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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

After raising their seed round, Nick made his first big marketing bet by hiring Ed Shelley as their Director of Content. That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Take HubSpot, for example: over the last five years, they’ve grown their app marketplace from 40 to 350 integrations.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. So much more of an inside sales mentality, hub-based selling, predominantly in North America, not really into strong relationship-based selling and the trust that he talked about.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. The AOV can be calculated by dividing the total number of orders received by the total sales revenue. Customer relationship management (CRM).

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Most of you who ever have done enterprise sales, you know enterprise sales are spreadsheet-driven. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Again, to make it very simple, think about that just like a PayPal, but for the enterprise, for the Fortune 500 in the world. We take complexity out.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? We had a marketplace payer solution. That’s been a major focus.