SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” Year after year of lower sales and marketing costs and better customer retention really adds up. To compare the year 1 (meaning 12 months) investment in sales & marketing, we take 12 “cost” months divided by 20.8 “revenue” months, which yields a revenue growth:cost ratio of 0.57%.

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SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 251

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. On a much smaller scale, we’ve also started to see some leaders deploying their genAI budget against headcount savings, particularly in customer service. Simply having an API to a model provider isn’t enough to build and deploy generative AI solutions at scale.

Generative AI 145

Generative AI AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence 145

SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2023

Businesses can utilize conversation intelligence platforms to enhance their sales and customer service strategies. Aid Of Sales Strategy A big part of the job as a sales representative is communicating the value of the products and services being sold through sales calls.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence Azure Sales Hiring Machine Learning 10

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 188

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale B2B 52

Navint

AUGUST 26, 2019

Having worked for both Apttus and Salesforce, Sean Joyce , the Salesforce practice lead for Navint, is in a unique position to share his perspectives on Apttus returning to its Salesforce roots. Apttus built their applications on the Microsoft Azure platform with the goal of opening new markets, specifically with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Azure 40

Azure Outsourced Development Scale Finance 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. I need like sales, procurement, collaboration. Some of them are like a wait and see approach, right?

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 144