Baremetrics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If you’ve seen our recent articles on AWS migration, the updated stripe integration and the acquisition of Flightpath Finance, it will come as no surprise to you that our team is getting pretty busy! You may have noticed some exciting things happening here at Baremetrics. Got a free Baremetrics account? So that’s pretty important.

AWS 94

AWS Forecasting Onboarding Finance 94

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The warehouse is then optimized for efficient access (typically through SQL) to that data, with a number of other properties layered in (like governance, access, security, etc).

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

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 86

Sales Enablement Artificial Intelligence Branding Sales Hiring 86

OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

Selecting the right usage metric. There are numerous potential usage metrics that SaaS companies could use in their pricing. Picking the wrong usage metric could have disastrous consequences for long-term growth. The best usage metric meets five key criteria: value-based, flexible, scalable, predictable, and feasible.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

A key aspect of the analysis stage of your FinOps program is the prediction of future cloud resource requirements, known as usage forecasting. As such, FinOps best practice involves continuously evaluating the metrics you’re tracking and ensuring they reflect your business objectives and the latest developments in cloud service.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 97

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2021

From determining the correct value metric to billing the customer the right amount at the right time, these are the crucial steps to consider when implementing a financially strong consumption model. Chargify takes a closer look at the success of Digital Ocean, AWS, Mailgun, MessageBird, and Wordstream. Miscellaneous.

Pricing 64

Pricing Scale Forecasting AWS 64

Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. The pace of change will matter more than the headline number and focusing on rate change will help you spot inflection points, and improve your forecasting and overall trend better. Further Reading.

SaaS 52

SaaS DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Proper expense categorization improves your visibility into your company’s spending while enabling more accurate metrics and forecasting. As a result, we typically spend the first couple of weeks with a new startup helping their bookkeeper to re-categorize their expenses before we can even begin forecasting or calculating metrics.

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution. Thus, almost axiomatically, the model exacerbates the challenge of accurately forecasting revenue, as well as setting accurate quotas. Reporting, systems, and tools.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. Get ProfitWell Metrics.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

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.” With a revenue model, you can consolidate your target audience, figure out how to market to them, and forecast growth. Moreover, PPU kills your Monthly Active User metric.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

I think it was 2011 when they did the annual analyst meeting, and they dropped their revenue forecast by $100 million. We controlled a lot of how the pieces came together and what were the operational metrics that we built to report up to the CEO. And the stock popped. We thought, “What in the world just happened?”

Scale 212

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 212

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

Adnan Chaudhry, SVP of Sales at Salesforce, then provides actionable takeaways on how to refocus your sales teams, engage with customers, adjust your sales comp and how you can properly forecast in today’s new landscape. This podcast is sponsored by Guru. And then there are people who just go completely inactive.

Technical Advisors 216

Technical Advisors Engagement Startup Benchmarks 216

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

which activities are classified as COGS vs. S&M), cash flow forecast, etc. are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. I’m confused considering I’ve already forecasted this to my leader. It allowed us to create a game plan and forecast with confidence.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130