SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In February 2023, we’re heading to Singapore for our first APAC event and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! We’ll see 1,000+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs February 22-23 at SaaStr APAC 2023 ! At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events.

Cloud spend optimization 206

Cloud spend optimization AWS Scale compliance 206

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow. The post Join FastSpring at SaaS North 2023! The conference is jam packed with networking opportunities too! appeared first on FastSpring.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 135

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. appeared first on SaaStr.

Payments 223

Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 223

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

At a practical level though, the headlines in 2024 may actually look much worse than 2023 for startup failures. So many were able to cut the burn and stretch their cash through 2023. Folks that raised in the Go-Go Times of 2021 in many cases have been able to stretch their cash through 2023. But you can only cut so much.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Grab tickets here. .

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 191

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

jasonlk) December 19, 2023 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. From 60 Million Users in September 2021 to 170 Million in December 2023 It certainly helps that Canva in many ways is as B2C as it is B2B, as it fuels a huge TAM. That’s awfully impressive. Importantly, growth has accelerated this year.

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AWS B2C AI Scaling 254

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, In fact, Gartner sees overall global software spend growing faster in 2024 than 2023, a very health +13.8% — and crossing $1 Trillion in total spend for the first time! Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) With some big caveats. But it’s not that simple.

Merchant Services 266

Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 266

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. Customers Just Tried to Optimize Their Spend — Even Tiny Ones You might not think smaller Digital Ocean customers would be putting as much energy into optimizing their cloud spend as say a $1m a month AWS customer.

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Scale AWS Azure Cloud 227

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2023

The full agenda has just launched for SaaStr APAC 2023! It will be the #1 place to talk SaaS, learn SaaS, and share SaaS learnings in APAC in 2023! We’ll have dozens and dozens of workshops, braindates, and much more! The post The Full SaaStr APAC Agenda for Feb 22-23 in Singapore is Here! appeared first on SaaStr.

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AWS Cloud Trends Startup 243

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And AWS grew 37% at a $74B run-rate , down a bit from 39% the prior quarter but still adding an insane amount of new revenue. In 2023, it will be $750B. jasonlk) May 16, 2022.

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Cloud Azure AWS Engineering 248

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

jasonlk) November 13, 2023 Not every area of SaaS and Cloud is seeing big “macro” impacts. 64% of Large Customers Sourced From Partners They are AWS’s largest cybersecurity partner. – 26% Free Cash Flow – 125% NRR – $48B Market Cap — Up 94.58% this year (!) 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Cybersecurity AWS Benchmarks Cloud 257

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% The post What to Know About the Software Buying Landscape in 2023: What’s Changed, What’s the Same, and What Your Buyers Want with G2 CMO Amanda Malko (Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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Software Review Software Azure Cloud 196

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. As I’ve talked about before, the big risk for 2023 are fundamentals - are forward estimates too high? This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time. Gartner: SaaS Spend In the Enterprise Will Grow 17% to $195 Billion in 2023. 5 Interesting Learnings from Duolingo at $360,000,000 in ARR.

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Sales Recruiting AWS Compensation Enterprise 222

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. That is not new.”

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 152

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2023

Still, 2023 has started more slowly. #5. And again a challenge to everyone in SaaS to go global. #4. 2022 Growth Was Down from 2021, But Almost the Same as 2020. Growth was 35% in both 2022 and 2020. Another simple example of 2021 being the outlier year. Not Yet Non-GAAP Profitable. This likely explains the modest multiple and market cap.

Scale 195

Scale AWS Scaling Revenue 195

SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. SaaStr 629: CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Flexport’s Ben Braverman   3. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. A 6 Part Test to Help You Get It Right.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale AWS 187

SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2022

And inflation is awful. Gartner, spending on SaaS: 2020: $120B 2021: $152B 2022: $177B 2023: $208B. . — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 3, 2022. So are we in a downturn in SaaS? Certainly, segments are. eCommerce, video, and more are having post-crazy growth hangovers. At least, in many segments.

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Venture Capital AWS Cloud Scale 284

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2023

At AWS Reinvent, if your customers are there. The first time we sponsored, here are the 5 things we did to stand out: — Sam Blond (@samdblond) February 7, 2023 The post Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. At Dreamforce, if you are in the SFDC ecosystem. At Shoptalk, if you are in eCommerce. Events solve for this.

