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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. If you budget any less, you probably will fail. This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process enough in the early days. It’s just too competitive today.

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You *know* your exec team desperately needs an offsite. We’ve got the easiest (and best, and cheapest) solution

SaaStr

5 Customer Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow Your Business. How to Build a Network Effect Business and What this Means for Your Product Strategy. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. With sessions like… How Top CMOs Drive Growth in the Age of the Self-Serve Buyer.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. So why put it on our shortlist?

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

And what we found was there can be some friction from channel folks or other teams that maybe don’t understand what a cloud marketplace is and how it will disrupt or change the overall business. We thought we were going to get all these fabulous organic offers that just would come in self-service and be net new business for us.

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Best Cloud Web Hosting

Neil Patel

You need to spend your time focusing on your business rather than worrying about your website. Cloud web hosting could be the right choice for you. If you’re looking for a cost-effective hosting solution to grow with your business, cloud hosting could be the way to go. Scalability. Reliability and Security.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). Enterprises will move pieces of their business over.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Enterprises still aren’t comfortable sharing their proprietary data with closed-source model providers out of regulatory or data security concerns—and unsurprisingly, companies whose IP is central to their business model are especially conservative.