SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. Yammer was really launched entirely as a web page product. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2016

The probability of discovering product/market fit early, of hiring a great technical team, finding the right initial reference customers. Many different factors influence those chances: the founding team, the product itself, the pitch, the competitive environment, the press, ability to raise capital.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. How do you know when you’ve reached Product-Market Fit?

Payment Solutions 113

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Hitenism

APRIL 24, 2017

Back in 2010, on a Monday at 5 PM, I found myself at a bar called Memphis in Southern California in a heated discussion with two close friends. At early stage start-ups, avoiding these silos from the start is advised, but as a start-up grows, more traditional marketing groups can be established alongside a dedicated growth team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. It was a collaborative, kind of a Slack-type product that was mobile-focused.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. million apiece.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. How do you know when you’ve reached Product-Market Fit?

Payment Solutions 52

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