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Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR … And Beyond!

SaaStr

Dharmesh and I knew a lot about services and a lot about how to do SEO and content marketing. ’ We always thought that there’d be a giant market down below that Fortune 500 for startups that wanted to scale from 2 employees to 2000 employees and build a killer product for those people.

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The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

In either case, marketing ushers customers through substantially more of the funnel, than in the past. This change has three important ramifications for SaaS startups. First, the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly. The most recent landscape for marketing products totaled more than 2000 alternatives.

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How to calculate LTV for Shopify Partner Apps

Baremetrics

For example, if you have 2000 users and 100 leave your site over the course of a month, then your customer churn is: (100/2000) × 100 = 5%. For example, it costs you $2500 in advertising, content marketing, customer service outreach, and running the free trial to get a customer to sign up for your app.

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The Definitive List of Top SaaS Blogs and Influencers

SaaSHolic

He has a very good weekly SaaS email newsletter and pretty awesome entrepreneurship and business podcast together with Steli Efti, The Startup Chat podcast. Steli Efti Founder and CEO of Close.io , Steli is a well-known reference for startups and B2B sales and prides himself on being a hustler. Director of Product Management.

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The Definitive List of Top SaaS Blogs and Influencers

SaaSHolic

He has a very good weekly SaaS email newsletter and pretty awesome entrepreneurship and business podcast together with Steli Efti, The Startup Chat podcast. Steli Efti Founder and CEO of Close.io , Steli is a well-known reference for startups and B2B sales and prides himself on being a hustler. Director of Product Management.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

As for Godard, he founded his first business, BigMachines, in 2000, a business he scaled to $50m in revenue and over 300 people up until it’s acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for $400m. Having been a Founder through the bust of 2000, how did seeing that macro environment impact his operating mentality today?

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10 Smart Ways To Build Your Email List 10x Faster

Teamgate

Sure, social media and content marketing are incredibly powerful tools to grow your business too, but comparing them with email marketing would be like comparing apples with oranges. However, to effectively spend your marketing budget, you need to identify channels that generate the best results for you. Absolutely not.

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