Trends Scale Marketing 91

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.

Scale 96

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 96

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.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Software Review 40

The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Led by Sapphire Ventures , with participation from OMERS Ventures , Salesforce Ventures , and existing backers including General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules, this brings total funding for Contentful to $78.3 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

Technology 53

Technology Scale PayPal Software Delivery 53

OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

Numbers will be skewed in the early days because you won’t yet be operating at scale, but even at a small scale you will benefit from keeping your target CAC payback in sight and contemplating how you’re going to hit the goal. Benchmarking: CAC Payback Goals. When it comes to CAC payback, faster is (almost) always better.

Scale 53

Scale Development Team Review Software Review Benchmarks 53

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The company’s sole analyst at that time used AWS Athena to query them from the S3 bucket, created additional materialized views to combine and aggregate them, and visualized them into dashboards with Superset using its AWS Athena connector. We used our daily AWS RDS snapshots and loaded them daily to Snowflake tables.

Engineering 52

Engineering K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Data AWS 52

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.

Retention 95

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 95

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.

Scale 69

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 69

Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. 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.). Is Amazon worth imitating, even on a smaller scale? You betcha.

Scale 111

Scale Branding Underperforming Technical Team AWS 111

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This week, we’re proud to unveil its successor: Resolution Bot , Intercom’s upgraded support chatbot that scales your team by answering 33% of common questions. Is it just going to come in and answer their questions, or is it actually going to resolve end user issues at scale? It did a terrific job, but we knew we could do even better.

Machine Learning 23

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Scale Banking 23

Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Using John Grant of “ The New Marketing Manifesto ” words: “Authenticity is the benchmark against which all brands are now judged.” Before starting to scale even one demand generation channel, you’ll need to take into consideration your feedback loop. Measure Everything.

Outsourcing Services 53

Outsourcing Services Branding Outsourced Development Scale 53

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To solve your billing problems, it’s important to make sure your automated systems scale well: knowing when to work behind the scenes, and when to notify the customer.” To do this at scale, you’ll need to get a handle on all of your customer data. ” Ken Johnson, Partner, Customer Success, Churn Buster.

Churn 52

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 52

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% The Next 2.6B

AI Search 254

AI Search AI CTO Hire ChatGPT 254

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Sure, in established businesses benchmarking and historical performance can set some precedence. We do budgets on a small scale at Semco. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. But really, how useful and specific can that really be? ” — Charles Towers-Clark, CEO POD Group.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

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.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

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.” However, unless your field is well-conditioned for a monopoly, and unless your company is (or can become) that monopoly, you’ll find the commission model very tough to scale.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. Prior to their IPO, Domo raised funding from the likes of Benchmark, Founders Fund, a16, Greylock and IVP to name a few. Our CEO, of course, was there. Our CFO went through the recession at his company.

Scale 232

Scale Leadership Technology Strategy 232

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. Learn how using a merchant of record can help you scale your business faster and remove many of the headaches of breaking into new markets and transacting across borders.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 147

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. I started my career in tech sales 4 years ago as a SDR and have since scaled two SDR teams. What you do matters, but character matters more.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136

SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Top 15 VC Podcasts 2023 [Listed Alphabetically] 100x Entrepreneur 100x Entrepreneur – By Siddhartha Ahluwalia Siddhartha Ahluwalia is a 2x founder, VC & Startup Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

Venture Capital 10

Venture Capital Scale Entrepreneurship EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 10

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% Claude 4 Opus 88.8%

Artificial Intelligence 59

Artificial Intelligence Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 59

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And you get folks like Tobi at Shopify and also this room, I’d like to think, are now part of this club that’s driving tech innovation and tech value creation and job creation on a massive massive scale.

Cloud 196

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 196

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

OpenAI plans to roll it out to the regular ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) users after scaling up their servers, given the high demand and the models large size. for GPT-4 on the same benchmark This means GPT-4.5 In one benchmark of factual Q&A, GPT-4.5s Initially, access to GPT-4.5 For context, GPT-4.5 In contrast, GPT-4.5

ChatGPT 40

ChatGPT AI Search Software Review AI 40