SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

Join Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. René Stewart: So, Monica, you have, obviously, taken a company from figuring out product market fit to now a company of scale.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. What do we believe in as a company in terms of where we want the product to be in a few years? Really it’s more like product market fit solves all problems. Is that not?

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? If you were very focused on financial services in 2008, you were in a lot of trouble.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. what we use today) advanced mobile usage, cloud infrastructure, and interactivity through social media, Web 3.0 Table of Contents. In the 1990s, Web 1.0 Where Web 2.0

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

And like the modern cloud based CRM system was somewhat novel and new. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. They’re not replacing a license and maintenance-installed shrink-wrapped piece of software with that version, only in the cloud. And this is my third SaaS company.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. This is where the cloud meets. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008. You know the deal.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? Your product has value for them.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jason : You launched, it’s a hack in the beginning with 18 months, you’ve got another product line? Jeff : Basically, we launched voice in 2008, very end of 2008.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? The second wave was Salesforce.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

INTRO by Christian Lanng : We do cloud based splicing for the Fortune 5000. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In particular, post-2008 when a SaaS solution with its OPEX offering stood out from the conventional CAPEX solutions. Case in point with Salesforce’s cloud CRM vs. SAP and Oracle’s on-site/perpetual license model. In 2015 Randy had kept pace with the growth in the market. FIND PRODUCT MARKET FIT.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ep 306: Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara as he takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provide an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. This episode is sponsored by Owl Labs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. And finally, before that, Amit was the founder and CEO at SparkThis, an outsource marketing and sales service for cloud companies. Amit Bendov: Product and product marketing.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? So if we start today on the hailed and much discussed topic of product market fit, there’s a common assumption that you find product market fit and then just aggressively scale.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The cloud application service market remains a huge challenge for all newcomers. This view has been fostered by the rapid growth of many commodity-oriented SaaS companies and public cloud services. . Marketing: In this model, high-end marketing that facilitates brand awareness, education and trust-building is used.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

I think this is a really, you know, we entered a new era around about the 2008 timeframe when, finally, we started to get the data that people in sales and marketing wanted to be able to make data-driven decisions. We thought, okay, wait, if we can reinvent business intelligence for the cloud, how would we do it?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? The second wave was Salesforce.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Build the product. Get it into the market. As the evolution of the company, as we started moving up market, started selling to enterprises, it was, “OK.

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