Keynote by Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo, VP Global Sales & Customer Success at TravelPerk from #SaaStock17, Traction Stage, RDS, Dublin, Ireland. Tuesday 19th September 2017
Keynote by Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo, VP Global Sales & Customer Success at TravelPerk from #SaaStock17, Traction Stage, RDS, Dublin, Ireland. Tuesday 19th September 2017
How do you ensure growth is good growth? How do you build a durable business that can withstand the challenges that come up? Tolithia Kornweibel, CRO (previously CMO) of Gusto, discusses a CMO-CRO working model that works for long-term, durable growth.
From the Desk of Vanta's CEO: Building to $10MM+ ARR (before taking a Series A)saastr
Have you ever wondered what it takes to aggressively grow a company ahead of institutional fundraising? Join Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder and CEO of Vanta, as she shares the steps taken to achieve 400% YoY growth, and lessons learned throughout Vanta's pre-Series A journey.
Ryan Reisert and Rex Biberston will teach you what to do when you’re not enabled, whether on a team or flying solo. It's all about enabling yourself with the right tools, technologies, and techniques. You'll walk away from this session with everything you need to do so. Get actionable steps to start taking your career into your own hands from two guys who have done just that in their own lives.
Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripesaastr
Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.
We believe that who you are is more important than what you know. The Ecosystems culture is a critical element of who we are. Our purpose to make value clear, along with our core values, drives our work. We're building a passionate and talented team of people who are excited to live these beliefs every day.
We're joining the #CultureCode conversation to share what it's like to be a part of our team.
Key Takeaways from The Sales Development Playbook, part 1 and part 2WhereDat
Key takeaways, section-by-section from the Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
In The Sales Development Playbook, author Trish Bertuzzi shares 3 decades experience on building pipeline and speeding up growth.
In this takeaway:
Part 1 - Strategy
Part 2 - Specilaization
• Introductory meetings and generating qualified opportunities, which one?
• Pursuing qualified opportunities using the PACT method
• When is to build an in-house sales development team?
• Deciding between inbound and outbound marketing
• Gaining clarity of your ICP (ideal customer profile)
• When to separate inbound SDRs and outbound SDRs into separate roles
• Why you should consider a research role
Jaleh Rezaei - How to build a scalable growth engine through speed: 5 actiona...SaaStock
To win in the current market, your marketing strategy means life or death for your business. When it comes to building scalable growth, most marketers and CMOs have it wrong. They focus on content quality, channel strategy and planning, when they should be focused on one thing and one thing only -- SPEED. In this session Jaleh will share actionable strategies that any marketing team can adopt to move 10 times faster and stop wasting time building high quality campaigns that don’t work.
DotYeti.com | How to generate more leads with conversion-rate optimizationRoy Selbach
This presentation is for you if:
- You did not increase your website/campaign conversion rates by at least 30% YoY
- You are only focused in driving visitors, but never analyzed your data
- If you are not able to scale the results from your website
- If you want to grow exponentially with your business
- If you want to design or develop better websites
DotYeti.com is the most creative, on-demand and efficient
graphic design platform, accessible for a flat monthly fee.
www.dotyeti.com
The Playbook to 10 Things a CEO Should and Should Not Expect From the CMO wit...saastr
The Playbook to 10 Things a CEO Should and Should Not Expect From the CMO with Battery Ventures EIR Anthony Kennada and Fmr. Anaplan CMO Maria Pergolino
5 Things You Need to Do to Create a Category (and What Makes Them Super Hard)...saastr
Building a company is hard enough, but what if there's no clear market to launch into? That's the situation Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and CMO Anthony Kennada found themselves in when they joined the company that would become Gainsight in 2013. There was no playbook for category creation, so they built their own—and catapulted Gainsight into one of the fastest growing private companies in the world. Join Nick and Anthony for an open and honest look into their playbook for building the Customer Success category: the needle movers, the mistakes, and everything in between.
Achieving Meaningful Exits in SaaS - Mark MacLeod - Founder at SurePath Capit...SaaStock
Mark MacLeod - Founder at SurePath Capital Partners presented "Achieving Meaningful Exits in SaaS" on the Operator Stage at SaaStock 2016 in Dublin on 22nd September 2016
SaaStock is Europe’s Conference for B2B SaaS at RDS, Dublin Ireland in September 2017
How do you ensure growth is good growth? How do you build a durable business that can withstand the challenges that come up? Tolithia Kornweibel, CRO (previously CMO) of Gusto, discusses a CMO-CRO working model that works for long-term, durable growth.
