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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second is adoption of DevOps practices, and the third is a focus on a digital customer experience. We also invested around those field account executives, more technical sales, pre-sales and eventually, customer success and post sales. When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

When should companies offer services? Speaking of, we go beyond the typical discussion of product-market fit into the concept of product-market-sales fit, and what that means for product design, to services, to pricing and packaging, to product management, and more. So you don’t want to have too many services.

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What is a good Net Retention Rate in SaaS?

CustomerSuccessBox

Although it is a company providing telecommunication services it takes real charges and has managed to keep its margins high as a software company of about 52% at $2B in ARR. For the cloud-scale applications, Datadog monitors the servers, tools, databases, and services, with a data analytics platform that is SaaS-based. Best Practices.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

About the episode: Steve Newman is the Founder & CEO @ Scalyr, the startup that helps your DevOps team solve more problems in less time with log monitoring and analysis in seconds. As for Chetan, he focuses on enterprise software and has made investments in MuleSoft, MongoDB, Elastic, Heap, just to name a few. Episode No.

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

While most everyone I knew scratched their head at the enterprise-focused Workday acquiring a more SMB-focused Adaptive, Workday has done a good job simultaneously leaving Adaptive alone enough to not disturb its core business while working to get the technology more enterprise-ready for its customers. The ongoing rise of DevOps.