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How Atlassian Helps Startups Clone Their Product Led Growth Strategy

OpenView Labs

I don’t promise that this story of the software company, Midori answers “how to be like Slack,” but it does explain that maybe the Slacks and Atlassians of the world are making it easier for others to follow their path by building powerful ecosystems. to Atlassian and focus on building great products.

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

SaaStr

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Panic About a Recession

Sales Hacker

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 And Jay was sort of our solution to that process.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt. Good to be here.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

SaaStr

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? What needs to change? What has changed? What is it?

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. Notey Labs.