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Roundtrip Revenue:  Probably, Just Do It.

Roundtrip Revenue: Probably, Just Do It.

By Jason M. Lemkin on February 5, 2015

If you’ve been around since the Web 1.0 days, a certain phrase may send shivers up your spine — “Roundtrip Revenue.”  People went to jail at AOL for this, folks, overstating revenue by as much as $1 billion that wasn’t really real.  It was just matched against AOL purchases, making the revenues in essence nonexistent. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, revenue recognition, roundtrip revenue, SaaS, SaaStr, startups

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NetSuite, Corefino and the growing world of Revenue Recognition

By Brian Sommer on August 3, 2010

Revenue Recognition is a growing accounting requirement impacting companies in a growing number of industries. Software and BPO vendors are creating solutions just for this space.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged accounting, corefino, netsuite, revenue recognition, SaaS

Tuesday's Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats To Charge For Back Maintenance Fees

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats To Charge For Back Maintenance Fees

By R "Ray" Wang on April 13, 2010

Four Common Customer Scenarios Will Trigger Vendors To Raise The Back Maintenance Fee Discussion Back maintenance fees describe the amount an organization would have paid for maintenance if they would have continued to pay the usual stream required to access support, bug fixes, patches, and upgrade rights.  As economic conditions have worsened, many organizations have […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, 3rd party maintenance, Apps Strategy, back maintenance fees, best practices, bill of rights, bug fix, contract negotiations, contract strategy, cost reduction, CRM, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, erp, IT Strategy, license policy, license returns, revenue recognition, SaaS, SCM, self support, software as a service, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software pricing, software revenue recognition rules, software trends, Software Vendors, upgrade, vendor management, vendor strategy, vendor threats

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