SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2023

The full agenda has just launched for SaaStr APAC 2023! It will be the #1 place to talk SaaS, learn SaaS, and share SaaS learnings in APAC in 2023! We’ll have dozens and dozens of workshops, braindates, and much more! The post The Full SaaStr APAC Agenda for Feb 22-23 in Singapore is Here! appeared first on SaaStr.

AWS 298

AWS Cloud Trends Startup 298

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They were $1.7B+ ARR in October , so let’s call it close to $2B at the end of the year, growing 40%+ at that scale –and profitable! (or jasonlk) December 19, 2023 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. 300 Employees Working on AI Not a surprise, but interesting to see the scale of investment here. #5.

AWS 312

AWS B2C Scaling AI 312

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. But at scale, even the slightly less long version of the tail is where the money is. Even small cloud customers worked to bring down their spend in 2023. #5. And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean.

Scale 297

Scale AWS Azure Cloud 297

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2024

Overall Cloud spending has bounced back off lows for sure: AWS at a $105B run rate growing 19% Quarterly YoY growth trends below. Yes, AI has fueled Nvidia and Google Cloud and Microsoft and AWS to massive growth, and growth that has accelerated the past few quarters. OneStream had an epic SaaS IPO at $500m ARR, growing 34%.

AWS 238

AWS Scale Social Media SaaS 238

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, In fact, Gartner sees overall global software spend growing faster in 2024 than 2023, a very health +13.8% — and crossing $1 Trillion in total spend for the first time! Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) With some big caveats. But it’s not that simple.

Merchant Services 312

Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 312

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

jasonlk) November 13, 2023 Not every area of SaaS and Cloud is seeing big “macro” impacts. Being Multi-Platform / Multi-Product Key at Scale A story we’ve seen many times. 64% of Large Customers Sourced From Partners They are AWS’s largest cybersecurity partner. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. ” #7.

Cybersecurity 299

Cybersecurity AWS Benchmarks Cloud 299

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow. appeared first on FastSpring.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 158

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2023

Still, always helpful to see how any leader does free to paid at scale. Still, 2023 has started more slowly. #5. This math is never as straightforward as it looks, depending on how valuable the Free edition is, and how aggressive the “choke” from Free to Paid is. 53% of Revenue is Outside U.S. Growth was 35% in both 2022 and 2020.

Scale 261

Scale AWS Scaling Revenue 261

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. Ideas Are Cheap.

Scale 243

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Cloud 243

SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. SaaStr 629: CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Flexport’s Ben Braverman   3. SaaStr 626: 10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift Co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres  5.

Sales Recruiting 244

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale AWS 244

SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2022

And inflation is awful. Gartner, spending on SaaS: 2020: $120B 2021: $152B 2022: $177B 2023: $208B. . — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 3, 2022. So are we in a downturn in SaaS? Certainly, segments are. eCommerce, video, and more are having post-crazy growth hangovers. At least, in many segments.

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital AWS Cloud Scale 328

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Can You Get Away Without Single Sign-On When Closing Bigger Customers In 2023? If the company wasn’t built around this purpose, it would be hard to scale. If you go back 10-15 years, when people ask about build vs. buy for the long-term, people would consider building their own data center if they were spending $100k/month on AWS.

Enterprise readiness 289

Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 289

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

That’s up from 60% in 2023. In B2B, you also have fixed costs, but you can diversify monetization based on tokens or seats, or in the case of AWS, however you like. Consumer SaaS has a lot of drawbacks, but it also has the benefits of scale. In B2B, the classic metric for this is 2% now and was 2% in 2006.

Subscription 306

Subscription Payment Features B2B Mobile 306

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. The bigger you scale, the harder this can be. Leadership injections as you scale are tricky. Let’s dive into it.

Sales Hiring 282

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Outsourced Development 282

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Pendulum Swings to Small Data : Modern Mac laptops have the same computational power as the AWS servers Snowflake used to launch the company. They are faster to get started (no account creation), they can scale very quickly, and they can rise to enterprise levels with commercial cloud offerings.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 228

SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2023, highly personalized outbound to the right buyers always generates conversations, and mediocre outbound with trite cadences often gets you nowhere. Pick one or two and do them well. Tip #1: Outbound Done Well Works A lot of founders say outbound doesn’t work for them. But make sure you’re good at it!

Outsourcing Services 262

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Marketing 262

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

Cost optimization & reporting 157

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

If B2C rebounded back in 2023, that means 2025 might be a little easier for a lot of folks in classic B2B. You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Or Scale AI securing $1B. What this graph shows is that there is no downturn in the mobile economy.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 147

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s clear that buyers are racing to the Cloud Marketplace, like those offered by AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM / Red Hat, and sellers are eager to tap into the Cloud budget to help their buyers get started fast or scale contracts fueled by cloud budget growth. Don’t be the seller who has to close-lost a deal because you aren’t there. .

Marketplace as a Service 77

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Amazon also offers you the option to access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). Supports Multiple User Types: Amazon SES supports two types of users: Sandbox Users and IAM Users.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Payment Methods 52

Audacix

AUGUST 11, 2023

Table Of Contents India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, (DPDPB) is going to force IT decision makers like you to completely rethink how your organisation collects, processes, stores and secures customer, vendor, employee and partner data. Examples include: Veronis, Azure Purview, AWS Macie.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Technical Review Cybersecurity Data 52

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs. Automation , coupled with the ability to scale, ensures: Accurate and timely billing for a growing client base. Efficient management of new services and clients.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. And if we’re doing the right thing, we need to scale it quickly.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ahead of big releases planned at the time ( destinations in 2022 and CRM in 2023) we needed a holistic view of our product usage, enriched with subscription and enrichment data from the various platforms we use. The aim was to ease data access across the company and allow data engineering functions to scale.

Engineering 52

Engineering K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Data AWS 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Scalability Startups and enterprises alike can scale their technology usage in alignment with their specific needs. Here are some notable examples: Cloud Computing Major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling businesses to access computing resources based on their actual usage.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way. The reality? That’s a good thing!

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Figure out the foundational things.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 18, 2023

To handle the increasing load, ChartMogul engineers decided to horizontally scale the platform database by adding more shards. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) was the next option; it’s the standard tool for live database migrations in AWS as it supports batch and incremental loading.

AWS Database Migration 52

AWS Database Migration AWS Data Software Review 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

Whether you’re trying to scale your business or scale your career – you’re in the right spot to learn from the best of the best. Best case is that you validate your fit and scale and worst case is you have great product feedback to go build before you try again.

Scale 90

Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise 90

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Echoing this statement, Sarah Pritchard, Executive Director of Markets at The Financial Crime Summit 2023, says Sometimes people mistakenly think that because banks can reimburse victims, no one really loses out. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time."

Payments 52

Payments Data Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Top 15 VC Podcasts 2023 [Listed Alphabetically] 100x Entrepreneur 100x Entrepreneur – By Siddhartha Ahluwalia Siddhartha Ahluwalia is a 2x founder, VC & Startup Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

Venture Capital 10

Venture Capital Scale Entrepreneurship EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 10

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I do want to dig in there, because you were such a transformational moment in Twitter’s trajectory, and so kind of diving in there and really starting on the people side, I’d love to hear what were your biggest lessons on how to hire successfully at such scale? Often early stage startups post raise need to scale and hire quickly.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 160

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

OpenAI plans to roll it out to the regular ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) users after scaling up their servers, given the high demand and the models large size. or Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023? ), theres a significantly higher chance it will get it right or admit it doesnt know, rather than inventing a figure or name.

ChatGPT 40

ChatGPT AI Search Software Review AI 40