Tag Archive for: SaaS

6 Headcount Planning Strategies That Won’t Blow Up Your Burn Rate

Most SaaS companies don’t run out of cash because the product failed. They run out of cash because they hired like maniacs. You see it after every funding round. One day it’s 14 people in a Slack thread. Three months later, it’s 43 full-timers, 7 open reqs, and a mysterious Enablement team nobody understands—but they’re […]

5 Budgeting Habits That Keep SaaS CFOs Up at Night

Every SaaS CFO knows the drill: You lock the budget. You run the numbers. You present the deck. And three weeks later, the CEO pivots the go-to-market strategy—and your model collapses in public. This isn’t a tooling issue. It’s a strategy issue. Specifically, five budgeting habits that look like discipline but behave like chaos. If […]

8 Signs Your SaaS Forecast Is Just a Fancy Guess (Not a Real Strategy)

Every SaaS company has a forecast.But very few have a SaaS forecasting strategy. There’s a difference. A real forecast guides hiring, unlocks budget, and tells your board what’s coming before the spreadsheet breaks. A fake one is just math-washed optimism—numbers built to match the plan, not the pipeline. So how do you know which one […]