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Startup 411: Building for Scale with Google Cloud, Stairwell, Mashvisor, and Inworld.ai (Video)

SaaStr

To convert an idea into a successful venture, startups need to be equipped to scale. Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals.

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The Top 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg, Balderton Capital Executive-In-Residence (Pod 574 + Video)

SaaStr

generate momentum, they will inevitably need to scale up. For whatever reason, the company is ready to exit startup status and prepare to scale-up. Dave Kellogg, Executive-In-Residence at Balderton Capital, breaks down the most common mistakes companies make when going from startup to scale-up.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

PST, to unveil the data behind effective scaling. A Look Back At 2022 Performance ICONIQ Growth leverages quarterly operating and financial data from 92 enterprise SaaS companies. Using these real numbers from real companies, they have a solid insight into the long-term health of businesses. 80% of companies are slowing hiring.

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Making the Business Case to the CFO: 5 Questions You Should Answer

BetterCloud

For making the business case to your CFO, there’s some fundamental questions you should be prepared to answer. For example, during the roaring 2021/2022 IT investment boom, IT has more latitude to invest without the strong involvement of finance leadership. Especially financial leadership. Now, those days are gone.

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The Top 10 Valuize Content Of 2023

Valuize Consulting

Overall, the industry witnessed transformative trends shaping the way businesses engage and retain their customers in an increasingly capital constrained and fast-paced environment. 2023: A Year Of Accelerated Evolution In 2023, rapid technological innovation and shifting market dynamics have profoundly impacted B2B technology companies.

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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business? The sales reps were friends, and accounts were shared.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New Chief Revenue Officer, Meric Turkoglu

BetterCloud

I studied mechanical engineering—I come from a line of engineers in my family—but I was envious of my friend who studied business. So after I got my MBA, I worked in the restaurant business for many years, but eventually I pivoted to sales. Everything needs to be about scale. The company went through a successful IPO in 2021.

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