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Ben's posts on Saas Metrics and Forecasting

Month: May 2016

  • Profitability

Achieving Profitability in SaaS

Posted on May 18, 2016July 6, 2018by Ben Murray

Achieving Profitability in SaaS Underneath the hood, SaaS economics can get a little tricky and nuanced. Based on the economic realities of your business, do you know how fast (or slow) you are achieving profitability in SaaS? How fast a SaaS company can reach gross margin profitability is based on key SaaS metrics such as […]

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How I Forecast Operating Expenses

Posted on May 6, 2016July 5, 2018by Ben Murray
Forecast Operating Expenses

Forecast Operating Expenses In a previous post, I discussed how I forecast headcount expenses and the related physical heads and benefits. Of course, this is just one piece of the corporate expense puzzle. It is also important to have an easy and quick way to forecast operating expenses without hard coding numbers month-by-month. Excel Template […]

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