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Thanks to Cyvatar, Pacific Western Bank, Upzelo, UserGems, and Younium for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently. We are not like other banks.

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Benchmarking WorkDay's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

About the episode: Tien Tzuo is the Founder and CEO of Zuora, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of the rise of subscription business models. They have funding from some of the best in the business including the likes of Benchmark, Sequoia, Redpoint and Marc Benioff, just to name a few. Episode No.

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How I Built a Performant and Measurable Content Marketing Engine

Tom Tunguz

In almost every industry, startups and venture capital included, content marketing has become an essential tool for growth. Each week, I’ll review changes in Twitter audience using FollowerWonk and Wildfire’s Monitor tool to benchmark growth.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. One of the recent questions we had for members was to let us know what kind of benchmarking data and metrics they’d like to see FastSpring release. (An That includes: A global focus. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups).

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Key Takeaways from the 2022 KeyBanc SaaS Metrics Survey

Kellblog

One of my new benchmarking themes is that people need to pay more attention to matching their benchmarks with their aspirations. Margin profile of 77% subscription, 73% blended. 2] As I said in a recent speech, it’s the difference between benchmark off all SAT test takers and Ivy League applicants.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Taking pre-orders from customers , encouraging annual subscriptions , and even offering lifetime deals are just a few ways to make it work as a bootstrapping purist. Venture Capital.

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