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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

This is the same advice they give YC companies to become much more successful at fundraising when they’re pre-product market fit. Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking.

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How to Build a Conversion Path: Step-by-Step Process

User Pilot

Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). Prioritize middle- and bottom-of-the-funnel content, presenting your product as a solution to specific problems relevant to a particular user persona. Userpilot blog post. Attest website. An Ahrefs blog post.

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14 User Behavior Trends For SaaS in 2024

User Pilot

The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods. Predictive analytics are driving business decisions such as product and marketing strategy. Personalized experiences are becoming standard in the SaaS world.

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10 Learnings on High-Velocity Sales to SMB with Gorgias CEO and VP of Sales

SaaStr

Gorgias, an eCommerce customer service platform, discovered that their customers’ main pain points were a lack of centralized customer support channels and poor integrations. For example, Gorgias knew they were targeting not only eCommerce but also customer service. Firstly, payment should be easy for customers. Make It Simple!

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

Even a stretch one before you have two reps that hit quota because a head of sales’ job is to hire reps three through 300, not to create product market fit. I used to have cuter blog titles. And I went through the math, I hired Loretta at 20K, I didn’t know much about marketing at the time. Two-part question.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

SaaStr

Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Ryan Smith Qualtrics Founder/CEO. In 2004 he became CEO of MarkLogic where he stayed until 2010.

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How To Optimize Your Landing Page For Better PPC

Unbounce

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.