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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. Hiring a CFO. First: Why hire a CFO, anyway? . In Laika’s case, they decided to hire a CFO when they decided that looking only one quarter into the future was no longer sufficient.

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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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How To Get SOC 2 Certification For Software Companies

Audacix

We know for a fact that large enterprises in particular view security as a key component of a SaaS company proving itself as enterprise-ready : You, as a leader in SaaS company, need this certification because it’s so widely accepted and acknowledged as a prerequisite before they will purchase your software.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. It’s not an option.

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How SaaS teams can perform security testing for web applications & APIs

Audacix

If you are building a B2B SaaS then proving you have thorough and consistent for securing your web applications and APIs can ultimately end up making or breaking your sales efforts. Most businesses hire security professionals to conduct web application security test on their behalf.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

Sales wants more features. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product.