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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

This is part of a phenomenon called Product Led Growth (PLG) , an end-user growth model that relies on the product itself to be the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. Sounds an awful lot like Sales. No hassle and no credit card required. That includes nearly 20 publicly traded companies. doesn’t it?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.” It’s like, “We could work on acquisition costs,” which we did.

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

SaaStr

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

The acquisition process [21:55]. And really, when I actually lived in Austin in early 2019, and everybody was talking about the TrendKite acquisition and about the impact that you all made even before you and I met. So the inflection point was 2014, 2015… 2014, we did 750,000 and S in ARR. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

Talview offers various services including talent acquisition, online assessments, asynchronous and live video interviews, talent management, remote proctoring, behavioral insights, recruitment marketing, and more. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

What’s their acquisition channel? I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. There was a moment in time when I didn’t have that much to do 2013, 2014, and I was an angel investor, but really a mentor. What’s their NRR? How do they get their customer?