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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. And so, the way whenever I’m doing diligence in a company to tell if this is actually happening, is I call their customers.

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Taming SaaS Security Challenges with the Zero Trust Security Model

BetterCloud

The current network-based security architecture is no longer adequate due to the rise of the mobile workforce and the rapidly growing number of applications in the cloud. With demonstrable success from Netflix and AWS, more companies are starting to offer their core businesses as microservices to expand their customer and revenue base.

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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

Sales Hacker

I figured out how to gain the system there to make ads not work that well. Reviews, they took over a lot of the reputation stuff. When Yext started our core business as it exists today in about 2009 or 2010 Yelp was something like 65% of all online reviews. But what you can do things about is how many reviews do I have?

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

My job was to look at what was happening in the world economy – it was like 2010 at the time, and so everything was kind of falling apart – and then look at data about it and try to come up with recommendations about what policymakers should do. This is where your company Mode comes in. Benn: For sure. The core of this is the data warehouse.

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11 Disruptive Innovation Examples (And Why Uber and Tesla Don’t Make the Cut)

OpenView Labs

But due to their low costs and other advantages, they move quickly up the market and eventually become more appealing than their sophisticated competitors. They serve a smaller low-end target market at first, before expanding to a vast market due to their accessibility. By 2010, Blockbuster had gone bankrupt.”.