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Notes from Office Hours with Lisa Lawson

Tom Tunguz

Who do they consult? Marketplaces: AWS marketplace, Heroku marketplace, Salesforce marketplace. The head of BD must determine the right priorities for the company, socialize them, and develop a plan to achieve them. Types of Partnerships. Where do they buy? Where do they convene? But, there’s a tradeoff.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Shift Paradigm , a consultancy that executes like an agency, represents an end-to-end shift in the way organizations align around growth.

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

SaaStr

In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. They consulted with the Product team to identify product changes that could reduce storage intake. Gross Margins skyrocketed, and the Strategic Finance team was tasked with improving margins.

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GTM 128: The Death of Demos and Selling What Customers Actually Need with Fred Viet

Sales Hacker

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. And I know you’ve had some great experience, particularly while you were at AWS, running different partner sales, channel sales. They cannot resell.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Can we help you understand how to work better as a group with a consultative touch?” We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. In Brex, the AWS credits and it’s getting additional rebate by moving your card spends over. Jason Lemkin: Got it.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. I had done some software consulting. Little did I know, we would actually be here today with quite a large ecosystem.

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Managed 4G/5G service connects to Amazon, Microsoft clouds

IT World

The idea is pretty simple: Federated’s new connectivity-as-a-service offering can be purchased directly through both the AWS Marketplace and Azure for a monthly fee.