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SaaStr
JUNE 4, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What’s the Harder Part About SaaS Companies, At Each Stage? Most SaaS products are inexpensive. Enough to pay some salaries and AWS bills, but it’s not that much. You start making up for it in volume — with headcount. A related post here: 6 Things in SaaS That Are Only Obvious At Scale.
SaaStr
JANUARY 25, 2022
Most SaaS products are inexpensive. Enough to pay some salaries and AWS bills, but it’s not that much. You start making up for it in volume — with headcount. The post Dear SaaStr: What is the Hardest Part About Starting a SaaS Company? The hardest part changes every 12–24 months. Not enough to pay even a single salary.
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SaaStr
MAY 31, 2023
It’s one of the few still commanding a premium multiple in today’s world, and still growing at tremendous rates: Snowflake is also a barometer of everything in SaaS and Cloud, because a significant amount of its revenue is consumption-based, at least in part. AWS is seeing this, and so is Snowflake. Not none, just less.
SaaStr
APRIL 3, 2021
DigitalOcean is growing more slowly than its mega competitors Azure, AWS, etc. If nothing else, you can pretty reliability track headcount growth on LinkedIn). Especially in a growing market, like most SaaS categories, you can both grow and fall behind at the same time. That’s a big, big gap. More here. #2.
Clouded Judgement
MARCH 22, 2024
Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 1, 2020
OpenView recently analyzed the publicly traded SaaS companies with a self-service, go-to-market strategy (including Zoom). Sales still makes up 25% of their headcount on average. Sales and business development headcount increased by 45% year-on-year versus just 33% in non-sales roles (the full data is available here ).
Outseta
JANUARY 20, 2020
In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way. How the hell does that happen?
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