SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2019

Salesforce was an outlier (as you’d) expect from the #1 largest player in the industry. Look at their growth rate in the early years — even when Cloud was 100x smaller than it is today: Winning Strategies for Scaling Your Sales Team | SaaStr. Today, this type of growth, while crazy, is more common. See, e.g., Zoom, Twilio, Slack, Dropbox, etc. By growing so quickly, so early in the cycle of Cloud and SaaS, Salesforce was able to rocket to $1b in ARR before most SaaS apps really came into their o

Scale 178

Scale Cloud Scaling SaaS 178

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 16, 2019

If the current pace of tech change is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution — with its tremendous economic growth and lifestyle change — it means that even though it’s fundamentally empowering and enabling, there’s also lots of …

Technology 78

Technology Education 78

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2019

We passed a new milestone on Quora — crossing 50,000,000 total views. As you can see, views dropped a bit and then rebounded strongly in the past few months. With that, here are the top/most popular recent answers: Do CEOs have personal assistants? What was the biggest ousting of a CEO that ever occurred? What makes a bad CTO? Do startups ever have one founder with substantially more equity than the other founder(s)?

CTO Hire 141

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Divestopedia

JUNE 16, 2019

The more knowledgeable you are about investors and their mindsets, the more successful you will be during an M&A event. Being able to target the right investor for your business is much easier when you know what they're looking for in an investment.

Marketing 65

Marketing Investment Business 65

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

Innovation

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2019

It can be if you are very good at it (like many things). Why? Well, SaaS combines three things that make it attract for salespeople: Most SaaS products need salespeople. Some freemium products don’t use salespeople, but probably 90% of applications do. Most SaaS products are solution sales and prospects and customers want to talk to someone about the needs and problems.

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