Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Cost of Revenue Let’s start with your Cost of Revenue. The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. A SaaStr Classic!! million in 2013 to $115.9

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

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. For example, Amplitude is a product analytics software.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Most people don’t want to customize their software. And especially when there’s a polarizing change, everybody shows up to work wanting to do right by the people who are using your software all day. Is there hiring decisions? And there was one line of thinking that simpler was better. Is it product decisions?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: Whereas if you’re a software company, you can wait until, you don’t have to compel people to come in sooner than they feel safe. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Harry Stebbings: So given the centrality of that role there and the ever increasing prominence of it, I guess my next question is for operators listening, when is the right time to hire that first CIO?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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