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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. Our biggest customers are externally these merchants that depend on us, but internally we have more than 300 engineers that depend on the tooling, platform and infrastructure we provide. One of the things I found as I’m desperately Googling “What is DevOps?”,

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. It’s up to you if you want to group up all software in one category under Cost of Revenue, or several software categories under hosting, support, and service delivery. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.