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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. Live and die by the forecast.

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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this? Overwhelmed.

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The Evolution of SaaS Architecture

Frontegg

The software development world has changed dramatically over the last few years. More and more applications are being developed as micro frontends as well.This post will follow the evolution of SaaS architecture: from monolithic applications through the microservices era, to today’s micro frontends. SEE HOW EASY IT IS. Cool, isn’t it?

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Selling to Fortune 500 Companies (An Easy 3-Step Process)

Sales Hacker

At Ghostery, our tiny enterprise sales team has closed almost half of the top 25 eCommerce retailers. He gave each person on the sales team a $5,000 budget to act like a marketer. My approach was different than the rest of the team. Let me explain. The $5K Experiment. Bottom Line: Selling to Fortune 500 Companies.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone.

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How SaaS teams can perform security testing for web applications & APIs

Audacix

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.