http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/ Connecting the dots ... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:10:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13519 Xero’s logical partnering | AccMan Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:29:34 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13519 [...] Benchmarking the Benchmarkers [...] [...] Benchmarking the Benchmarkers [...]

]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13486 Jason M. Lemkin Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:37:03 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13486 It would be very interesting ... but I wonder if it's truly useful. You can get the metrics for all the public SaaS / software companies, and it's very easy to compute what your own metrics need to be to be profitable and successful. So what if venture backed company X is blowing all its venture cash on sales and marketing spend? Does it really matter? What is takes to actually succeed is public ... It would be very interesting … but I wonder if it’s truly useful. You can get the metrics for all the public SaaS / software companies, and it’s very easy to compute what your own metrics need to be to be profitable and successful. So what if venture backed company X is blowing all its venture cash on sales and marketing spend? Does it really matter? What is takes to actually succeed is public …

]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13481 Dennis Howlett Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:35:25 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/08/22/benchmarking-the-benchmarkers/#comment-13481 The only way that's going to happen is if the private companies are prepared to share their data with a trusted third party. The only way that’s going to happen is if the private companies are prepared to share their data with a trusted third party.

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