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What to Know About the Software Buying Landscape in 2023: What’s Changed, What’s the Same, and What Your Buyers Want with G2 CMO Amanda Malko (Video)

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Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% The value of community expertise: Invest in advocacy and connecting customers with each other. .

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

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Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. It could come back.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

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I mean them an Azure, like they’ve just had tremendous success, but 10 years ago that wasn’t a given. And I think trying to get that first team to come join you and then scaling the team and who you need to be your first 20 teammates, who you need to be 20 to 100, who you need to go from 300 to 2000.