Benchmarks can be extremely helpful in guiding decision-making or they can be incredibly dangerous.
Great first article! The danger of benchmarking can be big also for more established companies, awareness is key.
100%! Operators and investors are both benchmarking at all sizes of companies. Too often though they don't come to the right conclusion/decisions based on their review of the benchmarks
Other interesting sources are:
- SaaS Capital (Operational expenses and ARR/FTE) -> https://www.saas-capital.com/research/
- Battery Ventures State of the Open Cloud (just released) -> https://www.battery.com/blog/opencloud-report-2022/
Great first article! The danger of benchmarking can be big also for more established companies, awareness is key.
100%! Operators and investors are both benchmarking at all sizes of companies. Too often though they don't come to the right conclusion/decisions based on their review of the benchmarks
Other interesting sources are:
- SaaS Capital (Operational expenses and ARR/FTE) -> https://www.saas-capital.com/research/
- Battery Ventures State of the Open Cloud (just released) -> https://www.battery.com/blog/opencloud-report-2022/