Money
Margin
The share of each pound of sales that's left after paying for what it cost to make. Sell for £100, spend £70 making it, and the margin is 30 per cent.
You'll hear it as
Hardware margins are thin. Software margins are why investors like SaaS.
Why it matters to you.
Your hosting bill, your support load and your discounts all come out of margin. Engineers move it more than they think.
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