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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

.” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! It’s probably better described as re-occurring vs recurring. This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. Do you have ARR or ERR?

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Clouded Judgement 3.31.23

Clouded Judgement

The majority of COGS (revenue less COGS = gross profit) fall in hosting costs (ie AWS), and some customer support. If we believe that AI will ultimately allow us to do “more with less,” we may see headcount growth slow for traditional roles. Or hire less data engineers but write more SQL queries. The list goes on.

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. Recurly — optimized the performance of historical data imports.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

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. I challenge you to find one.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

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. I challenge you to find one.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

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. I challenge you to find one.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. Buildium’s valuation highlights how the idea that all revenue needs to be recurring doesn’t take any sort of nuance into consideration.