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What If There Are No Natural Acquirers (For Your Company)?

SaaStr

And as the number of SaaS companies continues to grow and explode, and as SaaS changes and penetrates more and more market segments … it seems like there are more and more exciting SaaS companies without a natural acquirer. Mobile Solutions acquired by Brightfin. The fourth had an IPO, eventually.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

He had a company called Wily back in 2000 that he started, that ultimately sold on to Computer Associates, and really was seen as the father of the APM market segment, and learned a number of things in that experience that we then applied in terms of building New Relic, which is his second go around on the whole monitoring space.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

.” Nowadays, capital is so much more mobile. But again, capital is so much more mobile. Every time we raised prices, it was a battle between us; Adam and I as the co-founders and the sales leadership and the sales managers and the sales team. Every single time it was a non-issue.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Don’t miss out on two full days of thought leadership content, networking opportunities, fantastic French food, and fabulous evening events, all in the heart of Paris — snag your Europa 2019 tickets and catch up with us on the other side of the Atlantic next year! It came from pretty humble beginnings. Ross : There’s loads.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

We also did a lot of co-marketing. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. And we’ve started to see the impact of that last year in March, when for example, Google rolled out a lot more image thumbnails on mobile devices. It has started to show way more image packs. I spoke about that before.

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Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And for that, you need leadership and the right kind of leaders. It’s true for other market segments. And their Hotstar business unit in India, they had a moment where they broke the record for the most concurrent video streams to mobile phones when they had the rights to the International Cricket Championships.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

For example, if you’re buying a sales acceleration tool that specializes in outbound emailing, you may only want to hear reviews from others that sell to your market/segment, have the amount of reps that you do, or use a similar tech stack as your org. It has to be completely mobile friendly and mobile optimized too.

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