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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?”

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15 Mistakes GTM Teams Make When Moving Upmarket (and how to avoid them)

Sales Hacker

Alon Waks , former VP Market @ Kustomer @ Bizzabo now fractional CMO They will likely need investments in a surrounding sales ecosystem – technical sales, services scoping, POC/pilot expectations are massively different at that deal size. Its own requirements for operating in that market successfully.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.