From the Desk of Vanta's CEO: Building to $10MM+ ARR (before taking a Series A)saastr
Have you ever wondered what it takes to aggressively grow a company ahead of institutional fundraising? Join Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder and CEO of Vanta, as she shares the steps taken to achieve 400% YoY growth, and lessons learned throughout Vanta's pre-Series A journey.
Ryan Reisert and Rex Biberston will teach you what to do when you’re not enabled, whether on a team or flying solo. It's all about enabling yourself with the right tools, technologies, and techniques. You'll walk away from this session with everything you need to do so. Get actionable steps to start taking your career into your own hands from two guys who have done just that in their own lives.
Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripesaastr
Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.
We believe that who you are is more important than what you know. The Ecosystems culture is a critical element of who we are. Our purpose to make value clear, along with our core values, drives our work. We're building a passionate and talented team of people who are excited to live these beliefs every day.
We're joining the #CultureCode conversation to share what it's like to be a part of our team.
Key Takeaways from The Sales Development Playbook, part 1 and part 2WhereDat
Key takeaways, section-by-section from the Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
In The Sales Development Playbook, author Trish Bertuzzi shares 3 decades experience on building pipeline and speeding up growth.
In this takeaway:
Part 1 - Strategy
Part 2 - Specilaization
• Introductory meetings and generating qualified opportunities, which one?
• Pursuing qualified opportunities using the PACT method
• When is to build an in-house sales development team?
• Deciding between inbound and outbound marketing
• Gaining clarity of your ICP (ideal customer profile)
• When to separate inbound SDRs and outbound SDRs into separate roles
• Why you should consider a research role
Jaleh Rezaei - How to build a scalable growth engine through speed: 5 actiona...SaaStock
To win in the current market, your marketing strategy means life or death for your business. When it comes to building scalable growth, most marketers and CMOs have it wrong. They focus on content quality, channel strategy and planning, when they should be focused on one thing and one thing only -- SPEED. In this session Jaleh will share actionable strategies that any marketing team can adopt to move 10 times faster and stop wasting time building high quality campaigns that don’t work.
DotYeti.com | How to generate more leads with conversion-rate optimizationRoy Selbach
This presentation is for you if:
- You did not increase your website/campaign conversion rates by at least 30% YoY
- You are only focused in driving visitors, but never analyzed your data
- If you are not able to scale the results from your website
- If you want to grow exponentially with your business
- If you want to design or develop better websites
DotYeti.com is the most creative, on-demand and efficient
graphic design platform, accessible for a flat monthly fee.
www.dotyeti.com
The Playbook to 10 Things a CEO Should and Should Not Expect From the CMO wit...saastr
The Playbook to 10 Things a CEO Should and Should Not Expect From the CMO with Battery Ventures EIR Anthony Kennada and Fmr. Anaplan CMO Maria Pergolino
5 Things You Need to Do to Create a Category (and What Makes Them Super Hard)...saastr
Building a company is hard enough, but what if there's no clear market to launch into? That's the situation Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and CMO Anthony Kennada found themselves in when they joined the company that would become Gainsight in 2013. There was no playbook for category creation, so they built their own—and catapulted Gainsight into one of the fastest growing private companies in the world. Join Nick and Anthony for an open and honest look into their playbook for building the Customer Success category: the needle movers, the mistakes, and everything in between.
Achieving Meaningful Exits in SaaS - Mark MacLeod - Founder at SurePath Capit...SaaStock
Mark MacLeod - Founder at SurePath Capital Partners presented "Achieving Meaningful Exits in SaaS" on the Operator Stage at SaaStock 2016 in Dublin on 22nd September 2016
SaaStock is Europe’s Conference for B2B SaaS at RDS, Dublin Ireland in September 2017
2017 SMB Cloud Summit: Investment Climate for Small Business SaaS – Temperatu...Localogy
This presentation was delivered at the first ever Local Search Association SMB Cloud Summit in San Francisco 12.7.17. For more visit: http://bit.ly/2nGhO8s
Strategic Capital Partners offers a multitude of funding options to small business owners across the nation. Speed, simplicity, and security are the driving factors behind everything we provide to our clients. Upon submitting your application, we review it with a dedicated funding advisor. We then search our vast network of lenders to find the best funding options available to perfectly meet the demands of your business. Small business is the backbone of America and Strategic Capital Partners is the backbone of small business.
