You probably know tons of different SaaS and subscription metrics, and you probably heard you should be measuring a few of them no matter what. Actually even we have told you that on the “5 metrics that every subscription business should be measuring” article.

Guess what? That isn’t necessarily true.

Don’t get me wrong, those five metrics are still key and should definitely be measured for most part of the SaaS and subscription business, but the whole point here is the stage of your business. Imagine yourself and you co-fouder running a recently created startup in a garage and measuring things like EBITDA, deferred revenue or sales quota per rep. That doesn’t make sense right?