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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. MORE
Join Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. Hear perspectives from both the investor and founder as the company scaled. MORE
Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? With the scaling of departments and teams, what has Erica seen work really well when it comes to making cross-functional teams communicate really well? Maybe regardless of scale? Welcome to Episode 214! MORE
A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). The prevailing approach to running a firm at the time (what we call the professional management system ) was perfectly tuned to steer most large companies toward the low-cost, scale-driven option. Scale insurgents are business builders. MORE
Erica has led New Relic through massive growth, scaling the company’s enterprise business 10x since she joined the business pre-IPO. Erica will share the five critical steps (and some lessons learned along the way) for scaling in the enterprise. We operate at great scale. MORE
But then, by trial-and-error, learning, and better training … eventually, the CEO gets the company to two trained, scaled sales reps that are pretty darn good. And then you go to scale. The post Why Your Cost of Sales Generally Doubles As You Scale appeared first on SaaStr. MORE
SaaS = Software that scales. But, your people have to scale too. I’ve also scaled global teams across every region, and enabled them to generate over $200 million of annual revenue growth. MORE
When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Of course, not at scale. So just taking this solution making it scale at 300 machines is not a matter of hours. But we knew it was not something that could scale. MORE
From tiny startup to multi-national scale-up, growing a SaaS company is a rollercoaster ride of ever-changing problems. Crossing the chasm is one of the biggest challenges you'll ever face, a huge hurdle that's claimed thousands of promising startups. MORE
Our first SaaStr | Scale went off yesterday with top revenue leaders from Brex, Flexport, Talkdesk, Intacct, LinkedIn, PatientPop, and so many others. We’ve already got the CEOs and CXOs of Box, Shopify, Zoom, Pagerduty, Coupa and so many leaders are coming to speak, share, scale and learn. MORE
It’s more likely that many networks will emerge as winners in their own … The post Blockchain Architectures for Scaling Applications appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. 0/ One view in crypto is that a single blockchain (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) will someday emerge victorious and proceed to dominate all use cases. I disagree. MORE
It’s a ways out, but save the date for our first-ever SaaStr | Scale on Sept 12. We’re doing SaaStr Scale instead of our traditional Spring/Summer Soiree + Holiday Parties, and combining our energy, times and efforts here. The playbook in how to scale faster. MORE
Subscriber Acquisition Retention Subscription Commerce scaling growthImagine trying to run a marathon if the only training you’d done was jog around the block every day. Sure, you might have developed a great rhythm for your daily exercise, but that’s not enough to prepare you to run 26.2 miles in one go. MORE
Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. The second one is customer feedback at scale. MORE
The post What are some things you can do early on to make scaling SaaS easier? It’s never remotely easy until you have a steady stream of leads and a decent 1.0 revenue team. But here are some things that can help in the early days: Always hire at least 2 reps to start. If you just hire 1, you won’t really know what is working, and not working, and why. Don’t expect a sales magician. You ideally need to close the first 10–20 customers yourself, and then hire sales folks to help. MORE
Jason Lemkin : So I guess maybe the learning, which I still think about it, is that trust scale. Even at Atlassian’s scale, resources are finite. And we think a lot about like how does that particular capability scale? The post How To Scale an Open Culture. MORE
If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Scaling support as you grow. MORE
Jason Lemkin : So I guess maybe the learning, which I still think about it, is that trust scale. Even at Atlassian’s scale, resources are finite. And we think a lot about like how does that particular capability scale? The post How To Scale an Open Culture. MORE
The unique model that the Boston-based VC firm has is to provide strong support to companies post their investment to help them refine business models, pricing, marketing so they can ultimately scale. MORE
? ?. 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. MORE
Second, as the company scales, the middle quartiles by definition will be twice as large as the top quartile. Imagine a hypothetical startup with 10 account executives that is growing quickly. MORE
She will share her top 5 lessons learned in building and scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR including expanding to serve upmarket customers, moving from product to platform, and how to hire well to drive breakthrough customer experiences and business growth. MORE