Start-up Series Part 4: From First Customers To Scale & GrowthFluid
This webinar will show you how to scale and grow your business once you’ve taken your product to market.
-Look at practical examples and case studies.
-Discover key growth resources provided by the University of Utah and Technology & Venture Commercialization and Fluid Advertising.
The Best Partner in providing effective growth resources for Early Stage Companies and Investors
We link Value Creators with companies who want to Leverage Value.
We link you with the right investors. We help you prepare your pitch
to be successful with fundraising.
We help you scale, locally and globally.
We help you to be effective in your commercialization.
We utilize our network and portfolio of companies to leverage partnerships.
We’ve partnered with TechSmith, a global leader in screen recording and screen capture software, to host a webinar showcasing the value of using video to increase customer engagement and boost conversion rates.
Account-Based Marketing: Lessons In Scalability & Impact from 2 Client JourneysDemandbase
How do you scale account-based marketing (ABM)? That’s a critical question for many companies right now. Two SiriusDecisions clients, Medidata and Demandbase, are really getting it right with their efforts and we invite you to learn from them and see how to enhance your company’s ABM deployment. For Medidata, ABM in its first year delivered a 714% improvement in senior executive engagement and 159% improvement in marketing sourced pipeline in target accounts. For Demandbase, this meant close rates were doubled, and Annual Contract Values increased by more than 30%.
http://go.siriusdecisions.com/LessonsinScalabilityWebcast
Rory O’Driscoll - The war is over and the cloud won. What comes next?SaaStock
The COVID recession has not impacted the 20-year love affair investors have had with SaaS. But as the era of "SaaS for X" draws to a close, where are the next opportunities for today's cloud startups? Rory O’Driscoll, partner at Scale Venture Partners and early investor in SaaS pioneers like Box, Docusign, and Bill.com, takes a data-driven look at the evolution of the SaaS market then looks ahead to the next generation of enterprise software: the Intelligent Connected World.
Jacco vanderKooij - This time it’s personal: Business ethics & ego in a globa...SaaStock
The moral imperative for SaaS vendors is the idea that "what got you to this point, will not get you to the next point". Many founders/leaders of a company have achieved their success by bucking the trend and ignoring the advice of trusted advisors. This for many is perceived as having an ego. But this was needed for survival to make it this far. Then suddenly this method stops working. That point has come for many of us, as the problems we face today are far greater than any single company can tackle. It requires companies to work together as a team, it asks for die hard competitors (Apple and Google) to create a unified front, and may even require a joint venture between a multinational and a small start-up with innovative products. This is the time to put your ego in check and let common sense prevail.
Andy Byrne - Your checklist for revenue confidenceSaaStock
How can you create confidence in your revenue outlook at a time when all your planning assumptions have changed? When Covid hit, leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms asked Clari CEO Andy Byrne to call on the company’s experience to deliver a series of clinics on this question for CEO’s of portfolio companies. In this practical how-to session Andy shares the checklist of 13 must-do tasks and analyses revenue leaders can take their team through to establish certainty of their revenue outlook. Attendees will get practical guidance on assessing pipeline risk, protecting renewals and finding new sources of growth.
Aaron Ross - The playbook to (re)igniting growthSaaStock
The world’s economies aren’t going to recover anytime soon. There’s more risk – and opportunity – than ever before. How can a business pivot, survive and thrive? Based on the very newest material in the 2nd Edition of From Impossible To Inevitable, Aaron Ross dives into the surprisingly few big levers that ignite – or stifle – growth. Based on lessons learned from some of the world’s fastest growing companies, including:
• Entrepreneurial Depression and the Anxiety Economy
• How to cut through customer and prospect paralysis
• How $3B Investor Sagemount Triples Company Valuations In Three Years
• How Twilio Nailed A Billion Dollar Niche
• 3 Uncommon Practices of Hypergrowth CMOs
Tricia Gellman - Re-think the funnel: High-touch engagements in a low-touch w...SaaStock
It’s official. The digital future is here. It’s not going anywhere, and if you’re not on board, you’re in trouble. So, in this new world where digital channels have become the primary (and sometimes the only) customer-engagement model, how can you adapt and thrive? Tricia Gellman, CMO of Drift will discuss exactly that, and how in a new low-touch world, you can continue to have high-touch engagements and hit your revenue goals. You'll uncover how savvy marketers can “think outside the screen”, optimise different channels and double down on customer experience and communication.
