Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. It’s up to you if you want to group up all software in one category under Cost of Revenue, or several software categories under hosting, support, and service delivery. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Gartner is estimating that the cloud services industry as a whole will outpace the growth of overall IT services by a factor of three, with SaaS making up $143.7 Here are some of the biggest trends in the industry right now: Cloud-based Services. Churn rate is how many customers are leaving your service in a given period.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

You train the models, and it’s an iterative process that requires the right measures and the right data. Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars. When you train a model, it’s trial and error.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

This is basically designed around there being an intensive human interaction and human process to convince businesses to adopt your tools. High touch sales, on the opposite, since they’re much more human intensive in the process, the sales team is usually a pretty big beating heart of the organization. It’s hard.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. We’re doing everything we possibly can to continue to service our customers and have them have a really positive experience during this time. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yes, they might kick the can down the road a little longer, but they only delay the inevitable while giving customers an awful experience in the meantime. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments. Of course, you know better.

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