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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. Security — SOC 2 compliance is table stakes. Most founders want to expand their TAM.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. A CFO can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

And as I looked through the list of things like HIPAA compliance and cloud prem solutions that our customers were really, really clamoring for, I thought, “there’s no way we will build any of this,” right? I would say on any given year, it was usually about 10% to 20% of people would actually switch managers.