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5 Interesting Learnings from Upwork at $400,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. 80% SMB, 20% Enterprise. While Upwork has made inrounds into the enterprise, it remains squarely an SMB product.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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The 4 Enterprise Sales Misconceptions for Startup Founders

OpenView Labs

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. As I dug deeper, it was clear a lot of the wrong assumptions had been made without an understanding of what enterprise sales is all about. Misconception #1: Enterprise sales is easy. Source: SalesHacker.com. Let me be clear.

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Start-Ups VS Enterprise: Which Sales Team Should You Work for? (Infographic)

Sales Hacker

Should you take the risk of applying to a fast-growing startup, or slowly work your way up at a more established enterprise company? I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations. Start-Ups VS Enterprise.

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Top 10 Best Enterprise CRM solutions for 2021

Sales Hacker

An enterprise-level company deals with more complexity in its internal processes, has to manage more people and roles, and needs more data to make informed decisions. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth. What is an enterprise CRM software? Enterprise CRM vs. SMB CRM.

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Upwork Versus Fiverr: Battle of the Freelance Marketplaces?

Software Platform Consulting

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Enterprise Stage – Ensuring Future Growth and Relevancy. Enterprise Stage – revenue growth at this stage should be stable.