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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights.

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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. To attract A talent, one needs to build an A brand. Learnings on GTM.

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5 Tips To Closing More Bigger Deals

SaaStr

But don’t push the customer and prospect to a breaking point before you’ve “earned” the right, from a brand perspective, to ask for all the seats up front. More on that here: The $2 Million Dollar Man/Woman: How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team. Now some bonus tips: Build an enterprise-only sales team.

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How to Control Your Internal Brand with David “Hersh” Hershenson

Sales Hacker

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. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., Get tickets here.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. So what do I know right?