SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

He had a friend help him hire an email marketer to send ticket emails to the events. 2: What Keeps Someone Motivated In The Startup World Jason has been successful, has had exits, has invested in great companies, and has built SaaStr into what it is, so what motivates him and other founders to keep going? “It It all still works.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2024

It could be a 6-month, 12-month, or multi-year venture, so you want the cash to invest in an upmarket strategy properly. What events do they go to? Once you do, invest and go hard after this market and grow the sales team to serve that upmarket customer. #3: Make sure you can make that investment from a product perspective.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Our events team is hard at work to make sure we can accommodate more attendees, without it feeling over-crowded. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cisco Investments. With more than 2,500 teams already signed up to join us 12-13 June, SaaStr Europa is officially SOLD OUT. ??. Backstage Capital. Bessemer Venture Partners. Cloudflare.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Then, that’s all we’re going to do today, but we’ll have two more virtual events at least. Thanks for putting on the event. What we did was we looked at, again we had a couple weeks of data and we knew which verticals were being disproportionately impacted by this event. Sam Blond: Well, I’ll jump in.

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The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

As I wrote in my post about the rising table stakes in SaaS , today an abundance of knowledge about any imaginable SaaS topic is readily available online and events like the fantastic SaaStr conference last week allow founders to learn from people who’ve done it before. That’s my theory at least, it’s not scientifically proven.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Previously, Amit led marketing efforts at startups like Tact AI (1st AI Assistant for Sales backed by AWS, Microsoft, and Salesforce), HP Inc (next-gen computing) and Spire AI (Human Capital SaaS). Using events as a way to engage with customers and drive conversations. 23:09) Strategies for hacking events to drive conversations. (27:49)

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AWS AI Advertising Finance 112

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. Think beyond the cloud about what other resources you need to invest in making customers successful with your platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

To achieve our mission of making internet business personal and scaling to support larger and larger customers, we have been continually, thoughtfully, and carefully investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability. Without rock solid availability, nothing else matters.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth?

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

With Userpilot, you can set up event tagging and analytics to get quantitative data while running in-app surveys to learn why people do what they do. Userpilots data is fully encrypted and stored with SOC-compliant vendors like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. which can damage your brand reputation. Konstantin L., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Thanks to Jason Lemkin and the SaaStr Team for putting on this event in a very tough time. And we’re also pleased, now to have almost a hundred thousand different SaaS products listed there, and being backed by a hundred million dollars from LinkedIn and some great investors that do allow us to keep investing in this marketplace.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 260

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. This is where to find the opportunities where you can search for architectural patterns and events.

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DevOps as a Service Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS 130

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. That’s the way that they create events on our system.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Mapistry is a small company and when we decided to make the move up market, we really had to invest a lot of time and a lot of resources into the effort, and if we didn’t do it in a smart way, we would be out a lot of money. I think maybe once we saw the deck that they were using and it was pretty awful. Lauren A.: Lauren A.:

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 113

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so when Amazon called me and they’re like, “Hey you want to come with us and do you want to actually start the mobile services, backend business within AWS?” David: Maybe you can talk about that transition, coming from a business like AWS to financial services, which I think was new for you.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. VCs Want To Invest, But There’s Stress In The System As a community, we over-talk about venture capital, but it’s important if you’re fundraising and to understand the pulse of the system. Every VC wants to invest.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. One of the early co-investments with my prior firm in Bessemer was in Shopify. If you look at companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, which we invested in a long time ago, it took them some time to get to 100 million of ARR. It is staggering.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Pricing starts from $0.0000500/event. Amplitude: Product intelligence and event tracking software , offering customer engagement and retention insights. Our scalable plans allow you to begin with a package that suits your current needs and easily upgrade as your business expands, ensuring you only invest in the required features.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 8, 2021

This means it’s vitally crucial for businesses to understand what they’re investing in and how they can make the most of cloud computing. For businesses running e-commerce sites, this means they don’t have to worry about the highly technical aspects of running a web application and they don’t have to invest in expensive infrastructure.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. At this point Buildium raised $2M from K1 Capital , investing the money primarily in marketing and hiring.

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

One-stop database solution for MySQL, Redis, and SQL Server on Amazon Web Services(AWS). Virtual events, team collaboration and online community made easy. Add to wishlist Added to wishlist Removed from wishlist 0. Visit Website. Chatwee Reviews: Details, Pricing, & Features. Live chat and instant messaging app.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

” Now, years later, millions of dollars later, we wrote a book, have a blog that gets two million visits, had an event that had 14,000 people last year. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.”

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 297

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

I believe pricing is not enough … There’s not enough investment from companies going into pricing and thinking about pricing. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. Now back to the three levers now. I’d like to talk about the last one, the ARPU.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce) to integrate, co-market, and grow together. Think: cloud platforms and operating systems like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Salesforce ecosystem, or a payment platform. TL;DR An ISV partner collaborates with large platforms (e.g.,

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

Tackle can give you access to the AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms and your end customer can purchase your solution through those marketplaces, which can streamline the entire process and help you skip a bunch of steps. Sam Jacobs: Hey everybody, it’s Sam Jacobs. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

MongoDB’s DevRel strategy involved building channels to share customer and user stories, including a lot of events. “We I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. We did a lot of owned events, especially for a company our size.

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Marketing AWS Scale Development 54

User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

The initial investment to build your own solution may seem expensive, but it will lead to long-term cost savings because you can improve your ROI on marketing campaigns and product development. You can track in-app events like sign-ups and feature usage, as well as monitor metrics like user engagement and conversion rates.

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Data Social Media Interviewing User Experience 105

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). SaaS companies can invest in robust support infrastructure (e.g., Scalability and integration capabilities ISV solutions may require additional infrastructure investments to support scalability. They require manual upgrades to handle increased demand.

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

How To Buy Saas

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

One-stop database solution for MySQL, Redis, and SQL Server on Amazon Web Services(AWS). Another possible scenario is that retailers expand their one-day event into a larger ‘Cyber week sale.’ What are you investing in this year? In 2021, the shopping event lands on November 29. Visit Website. Visit Website.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. And what do you think they did at all their events in between? And then all the stuff that you know is going to help you drive revenue, keep the company healthy, give you that long-term future that you can invest in. They just promised more s**t.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. And what do you think they did at all their events in between? And then all the stuff that you know is going to help you drive revenue, keep the company healthy, give you that long-term future that you can invest in. They just promised more s**t.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. You got a lot of overhead, and there’s all these regulations, and you got to do these earnings calls, and invest in investor marketing.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

They invest in a frictionless customer onboarding experience and high quality support so that new users get hooked on the platform. The name of the game is to invest in activities that are leading indicators of customer health. Contract renewal is almost a non-event for a usage-based business. More on usage-based pricing.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. To power this shift, we need infrastructure, which supports the easy establishment and distribution of the new internet-enabled products and services.

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