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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Are you growing and want to scale? Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Have a plan.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. And now for something completely different.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally. Your career is what you make of it. Joyce Johnson.

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CAC Payback Basics: What It Is, How to Calculate It and Why It Matters

OpenView Labs

This includes expenses like ad spend, creative development, and commissions along with more substantial overhead expenses such as salaries and rent. While CAC is accepted as a cost of doing business, it should not be a blank check for your sales & marketing team. Benchmarking: CAC Payback Goals. Drive Funnel Efficiencies.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable. This episode is brought to you by Loopio.