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

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 101
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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Organization: Book4Time Inc. As a Director of Customer Success, you will assume direct responsibility for a handful of extremely strategic customers in providing a white-glove level of Customer Success. Ensure Smartly.io

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5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Unlike when selling into SMB businesses that kind of can go from a demo, to a conversion, to a close in a matter of days, enterprise sales is a lot more complicated and it’s hard to navigate through. So as Lauren sort of alluded to, we started by focusing on SMB’s. It’s not going to work.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And you can see here across the board, companies, SaaS companies are expected increased churn. It’s most severe in the SMB world.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. I mean, literally. We were wrong.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

The other thing that dropped our odds of success was the fact that we were focused on small business, on the SMB market, and everyone we talked to, literally everyone. Do not…,” and the reason is no one hardly ever has succeeded in building a big business in SMB. Jason : How do you find that pre churn?

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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

Usage-based pricing (UBP) , also known as consumption-based pricing, allows customers to pay for products according to how much they use. AWS and other infrastructure providers have been using UBP for nearly a decade. Fast growers retain and expand new customers, resulting in net negative churn.