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5 Interesting Learnings from Xero. As It Crosses $650m in ARR.

SaaStr

What lessons can we learn from this huge Kiwi SMB success, for other founders? ” So even in SMB sales in smaller markets, if you take dominant market share — you can get to $500m+ in ARR! ” So even in SMB sales in smaller markets, if you take dominant market share — you can get to $500m+ in ARR!

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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)

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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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Manager – UKNE Location: London, GB, UK Organization: Dataiku As a Customer Success Manager, you will actively serve a portfolio of accounts from various industries, ranging from SMB to large enterprises, mostly based in the UK & NE.

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

SaaStr

We have a customer engagement organization that encompasses all of our customer facing teams. So as a part of this organization we have sales, we have DBRs, we have customer success, we have customer experimentation, and we have customer support. You have a huge obligation to your customer, right?