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Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose (Pod 554 + Video)

SaaStr

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr Podcast 453 (and Video): Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive With Jyoti Bansal

SaaStr

Bansal felt passionate about enhanced software delivery, the need that Harness meets for developers. Sales: You must understand how to grow your sales machine, and it isn’t easy. In fact, you need both to optimally grow your sales efforts. You still need to hustle at first, then scale to a more organized process.

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

Short of dogs and cats living together , Dev-Plus-Ops playing nicely seems to be the right direction, if only based on how often we hear about its from prospective customers with SaaS ambitions. Software delivery is measured by results, not just feature velocity. comparing you to others in your space.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. The shift has been revolutionary both in software delivery as well as sales. It’s not an understatement to say everything has changed.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

From Freemium to Product Qualified Leads and Product Led Growth. The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Intercom’s Des Traynor offers a framework for viewing pricing and customer targeting to segment sales processes more efficiently. 20 Pricing Page Best Practices That Will Increase Your Sales. SaaS Pricing Basics.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history. That scale of mega-learning (and failure, both public and hidden) has translated into the Well-Architected Framework , a system of best practices around the key attributes of cloud and SaaS architecture.