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The open office floor plan: rethinking an awful idea

IT World

Some friends and I were talking about the new Google building at 2000 North Shoreline Blvd. As one person said, it looks like a sagging tent city covered in dragon scales (and not in a good way). in Mountain View, Calif. Truth be told, we’re not impressed. But the real kicker?

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10 Things That Always Work in Marketing with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin: Part 2 (Pod 653 + Video)

SaaStr

But as you get bigger and more well-funded, participate in traditional field marketing strategies because they account for 40% of revenue at scale. You can run your own conference, but third-party events like AWS, Dreamforce, SaaStr, and others allow you to get 40% of your pipe from their ability to draw in the best in the industry.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. We talked about growth.

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10 Smart Ways To Build Your Email List 10x Faster

Teamgate

Let’s say you have 2000 Facebook fans, 2000 followers on Twitter, and 2000 email subscribers. But one thing that makes email marketing so sexy is that it’s much easier to build a mailing list of 2000 people than to get 2000 new followers on Twitter or Facebook. Is it the same thing? Absolutely not.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? They can make donations for those charities.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? ” I’m like, that sounds awful.