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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Map your spend to your product roadmap, then attach an expected ROI and timeline for the expected return.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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2019 SaaS Benchmarks: Actionable Advice to Accelerate Your Growth

OpenView Labs

This week we released our third annual Expansion SaaS Benchmarks report. More than 500 SaaS companies participated in this year’s survey, which covered topics like financial performance, product led growth adoption, founder priorities and much more. But benchmarks alone are not enough. Is this slipping over time?

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. Measuring tech debt.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. Measuring tech debt.

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What is Considered a Good NPS Score and How To Improve It?

User Pilot

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. You have to compare your NPS to your industry benchmark as well as your competitors and see where you rank. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? Some industries like SaaS will have an average NPS of 30.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks. This team in turn can be trusted to execute on growth, product, hiring, etc.