Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Unlike these other companies, WorkDay has employed a huge professional services team in addition in investing massively in their R&D to create a broad suite of products. In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. Selling people’s time can’t be leveraged like software.

Benchmarks 111

Benchmarks Deferred Revenue Venture Capital Outsourced Development 111

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While a liability is everything the company owes (including, strangely, your deferred revenue ), assets are all the items a company owns. They are all the items owned by a company. Assets can be purchased using owner’s equity or liabilities. Classifying assets Assets can be classified in many different ways.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 52

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

If a company expands into a new geography, the benefits of that investment in new sales could take years. For product sales companies, once the sales are made, the investment is repaid more quickly. For SaaS companies, the investment is not recouped until after years of initial SaaS revenues.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Simplify accounting: Accounting can be a far bigger pain in the SaaS industry than other businesses, due to deferred revenue and other delayed revenue forms being common. Accounting software will keep all revenue assets organized. If it doesn’t save you time, then it’s not worth acquiring. Quickbooks.

Retention 56

Retention Pricing SaaS Payments Payment Methods 56

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Because this drives investment decisions.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

This often has an impact on SaaS businesses with deferred revenue streams. Matching GAAP principles govern how revenues are matched with expenses. Expenses of a revenue-producing activity are reported when the item or service is sold. More on this topic later!) Who Sets GAAP Accounting Standards?

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 59

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. The first is really automating the order to cash to renewal process for these businesses as well as providing automated revenue recognition and deferred revenue calculations in an automated fashion. What early stage capital providers are looking for.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40