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A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This metric is more self-explanatory, so I won’t go into detail.

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The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. But Google Cloud, Azure, and GitLab are all benefiting and on fire. In the SMB space, the biggest problem is onboarding for complex products. Go more Enterprise or SMB. Crowdstrike is up and still grew 35%.

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Best Applicant Tracking Systems for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Whether youre a startup , an SMB , or a global enterprise , the right ATS can streamline your recruitment process, save time, and help attract top talent in a competitive market. Its tailored more to SMB use cases. Theres even a feature to track DE&I metrics (like diversity of candidates at each stage) for inclusive hiring.

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

The exact playbook to move from SMB to enterpriseincluding partner enablement, segmentation, and incentive design. 85% of your customers being SMB and mid-market to at the end of that six years, it was 75%, uh, enterprise. Why retention isn’t just a CS metricand how to build a sales team that cares about it.

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GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything — Microsoft’s VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith

Sales Hacker

And then I want you to go into this tool, pull out usage metrics. cloud infrastructure and you know, many thousands, hundreds of thousands of startups, you know, built on top of Azure. So pulling in usage metrics. And I want you to score those leads, or I want you to qualify that. You just say, do this step, do this step.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This metric is more self-explanatory, so I won’t go into detail.

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A Look Back at Q4 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This metric is more self-explanatory, so I won’t go into detail.

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