SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Developers are problem-solvers who get deeply invested in their work. As the success of these companies demonstrates, creating a loyal following of developers can pay huge dividends for companies that invest the time and resources to do it right. Invest in comprehensive, high-quality resources (e.g. Rule 1: Show, don’t tell.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Tip #3: June of 2017 brought a big change to password management. The data was collected as part of Exactis’ service as a “compiler and aggregator of premium business and consumer data,” which they then sell for profiling and marketing purposes. paragraph 9, “recommends against the use of composition rules (e.g.,

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Salesflare became one of the CRMs we tinker with back in 2017. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service. Sales Automation/Acceleration We Use.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

But ultimately, who we are today and who we have been over the last several years is really a company that’s been able to aggregate unique data sets across the travel industry, and now we’re moving into adjacent marketplaces as well. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? So what do we do, right? Let’s go do it.

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Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

That’s because the people who are working in the SaaS industry or investing in these businesses are sharing much more of the details about all aspects of growing and scaling a SaaS business. In 2017, companies will find success by getting back to basics and focusing on the “service” part of Software as a Service.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

TaskRabbit I ran for almost a decade, and then we sold it to Ikea, the global furniture brand in 2017, and so now I spend my full-time job as an investor looking at early stage tech companies. I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. The marketplace was doing well.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Because this drives investment decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? We spent most of 2017 building it out. A transactional marketplace like Uber, where riders can actually use it every day for commuting, is very nice. Here’s Rachel.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. Really invest in values and what you stand for. Hear about her takeaways from a product reboot with TaskRabbit.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 25, 2020

It makes it easier to pitch new guest posts and get clients for my content marketing services because I’ve built up this trust. Buffer built a great reputation, which is invaluable when you’re competing in a crowded marketplace. This is even more important if your SaaS is a higher investment and the sales cycle is long.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Cloud application services (SaaS) to reach $126 billions by the end of 2021. Services that are seeing most adoption by the companies include cloud consulting, implementation, migration, and management. Services that are seeing most adoption by the companies include cloud consulting, implementation, migration, and management.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 25, 2020

It makes it easier to pitch new guest posts and get clients for my content marketing services because I’ve built up this trust. Buffer built a great reputation, which is invaluable when you’re competing in a crowded marketplace. This is even more important if your SaaS is a higher investment and the sales cycle is long.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

For example, if I were doing this for my content marketing service, Grizzle , I would ask my clients questions like: What does your current PR system look like? For professional services, there’s a sweet spot. Simply ask them if they know of anyone else who may be looking for a service like yours. Remember, don’t be pushy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10. We’re basically the world’s biggest business marketplace. We help buyers of software and services find the best vendors or the best sellers of the products they need. Ryan joined G2.com Prior to G2.com,

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. But these established companies drive what’s called “sustaining innovations,” which are modifications and improvements on existing services.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Paul’s engrossed in Principles by Ray Dalio, which follows an investment banker’s successes, failures and future redemption guided by a set of ideals. I think what happened was – with bots specifically, through 2016 and 2017 – a lot of it was on Facebook Messenger. There are really fuzzy end points to it. I do think it will continue.

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