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How The Stange and Odd World of Financial Accounting Drives Tech Acquisitions and Investments

SaaStr

But with that out of the way, let’s talk just enough about financial accounting to explain why Big Tech Companies both acquire smaller ones — and do corporate VC investment. Because in the short-term, it often costs basically close to nothing to acquire a smaller startup with cash on hand, or do a corporate VC investment.

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How The Strange and Odd World of Financial Accounting Drives Tech Acquisitions and Investments

SaaStr

But with that out of the way, let’s talk just enough about financial accounting to explain why Big Tech Companies both acquire smaller ones — and do corporate VC investment. Because in the short-term, it often costs basically close to nothing to acquire a smaller startup with cash on hand, or do a corporate VC investment.

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Customer Success benchmarks: headcount and budgets

ChurnZero

Customer Success benchmark: headcount How many people should be on a Customer Success team? of revenue or less…and overall 64% of respondents reported non-headcount budgets of $200,000 or less: a severe under-investment in this critical business function.” When asked about non-headcount budgets; 8.3%

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Customer Success benchmarks: headcount and budgets

ChurnZero

Customer Success benchmark: headcount How many people should be on a Customer Success team? of revenue or less…and overall 64% of respondents reported non-headcount budgets of $200,000 or less: a severe under-investment in this critical business function.” When asked about non-headcount budgets; 8.3%

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SaaS Is Growing Up: 4 Business Model Changes To Adopt with Notion Capital

SaaStr

Some of the changes we’ve seen in the last year or two include: CAC reduction Headcount optimization Price complexity Quality of revenue A different environment means a different strategy, and Notion Capital lays out four business model changes that could be helpful based on what peers are doing. You don’t want to be there.

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Almost Everyone’s Gotten Radically More Efficient in SaaS

SaaStr

Yes many public SaaS companies have done some sort of layoffs the past 12 months, they were often more really reorgs, though, without any net decrease in headcount. Monday has always been a break-out leader but has invested heavily in sales and marketing to SMBs. The key was “simply” keeping headcount flat. #3.

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Big on impact; short on investment: Key trends from the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study

ChurnZero

of Customer Success teams have fewer than 50 team members, and most teams surveyed fall well below industry benchmarks on CS team headcount. That number gets higher in larger companies, companies with larger Customer Success teams, and companies who have invested in a Customer Success platform. However, 76.5% of companies.