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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. 71% is the public SaaS company median. But these contracts produce compelling economics.

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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 This is a v2.0 New Gross Margins?

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

OPEXEngine

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. The SaaS operating model requires execution across functional activities.

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

OPEXEngine

Heading into the 2020 planning season, SaaS FP&A teams are working to finalize 2020 budgets and planning. 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.

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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. The beauty of the subscription model is that for the first time in the history of business, relationships are baked directly into how you make money. Click to enlarge.

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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. We hire a third-party firm. We also measure NPS, and we benchmark that across all acquisitions. Gabby: We probably track 50 to 60 KPIs, so I’m not going to multiply that times four. That would just be crazy.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Automation Anywhere and Algolia — January 17, 2020

SaaStr

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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