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Samsara S-1: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. The first is the company sell 3 or 5 year contracts that are non-refundable and non-cancellable at relatively small ACVs of $35k.

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Annual Plans Reduce Churn Dramatically, Data Finds

ProfitWell

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO at Wistia , wants to know what proportion of paid plans should be annual versus monthly. To answer Brendan's question, we gathered data from just over two and a half thousand subscription companies. Click to enlarge.

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

The siloed management structure paralleled the key components of Operating Expense, making it easy to report backward-looking Income Statement expenses and recognized revenues, but not cross-functional customer and product lifecycle metrics, critical to managing a SaaS company. We’ve seen both evolutions of the Chief Performance Officer.

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SaaS FP&A – Are You Up to the Challenge?

OPEXEngine

Over the past decade benchmarking software and SaaS companies , I’ve had the chance at OPEXEngine to work with hundreds of amazing Finance execs who work incredibly hard at getting the right data to support their company’s goals. SaaS Finance Benchmarks. Skills & Experience.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. We also measure NPS, and we benchmark that across all acquisitions.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. Find out here.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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