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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 15 min read Forecasts, budgets, and performance targets; these activities have long been seen by business people as critical activities in the operation of companies of almost any size. Simply put, activities like budgeting and forecasting are not compatible with self management.

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What Is FinOps and How Can It Help Businesses Scale Their Financial Processes

Baremetrics

Image source In sectors that only mobilize cloud computing in an auxiliary capacity, calculating cloud costs is a relatively straightforward task. A key aspect of the analysis stage of your FinOps program is the prediction of future cloud resource requirements, known as usage forecasting. Which cloud service providers do you use?

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Leveraging AI in SaaS: Current Trends and Future Directions

How To Buy Saas

Platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, offered scalable infrastructure that could handle growth without performance issues, revolutionizing IT operations. Mobile-friendly design. In the mid-2010s, SaaS got a mobile makeover. The adoption of cloud-based software.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

The last large one was mobile, and most internet companies were able to replicate their success in mobile. Companies build a deep understanding of how they achieved product/market fit in the first market, and make as few tweaks as possible to adapt the product/market fit to these adjacent audiences.

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11 Popular types of revenue models used today

ProfitWell

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. If only that statement were as true as it seemed. Labor costs.