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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. The LMS market segment is big, and Docebo thinks about it in two folds. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable. Let’s dive into it.

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

For certain customer profiles or market segments, it may be necessary to combine freemium with a sales team. In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. Find out here. Yes, Freemium Businesses Need Salespeople. Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid.

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15 Mistakes GTM Teams Make When Moving Upmarket (and how to avoid them)

Sales Hacker

Seth Hammac , Global Partnerships & Alliances @ AWS Ok so what CAN you do to set yourself up for success? Its own requirements for operating in that market successfully. Are you crystal clear about what market segments you are going after? And why you think you can win?

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. The cloud-managed services attract the lower end of the market and make it possible for these businesses to address the SMB/mid-market segments.

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The IT Handbook to Choosing the Right SaaS App

BetterCloud

Some tools are called “best in breed”—meaning that they are generally ranked at the top of their market segment. If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? of similar apps, and it can be hard to tell which is the right one for the job. How easy is it to get data in (or out)?

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.