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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. Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. in revenue in fiscal year 2020, to $432m in the first three quarters of fiscal 2022.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Cost of Revenue Let’s start with your Cost of Revenue.

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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. Chief Customer Officer or Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

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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. Ability to accurately benchmark key metrics against peers and market leaders.

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

ChurnZero

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. They have a core philosophy that you cannot have a successful high-growth software company if your core metrics around Customer Success are not strong, including NPS. We hire a third-party firm. They give us NPS goals.

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QBR (Quarterly Business Review) vs. EBR (Executive Business Review): And the Winner Is…

SmartKarrot

Only when some metric goes off the benchmark can you know something is wrong. These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts. Top Metrics You need to Consider for EBR/QBR sessions. These metrics will be instrumental in creating an overall process. Discuss terms of renewal.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When we benchmarked ourself, when we started this company, we didn’t say we wanted to be the biggest company in Raleigh. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. The world’s your market, right?

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