Tomasz Tunguz - 10 Learnings from Redpoint 2020 GTM SurveySaaStock
Glean insights into the current state of Go-to-Market Strategy through a data-driven analysis led by Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. This presentation will outline the Top 10 learnings from the Redpoint 2020 GTM Survey and provide a snapshot of the best practices performed by industry leaders across growth stages. What are the most common structures for sales, account executives, and development representatives teams? How much of your ARR should be spent on marketing programs? What gross margin payback period should you be targeting? These questions and more will be answered in a cohort analysis of over 500 companies.
Rafael Sweary - Shifting priorities, reducing risk and strategizing for the n...SaaStock
COVID-19 sent the entire ecosystem into a new reality. Rafael Sweary, co-founder and president of WalkMe, the leading Digital Adoption Platform will share how WalkMe, with 800+ employees and 10 global offices, quickly adopted its plan and execution and turned the COVID-19 disruption into a big opportunity. The session includes in-depth, multi-faceted explorations of the complex issues (from shifting product priorities to board communication) and provides a practical guide, tips, and proprietary data that you can use in your plan today.
Nathan Latka - Grow 2x during crisis: The secret to Customers, Cash, and Crea...SaaStock
Nathan Latka is a tour-de-force of data. Over the last few months he’s collected 3 tactics for customers, cash, and growth by interviewing 100 SaaS CEO's during COVID. In this session, we'll talk through all 9 tactics so you can:
- Grow your customers even when you think you can't
- Get cash from places you didn't know you had access to
- Drive growth using tactics no one knew about 3 months ago
If you want up-to-the-minute, on-the-money insights alongside hard metrics; this is the session for you.
Meagen Eisenburg - Marketing in times of crisisSaaStock
The true test of marketers. Are you a revenue driver or a cost center? You cannot afford to be the latter. Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs - the biggest impact for the business. Join TripActions CMO Meagen Eisenberg as she highlights her approach to ensuring Marketing delivers on its mission-critical role even in times of uncertainty or crisis.
Matt Henderson - Walking the SaaS tightrope: Protecting revenue whilst plotti...SaaStock
For most SaaS companies, now is the time to carefully protect revenue. As lockdown and shelter-in-place measures begin to lift, attention must turn to the economic recovery. SaaS has a major role to play. SaaS improves the efficiency of existing businesses, makes it cheaper and easier to start new ones, and lowers the barriers to economic access. As a result SaaS companies need to combine two modes of thinking: protecting revenue today, whilst plotting growth tomorrow.
Mark Roberge - The science of re-establishing growth: When, where, and howSaaStock
Over the past few months, we have moved our operation into a virtual setting, reset budgets and revenue plans, and pivoted to target market and messaging aligned with the economic context. Now what? Are we being too aggressive? Or too conservative? What should we be tracking to understand these critical questions? Mark Roberge, managing director at Stage 2 Capital, professor at Harvard Business School, and former CRO at HubSpot, will share his frameworks to quantitatively answer when, where, and how to scale. He will present the scientific, data-driven approach he implements in companies to assess product-market-fit, go-to-market-fit, and the appropriate pace of scale. He will also illustrate front-line tactics used to accelerate companies toward re-establishing growth.
Henry Schuck - Hit Your Number: How ZoomInfo Developed a Winning (and Leading...SaaStock
With the recent COVID-19 crisis and its massive-scale impact on shifting market trends and budgets, sales organizations are now faced with two options: sink or swim. Who is your ideal buyer? What does the new remote selling look like? How can (and should) you adapt? You’ll walk away from this session learning how our best-in-class (now remote) sales team recently blew past our 1,000 demo per day target as well as other major takeaways to help you: Identify your ideal buyer; Shift your selling strategy; Ensure sales effectiveness.
Personio is said to be one of Europe's next unicorns and received a Series C funding led by Accel in January and has the ambitious goal of becoming Europe's leading HR software for SMBs. As we all know, Covid-19 has turned the world upside down and has presented businesses with major, and unthinkable, challenges. Yet as many of us struggle to keep pace with the changing market, Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO of HR software provider Personio, will share his insights on how he led his team in adapting their growth targets and current strategy to the new situation. We’ll dive into how – with the right team, products, and processes – you can continue to accelerate your growth in any situation, no matter the challenge.
