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

SaaStr

Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Product. Team SIze: 4 -5. Positions Needed: PMs and Designers. Head of Sales. Team Size: 10 – 13 .

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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. When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick. I took on Oracle’s first software as a service product 13 years ago and took that to market very early for Oracle Corporation. We were driving it.”

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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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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. Think: financial services, healthcare, and other highly-regulated industries. Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB? For some organizations, that’s a critical need. You’ll compete with yourself.

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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. Previously, Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud at Salesforce and CEO at unstructured big data provider MarkLogic. Episode No. Episode No. 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.