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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. Thanks to Jason Lemkin and the SaaStr Team for putting on this event in a very tough time. com, where we’re building, deleting software marketplace, we’re also seeing software booming. The situation is getting worse.

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

Chargify

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. It’s about turning companies into communities.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? So then, we started sort of replacing agencies with a few folks, but it was like demand gen and then we were over-indexing on events, and so we had an events person. I mean, literally.

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

SaaStr

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! 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. 35% versus 25% in SaaS.