Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Before diving into more specifics about what Tabular does, I’d like to start with a brief overview of how cloud-native data architectures have evolved over the last decade. As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.”

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

times as much money, according to this Annex Cloud report. That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Building a solid customer success strategy is easy, too, as long as you focus on how different types of customers move through their journey, from discovery to purchase. Let’s dive in. What is customer success?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It was the start of the wave of the cloud.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This includes subscription management, revenue recognition, dunning management, integrations with other business systems, fraud prevention, and more. With proper integration, they can minimize billing errors, enable adaptive pricing strategies, and provide real-time insights to enhance overall efficiency. Adaptive pricing strategies.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. Software companies that increase their share of revenue from subscription models have stronger growth in share price. Embrace the cloud operating model. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Metrics will also change.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? 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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? Jeff : Absolutely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Alex co-founded the well-known SaaS company Desk.com before selling it to Salesforce and becoming the VP of Service Cloud (their second largest business unit, behind Sales Cloud). It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it. How to create a V2MOM framework for your company or team.

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Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

You see, gaining customers' trust is crucial to a SaaS business's success because it directly affects revenue. The best SaaS firms consider cybersecurity an integral part of their business strategy. Most bug bounty hunters usually follow a "free-for-all" strategy.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: The second major thing, I think, is that back in 2012, we were in what I think of as X in the cloud, as the moment of SaaS where you just take an existing software category and you put it in the cloud. So I think we’re in a generation now, which is more, what is only uniquely possible in the cloud.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. SaaS Sales Strategy.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 Jason Lemkin: Actually more than that, 10X revenues, only growing 22%. Grew 33% year over year at almost 800 million in revenue.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy! More importantly, DALL-E’s cloud picture above is clearly wrong.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

And I’ve watched them fairly quickly scale, to soon they’ll be at 10 million in revenue. I think it is possible to get some revenue-based financing here, for sure, both from SVB and others, and also new emerging vendors from Pipe and on, you can get some. First of all, let’s flip the two points you asked.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2018

While most conferences are starting to become more about networking and stealthy product pitches by sponsors, Sales Hacker’s Revenue Summit 2018 was unforgettable. Let’s dive into the Revenue Summit 2018 recap broken down into 5 key takeaways. Top sales teams chase conversion metrics. Volume metrics a.k.a.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The business does not charge via a subscription, but rather fees are transactional or pre-revenue e.g. Square, Styleseat, Mindbody. A negative experience will be associated with the marketplace no matter what, like a bad rental on Airbnb or a bad ride on Uber. Casey certainly felt this at Grubhub. Trust and Quality.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. And we really had no revenue to speak of by the time that I had joined.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

If you missed episode 210, check it out here: Increasing Revenue on Cloud Marketplaces with Tim Hudson of Tackle. Today on the show we’ve got Celine North, she’s the VP of revenue at Boardable, and we have a great conversation about her sales background and career. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. ” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. And then we’ll get into a little bit of the strategy discussions we talked about a minute ago.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Hang Black.

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Full Session

JANUARY 5, 2023

Your brand should develop a customer-centric marketing strategy to provide an optimal user experience to your website visitors. According to HubSpot , 42% of people will leave a website because of poor functionality. It can be challenging for web developers unfamiliar with the website’s interface or functionality.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales. Today, going to market is often multifaceted and requires developing technical and commercial partnerships, selling through cloud marketplaces, and leveraging your product for growth. GTM continues to be less and less straightforward.

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User Pilot

MAY 26, 2024

This helps identify friction points affecting user activation, feature adoption, and revenue growth. By tracking specific groups of users based on shared characteristics or behaviors, you can understand how different cohorts interact with your product and improve retention strategies. Shared Spaces for team analysis.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Know when to walk away.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. INTRO by Christian Lanng : We do cloud based splicing for the Fortune 5000. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. Exactly the same strategy. Work smarter, not harder.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pat O’Brien , the Chief Revenue Officer of Zylotech. Pat heads up heading up sales, marketing, and business development. He spent many years building and scaling large and small teams and companies. One team to own the data. What, Exactly, Is Revenue Operations? [18:55].

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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