SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software. Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2021

There’s so much incredible new content on the SaaStr YouTube Channel and podcast — check it all out here ! And with 20+ sessions from the recent SaaStr Enterprise to dig into alone, as well as an incredible new session with the CEO of Klaviyo. OK — now on to The Top 10. The 10 most watched videos of the week.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Here are a few types of visual content that we share to engage people directly on LinkedIn: Data graphics and reports Podcast audio snippets Webinar video snippets Customer interviews Customer quote cards Slides Infographics Culture and achievement photos Cloud cost memes A few examples of our visual content 2. Cloud), niche hashtags (ex.#CloudCostOptimization,

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

It’s a time when SaaS and Cloud spend are also at record highs , and many Cloud leaders are still growing at strong rates … yet many startups have stopped growing at all. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share up front why your first CTO left. So 2023 is a unique time in venture fundraising.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Want to see more content like this session?

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. According to the Wall Street Journal , the cloud unit has pushed “Amazon to record profit.”. Rewrite the blog post until you have something you’d be happy publishing. AWS is now an $11.5B AWS is now an $11.5B

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. The first era of Cloud was around ‘99 when Salesforce pioneered the shift.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. The co-founders of Hubspot were at SaaStr Annual last year and said that for two years, they each had to write a blog post every single day. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. People don’t do that today.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

The concept was the foundation for his popular talk and ultimately his classic, long-form blog post. That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. This was a team value that became to talk, when led to a blog post and ultimately this conversation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. If you read SaaStr, it’s been a recurring theme.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Founded in 2021, Lottie has since expanded to include Found by Lottie, a cloud-based software for care providers, and Seniorcare by Lottie, which supports employers in delivering top-tier eldercare benefits. a next-generation AI-driven autonomous driving system that adapts to new environments through data-driven learning.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

His Simple Programmer blog, a place that’s already frequented by thousands of developers, is a mandatory bookmark. #2 Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. You can also find his detailed articles and guide on his blog – AddyOsmani.com. #4 4 Dan Abramov.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies. Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life. Balancing human-computer interaction. What are the enduring themes that you’ve noticed?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. Craig : Yeah. We also do UberConference.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Read more about QuikNode Definitely take a look at QuikNode's blog.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Related : 10 Companies Show you their Go-to-Market Strategies Also see : 3 Copywriting Secrets for Ranking on Google And : Using Jobs to be Done Method to Explain What Your Company Does Contents Skip this blog post and just read the book Why positioning matters What is positioning? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Read all of Petri’s thoughts and observations on his blog . Anything less is not acceptable.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs. No worries! No harm no foul!

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Upscope

MAY 25, 2021

This new developer hub will contain all the key information and links required for you as a developer to test and configure Upscope co-browsing. Here's an interview with our CTO on how co-browsing technology works. It's a live document and will be updated regularly. In addition, this makes it secure for the user.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

And while we were tinkering, we were building little sensor systems, cause we knew how to make hardware and we knew how to cloud connect it.” Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. So we became fascinated by the market and the customer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! On Wednesday, March 11, we’re bring the CIOs and CXOs from Adobe, Intuit, Google Cloud, Nutanix, Zendesk, Zoom, Box, Pagerduty, Coupa and 100s more together with 150+ CEOs that sell to the enterprise and are at $15m+ ARR. The headline metrics: 15,000+ attendees.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. Casey Winters.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 16, 2025

That’s why we’re thrilled to back Hammerspace and lead their $100m Series B, the company building a new kind of data platform - a parallel global file system with automated data orchestration for the AI and hybrid cloud era. Their CTO, Trond Myklebust is equally impressive.

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Scytale

APRIL 23, 2025

Though daunting at first, SOC 2 compliance is critical for many cloud-based solutions that store customer data, ensuring your organization meets those security compliance demands from customers, has the highest levels of data protection, and wins more deals , faster. How to achieve SOC 2 success Now lets get practical.

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Scytale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s particularly relevant for SaaS companies, cloud providers, and tech-based services that manage sensitive client data. Well, the good news is they’re essentially the same: both indicate that your company adheres to SOC 2’s security standards and guidelines.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. If retention slips, you end up overspending on acquiring new users instead of growing revenue from those you already have. So, how do you offer value the moment a new user opens your app? Jose Gomez, CTO & Co-Founder at Evinex.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. It’s in New York. Mark Suster, his blog was out there. The people who’ve been selling as long as I have know these blogs and podcasts. The other thing is, I live in New Orleans. Why HG Insights?

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