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

SaaStr

Instead, due to a decade-long exodus from Wall Street, the strategic CFO has burst onto the tech scene. I think what we’re seeing in all of our portfolio companies and tech at large is that finance is increasingly seen as strategic, and they now have a seat at the table when it comes to making major decisions at the company.”

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. Choose standard technology.

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

SaaStr

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Just last month, we had over five million SaaS and software buyers, coming to G2, to find trusted SaaS solutions, and what those software buyers are looking at on G2, are trusted peer reviews. And what we’re seeing is that businesses are really scrutinizing their existing technology stack.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Kind of extreme sales models out there for SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

It’s also been a powerful moment for technology to be a force for good. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. You get this almost eating effect, I think of it as Pac-Man in motion, where truly, cloud is taking over the core of technology and all of software. It is staggering.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.