IT World

JUNE 9, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the most widely adopted cloud platform on the market used by companies such as Netflix, Apple, Slack and Adobe. And that makes AWS certifications among the most valuable certifications you can earn in IT. Three of the 10 highest-paying certifications in the U.S.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Who to Meet at SaaStr Europa 2019: We’re just a few days away from the biggest and best SaaStr Europa yet! Amazon Web Services (AWS). <— The post Who to Meet at SaaStr Europa 2019! We’re making our triumphant return to Paris this year with 2X the content, networking, and fun. Backstage Capital. Cloudflare.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2022

Sprout Social IPO’d in Dec 2019 at an $800m market cap. A few case studies: * Sprout Social IPO’d in December 2019 at an $800m market-cap. It IPO’d early, in a crowded space. But they kept on going, and gong, and growing. years later, in a market down 50% …. They’re worth $2.7 Billion #golong pic.twitter.com/nA8jSXgehx. It’s tripled.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. Draw a straight line and assume multiples gradually expand at the same rate as they were growing from 2017-2019. That revenue multiples should rise from where they were in 2019. Customers are buying more than ever.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in your own data center. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. ]

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The old sales playbooks of 2009 and even 2019 may not work as well in 2021. These days, it can really feel like the Old Bag of Sales Tricks is starting to just not work anymore: With maybe 500x the SaaS vendors of 10 years ago, there’s so much noise. Emails get blocked, spam filtered. No one even has voice mail anymore.

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IT World

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. That on-premises market is huge according to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy who told the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference audience 97% of the $3.7T

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019. This podcast is an excerpt from Ashley’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. And so I wanted to celebrate the incredible year we’ve had with the most downloaded shows of 2019. Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings. Manny Medina. Ashley Smith.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. Here are my 2019 predictions and my analysis of them. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

We’ve published over 250 articles in 2019 and we’re proud to have contributors who provide our community with key insights and takeaways in the SaaS industry. 2019 was the year of the End User and the rise of Product Led Growth. 2019 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks. Our 2019 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report is live!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2019

Tableau Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results. There aren’t that many things of true scale, that are strategic, that Salesforce could buy at this stage. Tableau was at >$900m in recurring revenue … growing 41% (!). And subscriptions were growing 115%. That’s not Twilio growth, but it’s awfully strong.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

But they are often just awful managers. note: updated in 2019 from original post). You probably haven’t done it before. Turns out, first-time CEOs are often the most successful. Because they don’t know it’s impossible. Or at least, far worse than they are the second time. But that you 100% believe in.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

We all know this from AWS and Twilio on down, but Fastly is a visceral reminder. This sounds like a sane ratio for a tech company with an HQ in SF in 2019-2020. It’s also a great one to learn from, at $200m+ ARR ($45.5m GAAP revenue in Q1 ’19) because it’s in a space filled with strong competitors.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2019

Expanding into new markets is never cheap, and while Xero is very efficient overall, it’s cost to acquire a customer went up from $376 in 2018 to $397 in 2019. Gross margins have grown to best-of-breed at 83%, after a migration to AWS and more automation in customer support. They also raised effective prices, however.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so when Amazon called me and they’re like, “Hey you want to come with us and do you want to actually start the mobile services, backend business within AWS?” And that’s what led me ultimately to join Goldman in 2019. So, this whole idea of a computer on tap was so fascinating for me.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Cloud has grown 700% since the first Annual, if we use AWS as a proxy. We’ve also branched out, and had 1,600+ at our first SaaStr Europa in Paris, then 2,500+ this year at Europa 2019. SaaStr (@saastr) September 19, 2019. ever SaaStrAnnual , March 10-12 in San Jose / SF Bay Area. So much has changed.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The content that resonates best with buyers discusses issues and tells great stories, says Cameron Tanner at AWS. The post 11 Data-Driven Sales Enablement Tips from Brand Leaders at Dreamforce 2019 appeared first on Sales Hacker. This gives you the insight to continuously improve your content creation efforts.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. For a thorough assessment of options for a SaaS business model, download the AWS SaaS Journey Framework whitepaper , and/or take a technical deep dive into the SaaS Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp. Determine Customer-centric Priorities The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework fron AWS enumerates the elements of a well-architected development framework.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese cloud market is dominated by local players, with IDC figures showing Aliyun (also known as Alibaba Cloud) holding 42 percent of the public cloud marketplace in 2018, followed by Tencent Cloud at 12 percent, China Telecom with 9 percent, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) close behind with 6 percent.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

In 2018-2019, it grew then a bit, and for very top SaaS companies, 20x ARR wasn’t uncommon for Series A and later rounds. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. As SaaS picked up, 10x ARR remained a rough standard but for Series A, B and later rounds grew to about 15x for top performing SaaS companies.

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User Pilot

MAY 10, 2023

Amazon grants its AWS customers access to its recommendation engine to help them personalize their user experience. Using this tool, Amazon AWS users can now offer up to 50% better recommendations to their website visitors, email marketing lists, and more, thus improving the customer experience and their conversion/click-through rates.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Our 2024 retreat will be our first full company retreat since 2019, and we plan on budgeting $5,500 per person (roughly $440,000 total). Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs.

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IT World

MARCH 12, 2019

You may be surprised to learn that AWS isn’t the only cloud solution out there. You can explore its potential with the Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 , discounted by over 90% to just $29. In fact, Microsoft has their own cloud platform that’s surging in popularity.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Learn how server disaggregation can boost data center efficiency and how Windows Server 2019 embraces hyperconverged data centers. | Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]. To read this article in full, please click here

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As the close of 2019 approaches, with extreme stock market volatility and mixed economic signals, SaaS Finance execs building plans for 2020 and 2-5 years beyond don’t have an easy time. Meanwhile, this week, the IMF cut its global growth forecast for 2019 to 3%, potentially the weakest in a decade.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The main drivers of the cost reductions are: Hosting expense, the primary component of COR, has become more competitive, with extensive use of AWS and other hosting and network services. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2021

Chargify takes a closer look at the success of Digital Ocean, AWS, Mailgun, MessageBird, and Wordstream. At the end of 2019, two pricing experts made some predictions for what 2020 would have in store. 5 SaaS Companies That Have Mastered Usage-Based Billing. Miscellaneous. Flexible Consumption Business Models.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2019

In December of 2018, I made ten predictions of how sales will continue to change in 2019. The book will be released on March 12, 2019. Prior to Outreach, Manny was the third employee on Amazon’s AWS team, and led the Microsoft mobile division from launch to $50M in annual revenue. Reserve your copy now. How to Reserve Your Copy.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2019 Known customers: Cycode, Superwise.ai, Hunters, Slope, Kovrr, ActiveFence Price starts at: $499/month. #4 Best For: Product Adoption. 4 Pendo.io. Best For: Product Experience Optimization.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. Learn how here.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

In this session, Sandy Carter, AWS Vice President will hone your superpower – not of customer focus, or customer driven, but customer obsessed. This podcast is an excerpt of Sandy’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. The post SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019 appeared first on SaaStr. Missed the session?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. Harry Stebbings: What are you expecting from AWS this year? Harry Stebbings: As always, I so appreciate your support and I can’t wait to bring you our most downloaded episode of 2019 next Monday. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. It’s just a superpower in 2019. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the last 12 months we’ve doubled down on making our chatbot technology as effective as possible and our customers have also recently voted us number one on G2 for chatbots as well, with a satisfaction rating of 98, ahead of the likes of IBM Watson Assistant, Drift, Ada, Amazon’s AWS products, and more. .

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