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How To Actually Succeed in SaaS: AMA Part 2 with SaaStr Founder And CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Will there be any new categories in the next 5-10 years? Once upon a time, we didn’t have Gainsight, or Gong, or Zoom. Doing outbound well, customer success, account management, and marketing tools are radically different, but the idea of communicating on multiple levels of drip marketing, personalized content, events, webinars, etc.

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Getting conversational: HubSpot’s CEO on a new species of disruptor

Intercom, Inc.

Strong customer relationships are more important than ever for business success, but the old ways of communicating and building relationships with customers are broken. Old communication tools, like email and forms, simply don’t match the ways modern customers want to talk, connect, and receive help.

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Product vs. Product Category: The Challenges of Developing “The Next Big Thing” as a SaaS Start-Up

Baremetrics

Not just a new product; the start of a whole new product category. What is a product category, and how do you recognize whether your great idea promises to become a new class of its own? The journeys of developing a product and developing a product category usually start from a similar place. Table of Contents.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

Learn how Anthony used brand marketing to place Gainsight as the category leader in customer success, how he’s approaching brand marketing at Front, and how you can effectively leverage brand marketing programs in your marketing strategy. . SaaStr 322: ICONIQ Capital General Partner Doug Pepper on Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader.

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The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows

Andreessen Horowitz

Whether it’s a slide deck builder, a video editor, or a photo enhancer, today’s work tools were conceived decades ago — and it shows! There are a few key features we believe products in this category will have: Generation tools that kill the “blank page” problem. Midjourney’s variation and zoom tools are a good example of this.

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Mental Models UX: What is It and How to Leverage It?

User Pilot

It’s no secret that users form mental models as they interact with your product (and other products in the same category), so factoring these mental models in UX design is crucial. Personalized onboarding, in-app guidance, and in-app communication all play a role in fixing misaligned mental models among your users.

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How to use Intercom to generate more leads and close bigger deals – faster

Intercom, Inc.

By combining Intercom’s Business Messenger with other marketing and sales tools in your tech stack, you can create scalable, sophisticated processes to de-anonymize web traffic, score potential leads, route them to the right people, and enable reps to communicate with prospects in the most effective way possible.