CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability.

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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?

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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.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

stars on the most popular software review platforms (G2, Capterra, and GetApp – all of which use a 5-star rating scale). Overall SaaS Award – Customer Service Category Winners: AppFolio Investment Management. Overall SaaS Award – Development + DevOps Category Winners: InfluxData. Quantum Metric.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Remember, security testing for web apps can be done with different methods: Manually, by experienced penetration testing services providers who have the right credentials, years of experience and the right penetration testing framework. A Penetration testing-as-a-service platform that helps you get expert help when you need it.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The report is based on survey data collected from software sellers and buyers of companies at every level of ARR and across verticals like devops, security, training and education, analytics/business intelligence, IT and several others. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This empowers them to utilize these application security tools and services in the best way possible to secure apps from being exploited for sensitive data through cyber attacks. Comprehensive Threat Detection : Look for automated web app security services that offer advanced threat detection mechanisms. User-friendly interface.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How do good founders respond to questions on not achieving sales targets? #2: 3: Godfather of Sales John Barrow on How To React When a Lead Goes Dark. About the episode: John Barrows is essentially the Godfather of Sales. How did John make his way into the world of SaaS and more specifically sales optimization?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We’ve been fortunate to be Datadog’s partners as they’ve rapidly scaled, launched major new product lines, went public in 2019, hit a $55 billion market cap and continue to exceed expectations as a public company. And sales reps get a free Chrome extension that lets them use Clearbit instantly. .

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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?

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. When building a company 5 years ago, the sales motion and who’s going to be the user/buyer/champion for a potential deal was pretty clear to the founding team. Your product needs to support top-down (demo?POC?Sales)

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll meet some of our customers, including Wayne Stewart from Atlassian and Brian Lederman from Coda, as they explore the ways Intercom is helping them scale their businesses. We are operating at internet scale. And we do this at internet scale with modern next-gen tools that grow with you. Oh no, it’s a sales issue.

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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.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As the firm scales at $1B, the NRR dips and need not be declining. 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. How is it helping them scale? Sales pitch exists even for freemium tools.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 23, 2020

We’ve been fortunate to be Datadog’s partners as they’ve rapidly scaled, launched major new product lines, went public in 2019, hit a $25 billion market cap and continue to exceed expectations as a public company. And sales reps get a free Chrome extension that lets them use Clearbit instantly. . Today they’re worth more than Slack.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 8, 2021

It coincides with achieving faster revenue growth at scale, building a truly customer-centric culture, and enabling a land-and-expand business model. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

He theorized that large, established companies, often known as incumbents, can become too focused on building better products and services for their most profitable customers and end up overlooking smaller customers in the process. And then, we’ve got the operation of sales and marketing groups ready to lead that charge for us.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 15, 2020

For example, our sales cycle at JumpCloud is around 65 days, but one of my colleagues might observe a sales cycle closer to 90 days because she’s taking an average versus a median. JumpCloud is a Directory-as-a-Service® that securely manages and connects users to their systems, applications, files and networks.

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Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

System and Organisation Controls 2 (SOC 2) is an audit report that certifies to trustworthiness of services provided by a service organization, particularly software companies. Which is why correctly setting the scope is an important part of SOC 2 preparation services. Does a SaaS startup need to be SOC 2 compliant?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale? 326: Gusto’s Lexi Reese walks you through scaling high performance teams. This podcast is an excerpt from Lexi’s session at SaaStr Scale. One is large scale customer events and the other is community events. What tools do they use? *

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion. However, a good question to ask yourself when considering the reduced friction is: Could you get the same benefit with a scaled-back, freemium offering? Enterprise sales are quirky beasts.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Most of these services capture webpage availability, average web page load time, and web page functionality, among other performance indicators. We have picked out the seven best website monitoring services to get your site up and running and staying healthy. How To Choose The Best Website Monitoring Service For You.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

The unfortunate fact is that most penetration testing service providers do a really horrible job of helping you, the customer, understanding three critical decision-making questions: What type of penentration test do you need? How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)?

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. Creating end-to-end encryption of your services and pipelines to secure your code and data.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

People really took to the gamified nature of it, especially the sales department. We need engineering teams to code fixes, or Platform Services to modify infrastructure, or IT to enable security features. Adjacent teams in this case are Platform Services (DevOps), IT, Engineering, and Architecture. Weekly check-ins.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Data can provide invaluable insights into everything from demographics to customer behavior , even future sales forecasting and more. DataOps are the architectures and software developed to do all of this at scale, in an agile, responsive manner. Just as in DevOps , DataOps should occur in various environments or spaces.

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