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5 Interesting Learnings from Box At $800,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Aaron Levie was kind enough to come to our first SaaStr Annual in 2015, just a week after their IPO. Box calculates 7x expansion from its existing installed base: A big push into security & compliance to grow its TAM. Box has been an important part of SaaStr almost since the beginning. Well, soon enough indeed, Box will be there.

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The Secrets to Aligning GTM Teams & Finance to Scale by 10X with Subskribe Founder Prakash Raina and Okta VP Finance Leslie Hui (Video)

SaaStr

From 2010 until 2015, the SaaS world was becoming more complex with the introduction of static bundles and recurring revenue as an addition to the annual/monthly subscription model. Governance and compliance are core to alignment. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. Era 2, SaaS 2.0: Era 3, SaaS 3.0:

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The Accounting Team Responsibilities: Financial recording and reporting Compliance, Audits Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Tax, Treasury Your accounting team makes sure every financial transaction is recorded correctly and categorized. Accountants are responsible for ensuring the company has clean financial statements and data.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide.

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SaaStr Podcast #400 with Splash CEO Ben Hindman and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin: “The Future of Digital Events”

SaaStr

Secureframe helps startups get and maintain SOC 2 compliance in as little as two weeks. They hosted their first conference in 2015, and now they claim the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. I’ve been doing SaaStr Annual since 2015. That’s outgrow.co forward slash s a a s.

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How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún

Buffer Resources

Here’s who weighed in: Adnan Issadeen , Security and Compliance Engineer Years at Buffer: 8 Retreats attended: Madrid (2017), Singapore (2018), San Diego (2019) Åsa Nyström , VP Customer Advocacy Years at Buffer: 11 Retreats attended: San Francisco/Lake Tahoe (2013), Thailand (2013), Cape Town (2014), Sydney (2015), New York (2015), (..)

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How ShortPoint Experienced 10x Growth and Expanded their Global Footprint with Full-Service Ecommerce

FastSpring

Since 2015, they have built over 20,000 beautiful and functional intranet sites with more than 50 global partners. Thanks in part to their partnership with FastSpring, ShortPoint experienced 5000% growth in revenue since 2015. ShortPoint is a leader in intranet design software. FastSpring is more than just another software platform.