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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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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. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. The path to success is not linear.

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Buying your next SaaS app: Get answers to 7 key InfoSec questions

BetterCloud

This is why security teams require SaaS security assessments. It gives the bad actor access to a users browser, hijacks the session, and then redirects the user to malicious sites. Stolen credentials: Stealing user access permissions or exploiting weak passwords, is another threat to all organizations. But whats in them?

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The Agile Arrow – a visual framework for managing complex sales deals

Intercom, Inc.

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

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Smart SaaS budgeting: Refine your spend strategy for 2025

BetterCloud

SaaS budgeting checklist In addition to the amount of money you already spend on SaaS, you should also check: Term lengths of your current contracts How many seats do you get for each application How often these applications are used Who manages the application for each department This will give you a more clear snapshot of your SaaS situation.

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5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Developing an Effective Long-Term Data Strategy for Your Company

OpenView Labs

But, it’s possible to successfully to develop an effective short and long-term data strategy. You will need to keep track of all the data that you collect to ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR and any future equivalents. These tools then go unused until it is time to renew those contracts. Development Team Size.