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5 Interesting Learnings From Salesforce at $24B+ ARR

SaaStr

With 20% overall growth, but only 17% growth in deferred revenue / RPOs, churn is still a bit elevated. While most SaaS leaders seem to have seen a resumption to pre-Covid levels of churn, both Salesforce and Zendesk are still seeing relatively low churn — but higher than pre-Covid. Doubling By 2026 to $50B ARR.

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How to Stop Micromanaging After $1m-$2m ARR. You Have To.

SaaStr

In the past, we’ve touched on several different ideas to help you scale, to do Even Better: Imagine capital doesn’t matter. From $1m to $10m ARR or so, as you build your first management team: You shouldn’t be the VP of Sales Anymore As You Scale. How to scale a global tech ops team? Add a layer.

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The SaaS Financial Model You’ll Actually Update (Updated 2019)

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Finally, you could increase the accuracy of the Autopilot by making your Cost of Revenue (COR / COGS) section to be calculated as a percentage of revenue. Because costs such as hosting scale alongside your revenue, using the modified Autopilot will improve the accuracy of your forecasts. New Customers.

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The Remaining Performance Obligation (RPO) SaaS Metric

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This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. The former amount resides on the balance sheet as Deferred Revenue and has always been reported as required by GAAP.

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New ARR and CAC in Price-Ramped vs. Auto-Expanding Deals

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GAAP revenue. $1M. GAAP unbilled deferred revenue. $5M. ASC 606 revenue. $2M. ASC 606 revenue backlog. $4M. When I look at this is I see: GAAP is being conservative and saying “no cash, no revenue.” When I look at this is I see: GAAP is being conservative and saying “no cash, no revenue.”

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Startup Financial Model: Building a Startup Financial Model

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How did they scale their expenses as they grew? What's your monthly recurring revenue (MRR)? Offering annual-only memberships paid upfront defers revenue — which is good — but it can pose certain modeling challenges, such as keeping tabs on churn. Estimate additional expenses. Annual contracts matter.

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Top 5 Must Have FinTech Solutions in 2020

SaaSOptics

What if I told you that we have 1 full-time finance team member managing revenue operations with over 80 employees and 650+ customers? One person to manage expense reports, commissions, billing and invoicing, cap tables, revenue recognition, deferred revenue and more. Yes, you read that right.