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AWS Enterprise Pricing Marketing 205

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A 2023 recession feels less likely, with 2024 being the more realistic timing if we do in fact get to a deeper recession. From the S&P to software, consensus was 2023 estimates were too high, and set to fall meaningfully. Let’s imagine a world where we don’t have a recession in 2023. The market was offsides.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Generative AI 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable. Let’s dive into it. Instead, it was growth at all costs.

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Outsourced Development 199

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

AWS growth seems to be re-accelerating, and qualitative feedback from a number of companies in Q2 (especially those with July quarter ends) suggested new customer bookings conversations were picking up. The graph below shows the difference between 2024 consensus growth rates and 2023 consensus growth rates (so 2024 growth minus 2023 growth).

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Software Review Cloud Software AWS 130

SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2023, highly personalized outbound to the right buyers always generates conversations, and mediocre outbound with trite cadences often gets you nowhere. Pick one or two and do them well. Tip #1: Outbound Done Well Works A lot of founders say outbound doesn’t work for them. But make sure you’re good at it!

Outsourcing Services 198

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Marketing 198

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ahead of big releases planned at the time ( destinations in 2022 and CRM in 2023) we needed a holistic view of our product usage, enriched with subscription and enrichment data from the various platforms we use. Nowadays, these are packaged and deployed in docker images, and executed via AWS lambda or EKS pods each day.

Engineering 52

Engineering K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Data AWS 52

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here are some notable examples: Cloud Computing Major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling businesses to access computing resources based on their actual usage. This approach has transformed the way companies manage their IT infrastructure.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are seeing some uptick, but this is largely from selling compute (ie cloud GPUs). In summary, I don’t expect real AI tailwinds to show up in non-hyperscaler businesses in a meaningful way through the rest of 2023. However, it’s not showing up in the data yet.

Cloud 130

Cloud Trends Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. When I left last year in 2023 that number was north of $2 billion.

Payment Solutions 54

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 54

SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Top 15 VC Podcasts 2023 [Listed Alphabetically] 100x Entrepreneur 100x Entrepreneur – By Siddhartha Ahluwalia Siddhartha Ahluwalia is a 2x founder, VC & Startup Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). The post Top 15 VC Podcasts 2023 appeared first on SmartKarrot l Comprehensive Customer Success.

Venture Capital 10

Venture Capital Scale Entrepreneurship EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 10

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Echoing this statement, Sarah Pritchard, Executive Director of Markets at The Financial Crime Summit 2023, says Sometimes people mistakenly think that because banks can reimburse victims, no one really loses out. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time."

Payments 52

Payments Data Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. The platform automates the provisioning of your application to the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), integrating cloud ops, DevOps, and security/compliance with 24×7 monitoring and support.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS compliance 198

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Amazon also offers you the option to access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). Supports Multiple User Types: Amazon SES supports two types of users: Sandbox Users and IAM Users.

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Technical Review Software Review Payment Methods Systems Review 52

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Pendulum Swings to Small Data : Modern Mac laptops have the same computational power as the AWS servers Snowflake used to launch the company. Cost Pressures Continue : The dominant theme of 2023 is doing more with less.

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Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 188

Audacix

AUGUST 11, 2023

Table Of Contents India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, (DPDPB) is going to force IT decision makers like you to completely rethink how your organisation collects, processes, stores and secures customer, vendor, employee and partner data. Examples include: Veronis, Azure Purview, AWS Macie.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Technical Review Cybersecurity Data 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Can You Get Away Without Single Sign-On When Closing Bigger Customers In 2023? If you go back 10-15 years, when people ask about build vs. buy for the long-term, people would consider building their own data center if they were spending $100k/month on AWS. No, you can’t. You can’t just use Google login.

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Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 224

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. We reached out to SaaS founders, operators, … Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. Sid Jain , Head of Insights at Gain.pro “After a brief lull in 2023, the broader SaaS market will see a lot more IPOs and M&A in 2024.

AI Search 52

AI Search SaaS Generative AI ChatGPT 52

Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If your SaaS is hosted on AWs, here are 47 AWS security controls you can put in place for free. © Copyright Ayush Trivedi 2023. All Rights Reserved. Static Application Security Testing (SAST): SAST tools analyze your code for coding practices that could lead to vulnerabilities.

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Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Software Review 52