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Scaling The Top SMB SaaS Companies: What It Takes with GGV Capital Managing Director Jeff Richards and GGV Capital Partner Tiffany Luck (Pod 647 + Video)

SaaStr

Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. 2020 wasn’t the only reason small business owners adopted software solutions, but it sure sped up the process. Efficient Go To Market There are a lot of ways to GTM as an SMB.

Scale 188
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5 Interesting Learnings from BigCommerce at $180,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services. A reminder that adding a bit of fintech to your SaaS can be a huge accelerant. A reminder that adding a bit of fintech to your SaaS can be a huge accelerant. Services and partners are also a big part of their growth story.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter.

Scale 185
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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. 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. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales.

Scale 191
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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Tara Bryant: It’s funny you ask me that.

Scale 172
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale?

Scale 121
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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. But the downturn in SaaS, at best, is uneven.