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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. That was in 2010, and we committed the company to go big with this cloud-based SaaS business model that would allow us to reach individuals anywhere in the world. Can you enable that?” Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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The subscription sales guide: how to sell subscriptions (B2B/B2C)

ProfitWell

The most important distinction you can make between different customers is whether your company is selling to individual customers (B2C) or to businesses (B2B). B2B/Enterprise subscription sales. When you’re selling B2B or enterprise subscriptions, showcasing value throughout the sales process is a must. Market data.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors.

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