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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Companies must prove they have the growth, revenue, and users to warrant serious talent. Career Growth.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). G&A), especially in tougher market conditions, is often a matter of assessing office space, worker productivity, legal costs, etc.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? We do our marketing… on the internet.”) I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens.

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OPEXEngine SaaS Conversations Recap

OPEXEngine

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Lauren and Rob shared a range of benchmarks that executive management should consider to accurately assess R&D ROI and resource allocations. .

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Benefits of using Expense Categories in SaaS The main expense categories for any SaaS company are: Cost of Revenue Research & Development Sales & Marketing General & Admin These four categories are the standard for describing costs and expenses of any SaaS company from Salesforce to Zoom to your startup. New Gross Margins?

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

OPEXEngine

Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. Chief Customer Officer or Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). The Chief Customer Officer includes all of Sales and Marketing and covers the whole customer journey, from lead through customer renewal.

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Top 11 PLG Experts You Must Follow on Social Media in 2022

Frontegg

Under his supervision, HubSpot has become a true industry benchmark. Eric is also an Advisory Board Member for Udacity’s digital marketing curriculum. #4 Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. 4 – Ramli John.