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The 9 best tools for your early-stage startup tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??) AWS – Cloud computing. Many of the biggest and best companies in the world use AWS – and many of them were once startups using AWS, too. Apply now.

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The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge (Podcast #498 and Video)

SaaStr

Roberge recommends starting with product-market fit. Your customer retention is the best quantifiable measure of product-market fit; however, retention is a lagging indicator. Therefore, you need a way to identify product-market fit as early as possible. This is where you can get strategic and creative.

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Are You Ready To Be a Public Company?

Andreessen Horowitz

Customer testimonials backed up the numbers, showing that major enterprises viewed CrowdStrike as a security platform, not just a product. ” —Deputy CISO, AWS “In my career, the deployment of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform was perhaps the easiest global security rollout I’ve seen.”

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

B2B is in a similar bind — a conservative spending approach and a tougher financing environment will affect SaaS spending as well, meaning that we might see things get worse before they get better. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight.

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Rule of 40: How to benchmark your SaaS growth

OPEXEngine

Generally speaking, SaaS companies who are new to the market should NOT be overly concerned with the Rule of 40 but focus on “T2D3”, which we’ll cover in a separate post. If your SaaS business is in its early years, the goal is really to realize product-market fit, and to grow as quickly as possible. Sources: [link].

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. We found something that works. Jason Lemkin: Got it.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.