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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. Challenge #1: Starting with Product-Led Growth and Deciding If It’s Worth It If you start with PLG and want to move your customer base and prospects to Enterprise deals, you might ask yourself: Should I go for it?

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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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.

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Multi-tenancy Trends in SaaS Applications

Frontegg

Now, questions of how to handle proper development cycles, bug fixes, CI/CD, monitoring and scaling of multi-tenant SaaS environments are taking center stage. Learn first hand how easy it is to get your SaaS enterprise ready. Scale for All. SEE HOW EASY IT IS. contact-form-7]. The Pareto rule may apply here.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Cross-team sharing is key to scaling DevOps effectiveness Do you have sharing, caring team members? The competitive advantage comes from the fact that enterprises of all sizes want to see enterprise-ready software. This is true irrespective of whether these said enterprises are building the software or buying it.

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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. SaaS = Software that scales. But, your people have to scale too. I’ve also scaled global teams across every region, and enabled them to generate over $200 million of annual revenue growth.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

I think the annual planning process that we actually ended up running was pretty similar to every other one we had run, but it was a couple months after we had just really deeply understood what it was people were using Segment for today and what they wanted to be able to rely on it for at a bigger, more enterprise-ready scale.