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Why we invested in Athenian

Point Nine Land

They usually track low-level metrics about their app performance or errors, and agile teams have burn-down charts. Software developers are good at math and used to handling large amounts of data, so it’s strange that engineering teams tend to be less data-driven than other departments, isn’t it? Big brother is watching you.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What I’m going to do is talk a little bit about what we’ve seen over the course of the last year and then also talk about some metrics we track or we encourage our founders to track as they’re building their businesses, and then, lastly, try to go through a few predictions for the next couple of years.

Cloud 100
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How I Built a High-Performing Data Driven Sales Team [And How You Can Too]

Sales Hacker

As founding CEO of Datameer, I doubled revenue six years in a row, attracted $100M in venture capital and built a market-leading company. While a data driven sales coaching approach is still challenging to many sales leaders, the importance of chasing the right sales metrics is growing by the day! A data-driven sales approach.

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SaaS “Industry-Centric” Business Models

OPEXEngine

The targeted functions to be replicated in the software – examples include customer relationship database management and bookkeeping – were well defined. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Formidable Competitive Advantage.