Core References
“Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and Saas”
2012 Update, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Still Timeless Wisdom
“SaaS Metrics 2.0 – A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters”
2/19/2013, David Skok, Matrix Partners
- Great Blog on Crucial Metrics
Taxonomies
“NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture”
9/7/2011, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Good reference on defining Cloud taxonomies
“Bessemer Venture Partners Cloudscape”
Bessemer Venture Partners
- Top 300 Private Cloud Companies
Companies
Worthwhile Blogs & Podcasts
“Cloud Strategies Blog”
Dave Key
- Quite Insightful, (Ok its ours :-))
“Chaotic Flow”
Joel York
- SaaS marketing and finance insights
“Tomasz Tunguz Blog”
Redpoint Venture Capital
- Insightful VC Cloud Perspective
Essential Conferences for SaaS Companies
Totango Customer Success Summit
San Francisco, CA
March 22-23
- The first conference focused on SaaS Customer Success
- Customer Success has rapidly become integral to SaaS Success
- Essential Conference for Security
- Security is no longer a “nice-to-have” for SaaS
- The largest Customer Success Conference
- Salesforce’s annual conference is still the biggest “go to” event in SaaS
RSA Conference
San Francisco, CA
April 20-24
Gainsight Pulse
San Francisco, CA
May 12-13
Dreamforce
San Francisco, CA
September 15-18
