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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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2019 saw SaaStr Annual’s biggest event yet – 12,000 global community members came together to take over the Bay Area and it became the event Where the Cloud Meets. We sold out Europa 2019 and were immediately planning for 15,000+ Founders and CEOs to attend Annual 2020. 2019 The Fifth SaaStr Annual: Where the Cloud Meets .

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The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales? A VP of Sales might seem the logical place to have your first SDR team report. It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. Sales leaders who have only done inbound and responded to leads aren’t those people. Likely within the hour that day.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

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Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. At the beginning of 2019, she became an ambassador of Moxie Future, an initiative for women investors that facilitates investment in a responsible and sustainable future. She is in charge of the full SaaS solution sales cycle.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

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Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

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What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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