SaaStr Scale, our one day, San Francisco based event. The Playbook To… Hear from different revenue leaders on the playbooks to revenue growth, scaling, building better teams and more. The Playbook to Scale High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese. MORE
SaaStr Scale is THIS THURSDAY in San Francisco! The Playbook to Running Growth Experiments at Scale with Ex Machina Founder Guillaume Cabane. The Playbook to Scale High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese. GRAB A FINAL, FINAL TICKET HERE ! MORE
SaaStr Scale. How to Make Customer Success Work at Scale. How to Scale a Demand Gen Team. Just the playbook to scale. SaaStr Scale. Join 1,000 SaaStr Alums at SaaStr Scale on August 29. The Playbook To Scaling Faster! MORE
6 Key Signs a VP Can’t Scale Beyond $5m-$10m ARR. Android, Signs Your VP Can’t Scale, Change at SAP appeared first on SaaStr. We now have over 228,500 (!) subscribers to the SaaStr Cloud Daily on Quora , 9,100,000+ views, and are adding thousands of new followers per week. MORE
How do you scale an open culture? The post SaaStr Podcast #219: Atlassian President Jay Simons on How to Scale an Open Culture appeared first on SaaStr. Company Culture Podcasts Scale Atlassian founder's favorites Jay Simon saastr saastr annual MORE
But, ultimately, failing to get scaled pricing right is a death knell for SaaS products. So how do you design a scaled pricing strategy that covers a wide range of customers while still maximizing your revenue? What is scaled pricing? For you, scaled pricing means more revenue. MORE
Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. MORE
In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We should talk about that more and then we can scale that more? MORE
Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. If you want to scale your company, you’ve got to think about what is the gold standard look like? MORE
Premature scaling is the leading cause of failure, but businesses with two founders are 19% less likely to scale prematurely, as well as raising 30% more money and enjoying 3 times more user growth. But scaling is a unique phenomenon which needs to be constantly managed. MORE
It’s about the people you bring into the organization, that culture and that’s what’s going to take you from kind of the zero to one to like a scaling company. How are you trying to scale it? You’ve scaled big companies? Join Atrium CEO and Justin.TV/Twitch MORE
Away from the crowds for two days and nights, founders exchange stories about their journeys, the triumphs, failures and the challenges of scaling a SaaS business. Smaller at scale, bringing 20 founders together, it will be an even more intimate experience for attendees. MORE
Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. MORE
One way to think about various kinds of crypto projects is through the lens of contract theory. An axiom of this area of legal scholarship states : “all but the simplest contracts are incomplete” That is, contractual arrangements cannot anticipate … cryptocurrencies & blockchains MORE
The post How to Personalize at Scale appeared first on Sales Hacker. MORE
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But then, by trial-and-error, learning, and better training … eventually, the CEO gets the company to two trained, scaled sales reps that are pretty darn good. And then you go to scale. The post Why Your Cost of Sales Generally Doubles As You Scale appeared first on SaaStr.
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In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We should talk about that more and then we can scale that more?
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Jason Lemkin : So I guess maybe the learning, which I still think about it, is that trust scale. Even at Atlassian’s scale, resources are finite. And we think a lot about like how does that particular capability scale? The post How To Scale an Open Culture.
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Jason Lemkin : So I guess maybe the learning, which I still think about it, is that trust scale. Even at Atlassian’s scale, resources are finite. And we think a lot about like how does that particular capability scale? The post How To Scale an Open Culture.
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The unique model that the Boston-based VC firm has is to provide strong support to companies post their investment to help them refine business models, pricing, marketing so they can ultimately scale.
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When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Of course, not at scale. So just taking this solution making it scale at 300 machines is not a matter of hours. But we knew it was not something that could scale.
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SaaStr Scale is THIS THURSDAY in San Francisco! The Playbook to Running Growth Experiments at Scale with Ex Machina Founder Guillaume Cabane. The Playbook to Scale High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese. GRAB A FINAL, FINAL TICKET HERE !
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SaaS = Software that scales. But, your people have to scale too. I’ve also scaled global teams across every region, and enabled them to generate over $200 million of annual revenue growth.
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