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

Tom Tunguz

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.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

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.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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