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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Many of them said headcount management and spend were common levers they pulled, given the immediate and significant impact they have on spend. This is why there’s no one-size-fits-all advice for scaling efficiently because every company is different. The forecasted median growth rate is more tepid now, around 35%.

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SaaS Company Benchmarking: Leveraging Metrics for Performance Insights

OPEXEngine

Working with your management team, you then develop a bottom up forecast for expenses. Bottom-Up Expense Forecasting. Benchmarking also provides useful data on spending levels across the major expense categories, i.e., COR, R&D, S&M, and G&A, and well as specific data on headcount for each team within these categories.

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The why, when, and how of customer (re-)segmentation with ChurnZero CCO Alli Tiscornia

ChurnZero

If (nearly) missed targets are becoming the norm, it might be time for you to dust off and revamp your customer segmentation strategy. Alli: Sales projections were based on both white space and sales forecast. Alli: Customer employee headcount aligned well for us with contract value and customer revenue.