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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Businesses must make it easy and painless for customers to go from having a problem to getting into the product and solving it with as few barriers as possible. Marketplace partners.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. But then instead of a success plan, it’s a business plan. So it starts there.

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How to Choose CDP Tools: A Guide + Alternatives

User Pilot

What is a customer data platform (CDP)? A customer data platform is a tool enabling you to collect, analyze , and understand customer behavior and use those insights to drive customer success. You want to be able to process, update and make sense of customer data (and customer behavior) in real time.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Shanks has trained and advised 100’s of companies on SPEAR Selling to increase sales pipeline in all types of sales functions (inside sales, field sales, customer success, channel sales).

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