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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Specifically, how do I get this product I know is valuable in the hands of everyone it can be valuable to. This can be new growth loops for the same product, or entirely new products.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. And when I was at Google, we did a couple acquisitions. Want to see more content like this session?

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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

Sales Hacker

Join us for an entrepreneurial conversation about how to modernize your talent acquisition approach for both high growth and long-term growth. The importance of listening to the market instead of pursuing growth. 4 ways to modernize talent acquisition. 4 ways to modernize talent acquisition [22:26]. powered by Sounder.

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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Subscribe to get the rest of the series.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

When we made the acquisition, I remember being in a meeting with our senior executives. It had much larger brand awareness in the market. About four months after we made the acquisition, we announced to the team we were changing the name. What’s the go to market motion look like? And it was like, “Okay.

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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. A business he scaled to 50 million dollars in revenue and over 300 people up until its acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for 400 million dollars.

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