SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The budgets are >still< there, but they're harder to access, so sales needs to understand what your buyer's true goals are for next year and align with it. A similar story with arguably the #1 public leader in next-generation sales tools. So a great one to look at if you sell into sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At Glasswing Ventures, they tell their AI-native companies not to lead with AI because it’s such a superficial indication of interest. When you take the data, you may have a business goal of making more sales or delighting the customer. What should founders know about the modern AI stack that Enterprises can scale on?

AI Search 294

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re selling sales and marketing software, like Zoominfo, it can seem a lot tougher than 12-18 months ago. If you’re selling cloud infrastructure, for the most part, growth may be down a smidge but is still strong, e.g., MongoDB. Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.)

Merchant Services 313

Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 313

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Sometimes they’re classic cloud migrations. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cost optimization & reporting 167

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. You can see some quotes from Azure / AWS in my Q2 recap , and pasted below. After the cloud giants reported this week, the timing of the presumed re-acceleration is very much in question. On Tuesday, Azure and Google spooked the market.

Cost optimization & reporting 157

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years. Follow along to stay up to date! Today it’s ~5x.

Cloud 157

Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

Scale 64

Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 64

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. This is the data point shown for Q4 ‘23. As you can see, the median beat this quarter was 2.0%.

Cloud 184

Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). Follow along to stay up to date!

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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.

Sales Hiring 235

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 235

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

Q1 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. The real headwinds to software (tougher expansion, longer sales cycles / procurement, slower new business, budget crunches / RIFs, etc) started last August. But what we’re really looking for is budgets expanding, shortening sales cycles, less pressure on expansion, etc.

Cloud 167

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 167

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

But here are a few other factors you should look out for when evaluating a prospective software. These tools should help you understand your business in more detail, including important metrics, inventory, and sales numbers. Whether it’s real-time analytics data streaming or offering insights at scale, this tool can do it all.

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. At Snowflake, he was the first rep and single-handedly built the outbound-engine on the way to scaling the business from pre-revenue all the way past $150M+ in ARR.

Scale 83

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 83

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. On a much smaller scale, we’ve also started to see some leaders deploying their genAI budget against headcount savings, particularly in customer service. Simply having an API to a model provider isn’t enough to build and deploy generative AI solutions at scale.

Generative AI 145

Generative AI Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence 145

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2021

This larger percentage of investment in early-stage funding rounds signals an industry ripe with growth potential and sales opportunities. TL;DR: Early-stage cybersecurity venture funding = new sales opportunities for you. Orca Security provides security and compliance for Amazon Web Services , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

Cybersecurity 123

Cybersecurity Sales Hiring Scale Cloud 123

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As more workloads and data move to the cloud and generative AI takes over the enterprise , cybersecurity is more critical today than ever. And that’s because with every new paradigm shift—from the internet to cloud computing—the sheer magnitude of digital threats has exploded and threat vectors have become increasingly sophisticated.

Investment 118

Investment Cybersecurity Azure Cloud 118

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. Related: The Evolution of SaaS Architecture. What’s it right for?

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ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 97

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering.

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Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 104

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. Even though HubSpot grew 23% at $2.5B, there was weaker demand and longer sales cycles, and they had to do pilots with CEOs and CIOs. 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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CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 148

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

User Pilot

MARCH 12, 2024

With several cloud-based software solutions popping up each day, SaaS user management is no longer an afterthought. Similarly, poor encryption or authentication methods may lead to unauthorized data access. Your goal here is to ensure there are no security vulnerabilities or performance issues as the system scales.

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Management Azure SaaS Systems Review 105

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021. Here’s what we learned. . What’s accelerating this marketplace movement?

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

This allows their team to focus on product, sales, and customer success while staying lean. MetricFire is a full-scale platform that offers infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Stripe is the leading payment processing service for SaaS and subscription businesses.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If your website is down, you can’t make sales, and you could quickly lose customers to the competition. Special events like Black Friday sales or the holiday season come to mind. UptimeRobot offers reliable website monitoring tools and will easily scale with your business as it grows. Uptime Monitoring. Load Testing.

DevOps as a Service 145

DevOps as a Service Software Review GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Systems Review 145

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

The three major cloud service models are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Cloud service models in 2020. We are not considering those in our comparison of cloud services. With PaaS, developers can create everything from simple apps to complex cloud-based business software. The benefits when choosing each cloud service.

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions. Think: cloud platforms and operating systems like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Salesforce ecosystem, or a payment platform. What is an ISV Partner?

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

Audacix

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point.

Cloud 49

Cloud Cybersecurity Scale Transportation 49

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. Nicole is the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. She also founded and leads the Atlanta Chapter of Revenue Collective. What You’ll Learn.

Sales Hiring 85

Sales Hiring Scale Marketing AWS 85

IT World

APRIL 8, 2020

VMware has pumped out a key version of its core networking software with over 100 new features and added security and application-management support all designed to help customers build and run large scale virtual networks. To read this article in full, please click here

Azure 52

Azure Software Scale Management 52

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services.

Azure 52

Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

How is it leading a company where the community is presumably as important to you as the product itself? Specifically, it’s what we call actually “The Loop”, which is a large-scale survey that we run. That includes our technical sites like Server Fault and DevOps and so on. So, it’s really 120 million.

DevOps as a Service 143

DevOps as a Service Government Engineering Technology 143

BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

Achieving RBAC at scale. Achieving RBAC at scale. Scale becomes an additional challenge when managing user lifecycles across an entire digital workplace with tens or hundreds of SaaS apps. Over time, it’s all too easy to simply grant access to more data and controls than necessary, leading to increased risk.

Azure 52

Azure AWS Technical Review Scale 52

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity AWS Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

Navint

AUGUST 26, 2019

Having worked for both Apttus and Salesforce, Sean Joyce , the Salesforce practice lead for Navint, is in a unique position to share his perspectives on Apttus returning to its Salesforce roots. Apttus built their applications on the Microsoft Azure platform with the goal of opening new markets, specifically with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Azure 40

Azure Outsourced Development Scale Finance 40

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At its core, gross margin (GM) speaks to the relationship between sales and its costs. Understand the levers of costs, also known as cost of goods sold (COGS) or cost of sales (COS). It tracks the quality of engagement with your product and is a non-financial leading indicator of your product’s usage.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52