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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. It’s the SMB space. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt.

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Why Growth Hacking Doesn’t Scale, And How To Plan For Growth Instead

Sales Hacker

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. In particular, post-2008 when a SaaS solution with its OPEX offering stood out from the conventional CAPEX solutions.

Scale 86
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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Anita Nielsen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

Scale 130
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

SaaStr

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. ” Is it SMB or is it Enterprise? You make that decision based on the fact that your profile fits either an SMB or Enterprise. Then, you can decide, is it a high volume play in the SMB? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

SaaStr

How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team? Karen Page: How does this leadership team gel? Or how the customer service team is going to deal with companies that aren’t renewing as planned? .” It was in 2008 and it was when the little mini computers were the rage.

Scale 173
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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. The company started back in 2007, 2008. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company.

Scale 173