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Dear SaaStr: What “Quotas” Should My VP of Customer Success and VP of Product Have?

SaaStr

For a VP of Customer Success (VPCS), their “quota” or ownership should revolve around two key metrics: Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Gross Retention Rate (GRR). NRR is the North Star metric for customer successit measures how much revenue youre retaining and expanding from your existing customer base.

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Best Cloud Web Hosting

Neil Patel

A private cloud can be created internally by the entity that needs it or offered by an external private cloud hosting provider. A more recent innovation is the virtual private cloud, which combines many advantages of both options. Today, managed cloud hosting uses a virtual private cloud.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed. From the perspective of cloud architecture, the variable cost model means translating an incremental unit of cloud resources into an incremental unit of customer value.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While they are relying on NPS and customer satisfaction as good proxy metrics, they’re also looking for more tangible ways to measure returns, such as revenue generation, savings, efficiency, and accuracy gains, depending on their use case. Leaders generally customize models through fine-tuning instead of building models from scratch.

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

SaaStr

We aligned with finance, with sales operations, as well as the sales leaders to say, here are some impacts that a cloud marketplace could have on our business and what would your metrics or successful outcomes be? And we started small, we didn’t want to boil the ocean in one day.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

VPC and VPN. Virtual Private Cloud and Virtual Private Network provide a secure environment only meant for a specific user and your provider should be able to facilitate these environments. VPC/VPN is arguably a better option than multi-tenant instances, providing customers with more control over their data.