SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In the past year, we’ve added 300,000+ followers to our Cloud Daily from SaaStr! We get to know what stories are the most popular in Cloud, at least. 105,000 views and 399 upvotes on where the Cloud is going for Google in India. The Cloud is reviving so many brands and products that had stalled out.

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Cloud Technical Review Startup Engineering 131

IT World

JUNE 9, 2022

Salesforce announced Wednesday that it has rolled out a closed pilot program for a new service called NFT Cloud, allowing users to mint and manage NFTs for brand engagement and marketing purposes, even as the wider crypto market continues to spiral.

Cloud 104

Cloud Blockchain Marketplace as a Service Technology 104

SaaS Metrics

JULY 5, 2023

White labeling in the SaaS industry refers to buying generic/unbranded software and reselling it under a different brand name. The concept really took off in the last decade, thanks to constant advancements in the field of cloud computing.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 22, 2023

Salesforce has made it possible for people to build their branded eCommerce sites with one subscription that encompasses all your marketing, eCommerce, and CRM needs, as well as several others. This is made possible with the introduction of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, a new product for B2C (Business to customer) websites.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So Braze is one of the quiet winners in today’s SaaS and Cloud world. 500k+ Customers Fuel Growth, Up 28% — And NRR is 121% There A story of many SaaS and Cloud leaders today. But they couldn’t break into top French brands until they opened a local office with an in-person sales and success team.

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CloudKettle

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Using Salesforce Marketing Cloud To Deliver Relevance Travel is back in the collective consciousness and executives in the tourism industry need to meet travellers where they are right now – their inbox. hours a day, and, if your brand delivers the right message at the right time, […]. This is where consumers spend up to 2.5

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Travel Branding Cloud Marketing 59

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

2) doing brand new things that you simply … The post Doing Old Things Better Vs. Doing Brand New Things appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Branding Technology Cloud Blockchain 145

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2023

We’ll have 12,000+ of the best in SaaS and Cloud all coming together to share, scale, and learn. We’ll have over 100 of the leaders in SaaS as sponsors, from Salesforce to Expensify, from Google Cloud to G2, and so much more! Want to get your brand out in front of 12,000+ of the best of the best in SaaS? Need leads?

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2023

So the markets are still down and multiples are still low, but growth rates in SaaS and Cloud are slowly creeping back. AI has driven a number of rapid unicorns, and at SaaStr Europa 2023, Iconiq Growth noted that while they did 0 brand new growth investments in 2022, they’d already done 5 in the first half of 2023.

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Cloud AI Acquisition Branding 199

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer. Just great for branding, awareness, and ICP.” ” Leading Cloud Provider: “The booth traffic was better than past years, and the activation was a hit. It’s pretty strong. It was a big hit.”

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Scale Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 205

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Join us for a candid conversation about leveraging feedback to understand your internal brand. What your internal brand is. Building your internal brand [20:19]. I’ve seen a lot of SaaS market growth from the days when Larry Ellison said the cloud was like fiction. Look at your brand. powered by Sounder.

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Branding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 79

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With 100+ public Cloud companies, it’s now a bit clearer that at least after a certain point in time, SaaS vendors have a lot of stability. So enterprises manage SaaS vendor risk by (i) limiting use cases for innovative, early-stage start-ups and (ii) betting on the #1 brand in a space where practical. And large companies know that.

Innovation 282

Innovation Churn Cloud Branding 282

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2023

Brands we are attitudinally loyalty to, we want to buy more stuff from. And in SaaS, brands we are attitudinal loyalty to, we buy more from. And in SaaS, brands we are attitudinal loyalty to, we buy more from. We buy more modules, e.g. for Salesforce, the Service Cloud, and now, the Marketing Cloud.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

With the BVP Cloud Index down 40%+ from a year ago , and many of the top Cloud leaders trading for as low as 5x ARR, it’s just hard to justify a later stage $300m-$400m valuation round these days, let alone a true unicorn round. Second, top funds (including Sequoia this week) have brand-new Seed funds.

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AWS Venture Capital Finance Cloud 287

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

We all know times are good in SaaS and Cloud — but just how good? Is it all the big public cloud vendors and a handful of outliers? It really is almost everyone at SaaS that is at scale and has a winning brand. Really impressive, accelerating, Datadog quarter. CAC payback – 76% GM – 18% FCF Margin $DDOG.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2021

When products and services fail, customers can’t buy online or use their software, they churn, and the company suffers brand damage. Many businesses are moving their infrastructure and software to the cloud to adopt Kubernetes and microservices. Those technologies offer terrific benefits in exchange for some complexity.

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Software Cloud Engineering Technology 351

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He then jooined Google to become the lead product marketing manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Raj writes about Outbound Marketing Fury, A style of marketing that raises awareness without spending significant brand dollars using controversial content. Last a short stint at Palo Alto Networks before becoming CMO at 1Password.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Marketing SMB Cloud 140

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Its definitely at least a Cloud infrastructure and applications company for SMBs: And its also a great case study of learning how to sell and market to SMBs at scale. We’ve seen this also with Salesforce, where its classic CRM product is no longer its largest cloud, and is also its slowest growing (and most mature) segment: 3.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The Cloud picked itself up, and accelerated 6+ years into the future. Next up, we brought together some of the top VCs in Cloud to share with us how investing has changed in 2020, from Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures to David Sacks of Craft Ventures and many more. Learn about where they see the Cloud going in 2021 and beyond. #4:

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Cloud Enterprise Engineering 278

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In fact, Salesfeorce’s mutiple Clouds today are really built on top of its biggest acqusitions. Even if they have trouble creating brand new products that thrive. It’s all over the place: Google bought Android and YouTube and turned them into top core products. If it’s truly critical to the CEO or a top SVP.

