OPEXEngine

JUNE 29, 2020

Since these companies aren’t growing quickly, they have to compensate with high cash flow and high EBITDA margins if they want to be seen as attractive. So which profit metric should you use? What if your business has a low growth rate?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boy, is this relevant when you’re interpreting data, says DePodesta, who warns against assuming historical metrics are meaningful. For example, instead of agonizing over how to interpret vanity metrics like visitors and bounce rates, graduate to more consequential transactions like lead form submissions and conversion ratios.

Sales Enablement 84

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. Why does Manny believe it is so important to track pipeline coverage as one of your core metrics? This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

CAC, and more specifically CAC payback (how long it takes to recoup your customer acquisition costs), are key SaaS go-to-market metrics, and leading businesses make the metric a board-level priority and have ongoing discussions to ensure that CAC payback is consistent and predictable. Benchmarking: CAC Payback Goals.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams. Various compensation models can present a related challenge. You might also like: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): Everything You Need to Know – Customer Acquisition Cost is a vital metric that ascertains the amount of money needed to acquire a customer, but is that all?

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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.” Moreover, PPU kills your Monthly Active User metric. If only that statement were as true as it seemed. Regardless of what you produce, administrative overheads will also apply.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. There’s details, metrics, and no one cared. Is that about the…?

Underperforming Technical Team 244

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. Why does Manny believe it is so important to track pipeline coverage as one of your core metrics? Innovation is about empathy with your customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. The metrics have changed on top of the funnel.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. They’re awful.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A hundred percent of our economics are shared, meaning: Not that every person has the same compensation in the fund, but it’s not that if your deal does better than my deal in given fund, that you’re going to get juiced up and I’m going to get juiced down. Amplify doesn’t have attribution for deals. It is a proxy.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you. If you sit on the sidelines, trying to assess ideas and look at market metrics and things like that. Dharmesh: And there's some value to that, but it doesn't compensate for the opportunity you have. Because it doesn't take that much to.

Payment Methods 40

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you. If you sit on the sidelines, trying to assess ideas and look at market metrics and things like that. Dharmesh: And there's some value to that, but it doesn't compensate for the opportunity you have. Because it doesn't take that much to.

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Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140