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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

Sydney pulled someone from Salesloft with a product marketing background who understands operations, running programs, and being strategic. AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. When partnering with big folks like Drata does with AWS, you have to bring business to them. Pick your strategies, invest in them, and start tiering.

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

As a founder, you can use this 84 cents to pay salaries, office rent, dividends, or invest in R&D. Operational efficiency and COGS. The pressure that growth puts on operations increases COGS, thereby compressing margins. For example, 84% GM means that for every dollar of product sold, a business keeps 84 cents.

Scale 52
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Weekly Walk with Matson’s CIO, Peter Weis

OpenView Labs

Peter: And so, the business vision that the board and the CEO bought into was we want to go global and expand our services without changing our customer experience, operational efficiency or our profit margins. Our data centers are shut down, but as I was telling you earlier, AWS barely existed when we started our transformation.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

This points to another serious issue i.e. data portability as all the time and money a business invests in a SaaS provider might go to waste. There are many strong reasons why businesses, especially small and medium businesses should take advantage of cloud computing to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.

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

Sales Hacker

We actually brought in a CEO for our series B, Eric Holston, and Eric was operational efficient. So you always want to make sure that anyone that was coming into the business just knew what we were about, what we’re going to do, how we’re going to take over the world, but the operational efficiency.