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Startup Acquisition Cloud Engineering 243

SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazing smaller, deep dive sessions with top leaders in SaaS and Cloud. The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

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Venture Capital Acquisition AI Innovation 200

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Harpi led investments in: Authomize, which helps IT and security teams detect and eliminate identity-based risks across cloud and IAM; Panther, a threat detection and response platform powered by a highly scalable security data lake and detection-as-code; and Gatik, which is developing self-driving solutions for urban logistics.

Innovation 224

Innovation Wireless Acquisition Technology 224

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Our newsletters now reach almost 200,000 Cloud professionals — 40% more than last year. Reach over 100,000 Cloud professionals on our podcast. We know what works to meet a variety of goals, from awareness to brand to leadgen. That’s a heck of a bargain. Our podcast is #1 in SaaS. Honestly, this is a gem.

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Cloud Innovation Pricing B2B 218

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2023

Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved.

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Scale Technical Review Software Review Machine Learning 197

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But, with up to 1 million ISVs crowding the $528 billion cloud services market by 2027 , vying for the most strategic route to meet your customers’ demand depends entirely on how well an ISV navigates the ins and outs of channel sales. Diminishing profit margins.

Scale 271

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Cloud 271

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 12, 2013

How much is the most valuable brand in the world, Coca-Cola worth? Often times, winners create advantages in a market through brands. These brands evoke emotions within consumers: feelings of trust (Visa), of aspiration (Nike), of adventure (RedBull). Look at every commodity industry to see the value of branding.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

Because company data now lives in a constellation of cloud applications, this data is not readily accessible for data scientists or analysts, nor is it easily presentable in critical business applications used for decision-making. They eventually gave way to, at the time, no-name brands like Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com.

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Technical Review Scale Management Sales Hiring 256

SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

Whether you’re in it for the long haul and need cash to scale, or you’re looking for a speedy exit — or even if your dream is to become part of something bigger, where you can watch your product live on as part of a legacy brand — the folks who can make it happen will be here. And they want to meet YOU.

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Venture Capital Banking Cloud Investment 181

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

SalesLoft’s Sales Engagement Cloud Ecosystem will highlight key brands supporting sales and support teams, while providing a sample of SalesLoft’s partnering power from their over 100 integrations that exist within their App Directory. SaaStr is the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders and entrepreneurs.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As a marketer or software seller, you can lean into this trend by finding community, championing advocates, and showing up where your customers want to engage with your brand. . Tackle.io’s 2021 state of cloud marketplaces report highlighted a similarly dramatic shift. The rise of third-party buying . Not anymore.

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Software Review Software Azure Cloud 181

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Power of the Cloud. Atlassian Cloud Platform is a platform that all Atlassian products rely on. Another noteworthy point about the Atlassian Cloud Platform is its extensibility. Businesses work with solution partners to help their brands accomplish specific goals. Marketplace partners. Strategic technology partners .

Scale 207

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Entrepreneurship 207

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

All in the Cloud! The LivePerson of today isn’t the early grab-and-go SaaS app I used back in the day, but I still have some positive emotional attachment to the brand from then. The first was Salesforce, to get our CRM going (today, we would likely have gone with HubSpot). Back in the day, it was a magical app.

Scale 226

Scale AI Scaling Enterprise 226

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2020

New brands? The pandemic is accelerating the rate of cloud computing and remote working. Consumer spending in the US accounts for 68% of GDP The question is then: how do consumers change their spending habits over the next quarter? Do they revert to the old patterns of purchasing? Shift to new categories? New geographies, lifestyles?

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Cloud Technology Trends Startup 321

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But London clearly will be even larger and more dynamic, as the hub of SaaS and Cloud in Europe. Also, sponsoring multiple events is a great way to scale pipeline, enhance your brand, and meet with your customers and fans all across the year. Barcelona in 2022 was really special and amazing, and the biggest and best Europa ever.

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Scale Cloud Scaling Pricing 225

SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2022

CROs at well-known Cloud leaders. Also, brands do matter. What we’re looking for most of all: Underrepresented CEOs, founders and CXOs from $5m-$5000m ARR. Great sessions on PLG, growth marketing and demand gen. Hands-on session on How to Do “X” Better.

Cloud 187

Cloud Growth Marketing Startup Branding 187

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. Their responsibility would include attracting local talent, running the US and creating an employer brand in the US. To attract A talent, one needs to build an A brand.

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Scale Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team 200

SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

We’re all attracted to brands. We want to be in the Cloud 100 and on TechCrunch every week. Brands do matter. There are good reasons to take money from the Top Brands in VC. Their brand will accrete to your brand. We want Google and Salesforce and Amazon as our customers.

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Venture Capital Branding Investment Startup 277