Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

Merchant Services 85

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Obviously, you played a really pivotal role in turning the Wall Street trading business into a software business especially during your time at Goldman Sachs and also now at Sixth Street. And so, that certainly seemed more interesting to me than jobs in the tourism business, and so I did that. Been looking forward to this.

Artificial Intelligence 93

Artificial Intelligence AI Banking AWS 93

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Travel is a challenging part of the industry today. They first said, “All the customers that are shrinking, if you send us your receipts, your eCommerce business shrinking, the product is free for six months,” not a COVID edition, but literally if your business is under stress, you don’t have to pay for six months.

Merchant Services 175

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 175

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. There is a problem if you and your business are still relying on paper trails and old-school bookkeeping to manage your expenses. For fast-growing businesses with 25-200 employees or more than 50 expense reports per month.

Software Review 52

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. Think of the business model behind being an independent board member.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Historically, the factor that most people use as a heuristic is the business model. Traditionally consumer businesses have longer S-curves, so there is less of a need for a new product to drive growth. But I’m going to show you why if you pay close attention to these other factors, the business model can be a red herring.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? The buyer might be after more than just your business. If you’ve been working on your business for a decade, you might be feeling burnt out or eager to start something new. It might be awful. You’re hot stuff. It might be awesome.

Startup 52

Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Christensen coined the term “ disruptive innovation ” in a 1995 paper for Harvard Business School, he wasn’t just speaking of breakthrough innovations that make good products better. Both disruptions radically redefined content platforms, business models, and customer habits. Potential disruption. 3D Printing. Online education.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? The buyer might be after more than just your business. If you’ve been working on your business for a decade, you might be feeling burnt out or eager to start something new. It might be awful. You’re hot stuff. It might be awesome.

Startup 52

Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You’ll need this section to calculate your company’s Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) , which, along with Customer Lifetime Value is one of the most important SaaS metrics in determining if you’re running a sustainable business. Engineering. Engineering. General & Admin (G&A or Overhead).

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Zero Trust security paradigm, adopted by the US government and security giants like Google, Microsoft, and AWS, has secure authentication at its core. Authentication is the gatekeeper that decides who gains access to an organization’s resources, including critical systems like databases, networks, business apps, and web applications.

Strategy 98

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Product led businesses are performing well, too. Your marketing should start to mimic a B2C business.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Product led businesses are performing well, too. Your marketing should start to mimic a B2C business.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Product led businesses are performing well, too. Your marketing should start to mimic a B2C business.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Orange Business Services. Manager, Business Development. Executive Vice President & Group CEO – Verizon Business. VP New business – Sales leader. TalkTalk Business. Director of Public Relations and Business Development. Head of Sales, Emerging Business. Glenda Brady. Billie Briones.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. Business was growing by a really good clip.

Engineering 132

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 132

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Facebook’s mission statement has been examined everywhere from college business case studies to the hallowed halls of the United States Congress. We’re doing something that is quite different from what Facebook does with a very different business model, a different product, but the missions are very much alike.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

336: Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. And so you have both the community and the business objectives. David Spinks: Yeah.

Technical Advisors 205

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

So although I never really became a great sailer, I really love the metaphor of sailing for life and for business and I think we can have some fun with it in today’s talk, and I hope you’ll indulge me. We know about Zoom and we know about Slack and we even know about AWS, but look at these other categories. Look at Shopify.

Scale 185

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

When you’re doing a follow-on offering in the public market, you care a little bit, you don’t want them to be someone who’s going to stick their nose into your business and screw it up. I think it very quickly changed over the summer to: If you’ve got a good business, your business will speak for itself.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And they’re taking the time now to create those workplace resilient playbooks as part of their business continuity plan. I just actually don’t know how you would run a business. Aaron Levie: Productivity, you’ve got to make your business be able to function better and faster, smoother.

Sales Recruiting 146

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

But although it’s inspiring to look at the paths other companies have successfully traveled, you also run the risk of ending up at the exact same destination. I met our CEO, Enrique, who you mentioned, and he told me about this credit card business he wanted to build. Align your business strategy around solving problems.

Strategy 36

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Did I really just spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on hotels, food, and travel for nothing? As a general rule, we humans are pretty awful at retaining information. Make progress extra visible using business intelligence dashboards displayed on monitors. Our downfall is in our memory. Conclusion.

Sales Hiring 63

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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. After spending a couple of years in a sales role, that knowledge will assist you throughout your life in business and elsewhere.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Nowadays, it’s almost impossible to find a company that does not use SaaS to further its business. The adoption of SaaS in businesses is on the rise. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Founded in: 1982. Founded in: 2013.

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10