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

SaaStr

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. You also need dedicated resources across your organization — marketing, customer success, product, legal, and finance. The lesson learned? That works great!

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Market : how to compete with incumbents? Enterprise readiness will be an essential : ensuring buyers are safe from legal & compliance risks.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business. How Atlassian does business .

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The Impact of Generative AI on Software With Theory Ventures Founder & General Partner Tomasz Tunguz (Pod 650 + Video)

SaaStr

Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. It’s simply a matter of watching your burn: “The main difference in the market between 2021 and today is that efficiency matters more than growth.” Agents remember your actions and emulate them.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

You likely made time-to-market trade-offs to speed up your roadmap. Now may be the time to turn your eyes to the enterprise readiness horizon. Here are seven things enterprise SaaS customers look for. #1 3 Audit Logging and Compliance Enterprise customers view the ROI of your solution as more than a great set of features.

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Different Types of Logs in a SaaS Application

Frontegg

Compliance – a. Learn first hand how easy it is to get your SaaS enterprise ready. I further agree that Frontegg may contact me with marketing communications. Compliance – a. Privacy and Sensitivity — High. From the SOC2 aspect, (and similar) you cannot store PII in these logs. SEE HOW EASY IT IS.