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

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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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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Identify and take action on bottlenecks and areas of improvement within customer success teams. Collaborate as part of the global customer success leadership team to align and solve bottlenecks in a scalable way. Leverage Customer Health analytics to identify customer expansion opportunities & churn risks.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

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Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. I think in general it’s only fair to the team, especially to those top performers, for the leadership of that organization to address performance issues as soon as possible. I don’t think leadership is about pure delegation nor about micromanagement.