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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

The one thing founders don’t do early enough is scope, engage, and nurture all stakeholders involved, not just the economic buyer or technical champion but the broader organization. When you get to the phase of wanting to sell to Enterprise, it often breaks down at Enterprise needs. Security — SOC 2 compliance is table stakes.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Fundamental metrics (like ARR, CAC Payback, or Burn Rate) will never stop being important; they’re industry standards for a reason. Are employees engaged, and do they believe in the mission?

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Rubrik: Benchmarking the S-1 Data

Clouded Judgement

For select customers in highly regulated industries subject to stringent data control policies, we offer RSC-Private as an enterprise-ready, self-managed version. We also sell to smaller customers through a high-velocity engagement model driven by our inside sales team.

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The 8 Pillars of Self Service in SaaS Applications

Frontegg

This is typically done by implementing “ Freemium ” versions that elevate onboarding and adoption metrics. More and more self service SaaS applications are also adopting interactive chatbots to encourage users to engage with their knowledge base. The same thing applies to the logging in process. at a minimum.