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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Like I said, we run 100% of our platform on AWS, so the fit was great.

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Drop the poker face: Why salespeople need to embrace authenticity

Intercom, Inc.

One of the benefits of the subscription model is that it holds vendors accountable for the services they provide. Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. There’s more competition and more choices for software buyers.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. 30% of all mobile apps with a paid subscription use RevenueCat to manage it. You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. Who here has done procurement or invoicing, and had to use your internal tools to do it? I was at Facebook for a while after Parse got acquired, and they had a three day training on how to use their invoicing system. Product led growth.

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3 Customer Retention Strategies for the Pandemic’s Next Wave

ChurnZero

While you might be tempted to renew their subscription or sell them a new product, the best course of action is to empathize with their current situation and listen to what they truly need. You and I both know how awful it feels to have someone disregard what we say and focus on their end goal instead.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). It takes sustained resources, focus and executive leadership in order to master it. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. But techy people love technology and end up way over-serving themselves, resulting in a mountain of subscription charges, fractionally used tools, and others that simply drive little to no business value.