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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Mailchimp’s Co-Founder, Y Combinator’s CEO, Workshop Wednesday and More!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time. When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit. Live: SaaStr Workshop Wednesday with Battery Ventures on SaaS Metrics.

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Rule of 40: How to benchmark your SaaS growth

OPEXEngine

Yes, you might be burning a ton of money on Customer Acquisition Costs, but if you do manage to dominate your market, then this will give you the power to realize higher margins in the future. If your SaaS business is in its early years, the goal is really to realize product-market fit, and to grow as quickly as possible.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

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? Take your product, sell it.

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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

This metric represents how long it takes, in months, to pay off the costs of acquiring a given customer on a gross margin basis. Usage-based pricing (UBP) , also known as consumption-based pricing, allows customers to pay for products according to how much they use. These metrics are an indicator of product-market fit.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

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? Take your product, sell it.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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CAC Payback Basics: What It Is, How to Calculate It and Why It Matters

OpenView Labs

While CAC is accepted as a cost of doing business, it should not be a blank check for your sales & marketing team. Even at the board level, there is no universally accepted framework for calculating, managing, and positively affecting the metric. With that said, no metric exists in a silo, and CAC payback is no exception.

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