David Skok - How to survive and thrive in the post COVID eraSaaStock
David will start at the very high level analyzing the huge forces that are disrupted the world, and then drop down to how they will cause a major shift in the world equivalent to going through the industrial revolution in a highly compressed timetable. He will look at how the new world is going to be different to the old world. He will then look at the macroeconomic impacts, and then drop down a level to look at the impact on the tech industry, and then drop down to look at the impact this will have on your SaaS business. He will discuss how, as a SaaS entrepreneur/CEO you want to take action to reposition your business for the new world. And finally he will give tactical advice on how to minimize churn and optimize bookings.
Vasco Pedro - The future is here: How humans and AI will propel the hybrid wo...SaaStock
The threat of AI taking over our jobs is a belief that many still have today. But nothing can be further from the truth—as with any disruptive technology, some jobs will be replaced by machines, while many more opportunities will be created and augmented for more efficiency and value. This is evident with the current COVID-19 crisis in how organizations that are utilizing a hybrid workforce of humans and AI-powered virtual agents have been able to optimize the customer experience. While conversational AI provides 24/7 automated self-service, live agents are given more bandwidth to focus on more complex, higher-value work that requires personal interactions.
Tim McCormick - SaaSOptics Case Study: Increasing cash flow in a crisisSaaStock
In this keynote, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick will discuss the difficult balancing act of getting cash in the door by reducing AR balance while also maintaining a positive relationship with your customers in the process. After all, we’re all feeling the effects of COVID-19's economic impact. Attend, and you’ll learn:
-How we reduced AR balance by 70%
-How to automate collections communications
-How to reallocate your resources to better support your customers"
Some companies struggle to unlock growth despite having happy customers and Product-Market-Fit. Unlocking growth requires the company to find Go-To-Market Fit. Tae Hea shares a way to find GTM Fit -- called “Surfing to GTM Fit.” Why surfing? Unlocking growth feels like the transition from paddling to surfing. Surfing is a three step process: 1) catching the wave (finding the urgent pain to get leads), 2) riding the wave (executing a playbook to find and close the same type of customers), and 3) having the right surfboard (personalizing your GTM model).
Kristen Habacht - Gimme the leads: Aligning sales and marketing at the right ...SaaStock
No one likes scoring MQLs to find the best leads to follow up with, and account-based marketing has played a key role in driving revenue growth. As the conversation in SaaS turns to moving marketing’s focus further down the funnel, the sales and marketing teams must work with ever-greater synchronicity. But there's still a case for qualified leads, especially when selling to smaller companies with a high-velocity sales cycle. We explore successful lead-gen strategies that have struck the balance between account-based and high-velocity marketing to drive qualified leads into the arms of hungry salespeople.
Keith Casey - Transform the customer experience with a modern customer identi...SaaStock
With an abundance of devices, increasing reliance on technology, rapidly-evolving customer requirements, and higher expectations for security, privacy, and customer experience, companies who want to succeed must find ways to ensure their customers can engage with their services at any time, from any device, in a secure and safe manner. A modern CIAM solution must not only meet today’s security and compliance standards but create frictionless customer experiences to meet customers where they are in the ways they need. This webinar will focus on key trends to guide organizations as they design a ciam solution that will meet their current and future needs: ciam and iam features are increasingly overlapping; frictionless, consistent omni-channel experiences facilitated by single sign-on; improved developer support; further emphasis on security and compliance
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Scaling SMB SaaS
1. M A R K M A C L E O D , @ S TA R T U P C F O
S C A L I N G S M B S A A S
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A g e n d a
Introduction
The SME Market
Scaling Challenges
Scaling Strategies & Lessons
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I n t r o d u c t i o n
M A R K M A C L E O D
F O U N D E R & P R E S I D E N T
S U R E PAT H C A P I TA L PA R T N E R S
Mark has over 14 years experience as a CFO for leading companies such as FreshBooks,
Shopify, Tungle and many others. He also spent 3 years as a General Partner at Real Ventures,
Canada’s largest and most active seed stage venture fund.
