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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. Business Development Identify and assess partnership opportunities to drive growth Business Intelligence Turn data into insights to inform decision-making.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. How AWS Does It.

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. It’s essential that messaging doesn’t get confused when communicating with these different use cases. Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. Let’s dive into it.

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Top SaaS applications from IT and automation leaders in 2024

BetterCloud

Year after year, our tech stack grows and contracts as we find value in new applications and sunset others that no longer serve us. Emerging from our survey in no particular order: Adobe Creative Cloud : A powerhouse suite offering design tools for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography.

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Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks (Pod 644 + Video)

SaaStr

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” Of course, we all know how that turned out. All of which were disruptors when they first came on the scene.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Ten Ways To Stand Out in a Crowd of $25-$50/h Software Outsourcers

Kraftblick

In the highly competitive market of custom software development, adding a special twist to your appeal may be just what you need to attract potential customers and persuade them to pick your company out of a crowded field. The customer’s pain point: Software developers are awfully expensive. It’s a long-standing problem.