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Capitalizing Software Development Costs in a SaaS Business

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That said, when it comes to the capitalization of software development costs, GAAP has it dead wrong. So even if you do not fully buy into the arguments below, your SaaS company is in the minority if it is still capitalizing software development expenses. State of the Market: Here is the good news.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

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Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. Tech debt refers to issues in legacy code that slow the development process, impact developers’ efficiency and productivity, and negatively impact the quality of the final output.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. Tech debt refers to issues in legacy code that slow the development process, impact developers’ efficiency and productivity, and negatively impact the quality of the final output.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

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You most likely are linking to external sources of data, external software packages that you embed in the product and turn into what you’re delivering to the customers. And if you can unshackle the thinking from just software as a service, I think it is value delivered digitally. You have to keep record of everything.

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I’m gonna kind of seek out some benchmarks to see if we should try. So you should look for people who are, regardless of their level of seniority, are always eager to learn, get the feedback and can, can take it constructively. Again, I dated myself even more so it was the first popular agile software development process.