He has raised hundreds of millions in capital from investors in Canada, the US and Asia. In
addition, Mark has sold companies to Airbnb, Blackberry, Rackable Systems, Return Path and
others.
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S u r e P a t h : O u r P u r p o s e
Helping fund, grow and exit SaaS and commerce companies
The process of raising growth capital is very different from raising early stage capital
It is cheaper than ever to start companies, but more expensive than ever to build market leaders. If that’s your
aspiration, you need growth capital
We help startups prepare for growth stage and help them raise the capital needed to become market leaders
We have sat on both sides of the table. We have funded, grown and exited many companies
We offer up that experience through ongoing coaching and mentoring.
A low touch, high impact way to help you grow
There are few credible choices for advisors to facilitate sub $100M exits. We fill that gap
We work with you to facilitate the BD and Corp Dev intros that pave the way to an eventual exit
If you decide to exit, we manage the process for you from start to finish
SurePath maximizes your optionality:
We make sure you know what it takes to build a market leader and capitalize you towards that goal.
We ensure you are always in the minds of strategic buyers so that if they decide to make a move in your
space, you are in the conversation. You can then decide; Keep going or exit?
Growth
Funding
Strategic
Guidance
Exits
Toronto San Francisco
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S u r e P a t h & S M E
•We have been part of some the most successful SME SaaS companies
•We have deep relationships with SME investors and buyers
•SurePath is committed to becoming the leading strategic financial advisor to the global
SME software market
8. 0-10 employees
27 million
91%
T h e S M E M a r k e t
Source: US Census, US Small Business Administration
400K new business establishments are opened every quarter in the United States.
SMEs account for 99.9% of businesses, and 56% of the workforce.
11-100 employees
1.7 million
6%
100+ employees
1 million
3%
9. S M E M a r k e t Tr e n d s
A change in
the nature of
work
Younger
entrepreneurs
There is always
room for new
players & for
exits
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B e s t i n C l a s s U n i t E c o n o m i c s
48 months
2%/ month (logo)/ -1% (rev)
1/4 of LTV
4x
Tenure
Churn
CAC
LTV/CAC
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S t r a t e g i e s f o r S c a l i n g S M E S a a S
Leverage a low CAC
Freemium
Cross-sell multiple products
Build a channel
Love your customers!
Add Payments
Segment for success
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S t r a t e g y 1 : L o w C o s t o f A c q u i s i t i o n
Grow by creating viral hooks in your product
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S t r a t e g y 2 : F r e e m i u m
1 2
Totally Free
Monetize Through Ads
Free Base Product
Premium Upsell
Pre-requisites for freemium: Large market, incremental cost to serve near zero, differentiated premium
offering to drive conversion
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S t r a t e g y 3 : C r o s s - s e l l P r o d u c t s
Cross-selling products to drive up ARPU and ensure greater reliance on your platform
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S t r a t e g y 4 : B u i l d a C h a n n e l
Going direct to end customer only goes so far - building a channel network facilitates long-term growth
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S t r a t e g y 5 : G i v e G r e a t C u s t o m e r S u p p o r t
Good customer support drives higher NPS and organic growth
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S t r a t e g y 6 : A d d P a y m e n t s
Adding payments creates an opportunity to be further integrated with the customer’s business
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Shopify Revenue
Merchant Solutions Subscription Solutions
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S t r a t e g y 7 : S e g m e n t a t i o n
The SME market is too broad - you need to build for specific verticals and case personas
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K e y I n s i g h t s f r o m S c a l i n g S M E S a a S
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Merchants Have No Time Growing FAST is expensive
NPS is Key Help your customers grow
• AI solutions that leverage
existing content or do-it-for-me
type tools win out against
complicated do-it-yourself tools
• There is a peak natural growth
rate to most product categories.
Growing faster than this can be
expensive
• SMEs talk to each other! A good
net promoter score goes a long
way. Aim for 65 or more
• Products that help SMEs make
revenue always win out against
products that save time for SMEs
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G r e a t T h i n g s Ta k e T i m e
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• Successful companies that scale in the SME SaaS space are not made overnight - many
took decades to grow its user base, brand presence, and ecosystem in order to create a
defensible moat in the space
• Shopify took over a decade to IPO - while most others still remain privately owned
25. Mark MacLeod
Founder & President
mark@surepathcapital.com
416.843.6004
@startupcfo
@surepathcap