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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. While not a GAAP-metric, it’s widely adopted and understood (examples here , here and here ). This is a v2.0 Don’t forget the payroll’s subaccounts).

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. You need to invest at least a year or even two years.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

So the external one is, the metrics bore out that we have made the right decision here. Is there hiring decisions? Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO. Tell me, what’s the hardest role to hire for today? Were there lessons from it? In what ways do you think the writing is so powerful?

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Dharmesh Shah : So, I asked myself, “Okay well, who can best dig into this?