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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 started via SMB and are now serving the Amazons of the world. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable.

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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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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. Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB? This is often where licensing questions start to come up as well. Enterprise sales are quirky beasts.

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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? Remember this is an experiment.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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