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

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this.

Cloud 100
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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 130
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Global Marketing Strategies for SaaS and Software

FastSpring

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Learn how using a merchant of record can help you scale your business faster and remove many of the headaches of breaking into new markets and transacting across borders.

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Christmas in July! Create Smarter Ecomm Landing Pages for the Holidays

Unbounce

With that in mind, Unbounce has teamed up with a few heavy-hitters of marketing to give you the rundown on how you can start with your holiday campaigns and landing pages today. (So, A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. Is Amazon worth imitating, even on a smaller scale?

Scale 111
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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. They aren’t alone.

Scale 70
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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. They aren’t alone.

Scale 51