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Gartner: Software Spend Will Grow 13.8% in 2024, to Over $1 Trillion For The First Time

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If you’re selling sales and marketing software, like Zoominfo, it can seem a lot tougher than 12-18 months ago. Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) But it’s not that simple.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Digital Ocean at $700,000,000 in ARR

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Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. ARPU was up +28% from 2022 over 2021, and another 6% the past 12 months on top of that. Digital Ocean has added a sales team and now a partner team, but it’s still early for both. Or at least.

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We Just Launched Our ENTIRE SaaStr Annual 2021 Agenda. Get a Front Row Seat to The Best in SaaS!

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We just launched the entire SaaStr Annual 2021 Agenda !! From AWS to Vimeo: this year’s speaker lineup is packed with incredible speakers and content. Mastermind Masterclass: The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, Founder @ Stage 2 Capital. Hey SaaStr Fans, It’s here!

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5 Interesting Learnings from Semrush at $290,000,000 in ARR

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So there was a quiet SaaS IPO you may have missed in the craziness of 2021 — SEMRush, a tool your marketing department quite likely uses to keep track of the performance of your SEO and marketing site. 2022 Growth Was Down from 2021, But Almost the Same as 2020. Another simple example of 2021 being the outlier year.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Posts of 2020

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3. “Atlassian and AWS Say: Maybe Worry a Little Bit. A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan. But we went on to host 5 incredible digital events that reached 100,000+ … and we’ll be back IRL in 2021. What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One. More on that soon! Even If It Isn’t Revenue.”

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Outbound Always Works. If You Do It Right. And You Put In The Time.

SaaStr

Email will continue to be an effective way for entrepreneurs to connect with their audience and meet them where they are in 2021 and beyond. 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.

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Some SaaS Stocks Are Actually Still Doing Pretty Darn Well. E.g, Sprout Social, ZoomInfo, Zscaler, etc.

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Its PLG-assisted sales motion has kept it capital efficient, and today it’s worth $2.7 Now all these stocks were even higher at the 2021 peaks. But let’s step back a bit … the damage hasn’t been even, and capital-efficient SaaS stocks in many cases have held up pretty well. It’s tripled. It’s doubled. Efficient and epic growth.

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