SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. Thinking back through Cloud and mobile, what can you learn from them? Amazon wasn’t built as a Cloud business or storage company. Returning to the hypothesis. Retention is absolutely key.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

To answer this question, focus on how much you really need to get to that stage where you have product market fit. 1M-$10M — Building, Innovation, and Customers Now, it’s time for the next stage of sustainable growth in SaaS, typically B and C at product-market fit and getting early customers. They’re fragile at first.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

AWS – Cloud computing. Many of the biggest and best companies in the world use AWS – and many of them were once startups using AWS, too. The cloud computing platform offers hundreds of resources to help you scale your business, from building API to going serverless to monitoring performance. Apply now.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies. “So we’ve seen companies who have basically re-centralized their data into cloud data warehouses, and that is the source of truth.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

There’s not that many people that have been the first salesperson in to managing a global footprint at a cloud leader. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. Kristen Habacht: Yeah. Jason Lemkin: Sam has some parallel different experience.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Cloud Solutions Executive. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Regional Vice President – Marketing Cloud, Enterprise Sales. Cloud Adoption Solutions. Head of Commercial Sales Marketing, NA. Senior Director, Product Marketing. Senior Manager, Market Development – Canada. Salesforce.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. We were split up into groups. He was put on a table with me, but with a group that he was unfamiliar with. That really stuck with me.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 29, 2020

Generally speaking, SaaS companies who are new to the market should NOT be overly concerned with the Rule of 40 but focus on “T2D3”, which we’ll cover in a separate post. If your SaaS business is in its early years, the goal is really to realize product-market fit, and to grow as quickly as possible.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower. If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower. Dig Deep Into Your Financials.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Cloud destinations (coming soon) — we are in process of adding the ability to export your MRR movements data from ChartMogul onto the cloud. We will support exports to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, and Google cloud storage. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. Most popular blog posts.

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Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This sentence has been repeated by many experienced business people, especially since the introduction of SaaS and other cloud based online services. If you have the time and knowledge to do everything I mentioned in this essay, this is probably where you should spend 80% of your time once you reached product/market fit.

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User Pilot

JUNE 27, 2024

Additionally, you should consider obtaining relevant certifications, such as Certified Product Manager (CPM) and Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPPM). These come in handy for moving to senior product management roles. They play a crucial role in aligning user expectations with product features and functionalities.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2021

While qualitative side includes optimizing the online performance as well driving more efficient marketing and sales operations to lower down customer acquisition cost. For any company to grow, it has to acquire more customers by reaching the right product/market fit. Increasing the size of customer base.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “[Our research] opened up new markets for this product without them having to go through the other kinds of experimentation they were originally planning” After doing a bunch of analysis and digging into it, they realized the videos were too slow in certain countries because of where their data centers or AWS environments were located.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. Fred Viet: The mental model we had, and we are doing expansion as well in other markets currently, is, Always trying to have some early signal.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing. I don’t have to ask Jeff to explain? Jeff : Yeah, I saw one. Jason : You saw one?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Alison brings a wealth of marketing, investor, and exec experience to the show. Google’s Marketing Message and stance on competitors. About Alison Wagonfeld and Google Cloud (01:52). About Alison Wagonfeld and Google Cloud.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This fall, take advantage of a huge host of new Pavilion courses, including frontline manager school, sales school, sales acceleration bootcamp for SDRs, chief customer officer school, chief marketing officer school, and even chief revenue officer school. She’s the head of marketing at an HR software company called Bamboo HR.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. This is where the cloud meets. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? You know the deal.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

” Is it something beyond just “we want bigger deal sizes to make our unit economics work” or do they feel they have a strong product market fit and can actually command those prices. Marketing…their demand gen motion changes, need different product marketing, etc. And why you think you can win?

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User Pilot

APRIL 4, 2025

All customer information is fully encrypted, managed, and stored by SOC-compliant vendors such as Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. For example, your product marketers can measure campaign success seamlessly across devices without needing manual trackers. Again, you can’t go wrong choosing Userpilot.

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