SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? For Steve, what does devops really mean? What works?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). While there were some worries that the transition to the service subscription model would reduce software’s traditional stickiness, those concerns may have been overwrought.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

Product Marketing 79

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

These companies resell the solution and bundle services around the solution to add value to the customer. They make their money on the margin from the software’s resell and their services to the end-customer. This approach works well when the licensee is required to host but prefers to outsource the DevOps. Customization.

Payment Solutions 74

Payment Solutions Payments Software Review Enterprise 74

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

Scale 197

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 197

OpenView Labs

JUNE 8, 2021

The complexities are analogous to making the leap from on-prem to SaaS; it requires changes in go-to-market strategy, financial planning, sales processes, compensation models, and much more. Competitive studies: Explored pricing models and recent pricing changes among other popular DevOps tools that customers used.

Pricing 52

Pricing Software Review Scale DevOps as a Service 52