SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2021

Some examples: Okta basically won the corporate side of identity (rocketed to #1) but wasn’t #1 on the developer side. IBM couldn’t catch up in the Cloud so it bought RedHat, the largest open-source player, RedHat, for $34B. IBM couldn’t catch up in the Cloud so it bought RedHat, the largest open-source player, RedHat, for $34B.

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Scytale

JUNE 12, 2024

The Role of Technology in Reshaping Security Compliance With the rapid development and integration of emerging technologies, the security landscape can utilize significant opportunities for innovation and efficiency. However, it all boils down to the poor use of data. Let’s take a look.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. While this talk really shows his love of thinking about the bigger picture – this is the Strategy stage after all – Peter actually spends 90% of his time on execution. We provide a variety of cloud solutions for them.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Missed the session?

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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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 and other technology deals have been more likely to overperform and less likely to underperform than most investments in other sectors. Embrace the cloud operating model. Four ways to drive value. Metrics will also change.

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Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

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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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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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 82

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights. Refund Policy.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales. implementing fintech services, developing marketplaces, and leveraging usage-based pricing).

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2023

As we keep iterating, ‘customer satisfaction is at the heart of any successful enterprise’, and with a robust customer success strategy, businesses will be able to achieve long-term growth and profitability. However, as businesses keep on the growth streak, scaling customer success efforts can prove to be daunting.

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User Pilot

MAY 26, 2024

Our review presents a variety of analytics platforms, from privacy-focused to feature-rich, ensuring you’ll find the right tool that respects user data, integrates easily, and scales with your SaaS business. The platform’s no-code capabilities make it accessible for teams without extensive technical expertise.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Software Review SaaS 52

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With proper integration, they can minimize billing errors, enable adaptive pricing strategies, and provide real-time insights to enhance overall efficiency. We’ll go over these benefits in more detail in the following part, from boosting customer retention to seamlessly adapting pricing strategy. Adaptive pricing strategies.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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. Software is also a lovely thing to scale. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy!

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. It looks like it’s scaling very, very well, and without any breakthroughs, it’s going to get massively better. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. Atypical in our world, but Neha scaled the business to well over $1M in ARR before raising funding. You should be.

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Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 204

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Zero-base sales capacity. Know when to walk away.

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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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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. 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 We can scale accounts, when we get them, very well.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 210

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How to develop your frontline managers [15:54]. About Dan O’Connell & Dialpad [2:00].

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AI Search AI Sales Hiring Scale 74

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 148

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP). Once you feel there is a market for your product, you can scale it up according to the requirements and feedback you gathered through your initial customers. Poor management . Problems of cash flow . More churn than growth .

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior. Identify Javascript errors, user frustration, usability issues, or poor-performing content. to determine the effectiveness of your product strategy. to determine the effectiveness of your product strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. At what scale does that become impossible? Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Why is this? Is that not?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 141

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. Work on developing your brand. The best part?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Customers' net promoter scores are an important part of a marketing strategy because they help you understand your customers' perceived value of your product and your customer service. This can inform your marketing messaging, the communication of your value proposition, customer support, and product development.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Technical Review 173

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit. This, in turn, signals potential churn, difficulties getting new sales reps productive, below-average win rates, weak pricing power and never-ending product roadmap discussions. Is ramp time increasing or decreasing as you scale? Make profitability a 2020 priority.

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