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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

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The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

It produces a challenging messaging strategy because if your primary business model is selling support on an open-source project, you’re kind of incentivizing your team to build shitty software, and nobody ends up happy. A lot of your top-of-funnel is focused on converting open-source users to paying customers.