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5 Interesting Learnings from Upwork at $400,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic. But it should be.

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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Revenue from irregular overages should be bucketed together, separately from contracted ARR.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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Best Time Tracking Software

Neil Patel

Clockify – Best Reporting Features Time Doctor – Best for Employee Monitoring Toggl Track – Best for Holding Everyone Accountable TSheets – Best for GPS Monitoring Tick – Best for SMB Time Management. By integrating with services like Quickbooks and PayPal, these tools can handle the job in a few clicks.

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An Inside Look at My Digital Marketing Agencies Around the World

Neil Patel

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.