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

SaaStr

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors.

Scale 189
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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. The second issue is around who controls the quality of the service.

Scale 73
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10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir

SaaStr

First, you hire your sales team. Finally, growth occurs when sales, product, and marketing can come together. She draws from personal experience scaling a global product company to $1B and shares common mistakes. You could even try a mock role-play over a call to test their sales skills. “If SaaS is a fast-paced industry.

Scale 210
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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Short on time?

Scale 188
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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale 158
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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.

Scale 177
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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Brand equity.