SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Eventually, you’ll figure out how to get better at closing “all the seats”, all the revenue, 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. More here: The 48 Types of VP Sales. At least more often.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. It’s not much worse than 2019, and it wasn’t that bad then. The Proverbial Napkin What does it take to raise capital in SaaS in 2023? that’s pretty good.

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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. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. In return, they will spend a certain number of hours per month with your team.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. And at a sales perspective, they’ll move to optimizing revenue per lead, over closing every possibly lead. With less capital and a tighter team … you won’t be able to spend as much on marketing.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

The three major cloud service models are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Cloud service models in 2020. We are not considering those in our comparison of cloud services. Platform as a service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment for development and deployment over the internet. What is SaaS? What is PaaS?

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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. Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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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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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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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

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

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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User Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the market for product design tools to support your workflows and help your team work better? In this article, we distilled it to just 15 tools, showing each product’s strengths and weaknesses. Prototyping tools : Product teams use these to create efficient low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Technical Review 87

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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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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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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Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

You see, gaining customers' trust is crucial to a SaaS business's success because it directly affects revenue. It enables real-time visibility into your AppSec posture and helps your developers find and fix vulnerabilities without always needing the help of external cyber security consultants.

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

In contrast to Zendesk (and I think, Yammer), which eventually moved upmarket and now generates an ever-increasing percentage of revenues from larger customers , Dropbox is still getting most of its revenues from individual users and small teams. Dark clouds on the horizon? And what an almighty King it is!

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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. This includes subscription management, revenue recognition, dunning management , integrations with other business systems, fraud prevention, and more.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 245

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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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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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

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

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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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Otherwise, poor performance could result in lost revenue. Cloud Hosting. Cloud hosting is relatively new. So if you’re price-sensitive and evaluating VPS plans, cloud hosting will likely be more cost-effective. Cloud plans are great for those of you who want to scale your server resources on-demand.

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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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 30, 2019

When he left PatientPop, he helped grow it to over 60 million in recurring revenue. Justin helped build the sales team in ZocDoc. He then went on to help build PatientPop to over 60 million in recurring revenue and now he’s consulting to SMB businesses. Today on the show, we’ve got Justin Welsh.

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it. How do you think about that?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Advertising costs Cost of your marketing team Cost of your sales team Creative costs Technical costs Publishing costs Production costs Inventory upkeep. While these instances are rare, they may cloud the relationship when calculating the CAC. The first company (Example 1) has a poor metric.

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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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