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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Team expertise.

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$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta (Podcast #506 and Video)

SaaStr

As Ohta says, “Around 2014 in Q4, we were about to cross a $2.5 Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. In addition, the SaaS metrics dramatically improved, including increased growth rate, faster pipeline velocity, shorter sales cycle length, and higher gross margin. The Graveyard: $10 Million ARR.

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

SaaStr

What I’m going to do is talk a little bit about what we’ve seen over the course of the last year and then also talk about some metrics we track or we encourage our founders to track as they’re building their businesses, and then, lastly, try to go through a few predictions for the next couple of years.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

User-centric behavior data is a MUST: You are getting access to user-centric behavior metrics to scale up fast – your user journey can be optimized by the people who matter most – your clients. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Best For: Documentation, Development Metrics. Best For: Product Adoption.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. You guys are much more thoughtful around the metrics that you track and knowing that churn and retention is important. million in 2013 to $115.9 Of course, no success story is without its obstacles. HubSpot’s had a reasonably successful run.

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Now, what’s really interesting is the peak of the market was actually in March 2014, where companies were trading at ten times AOR multiple. Now, let’s assume that you did a fundraise in March 2014, guess what?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.