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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Specifically, how do I get this product I know is valuable in the hands of everyone it can be valuable to. As I have discussed in previous essays , product/market fit can be hard to interpret at the time.

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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 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. This is products that sell themselves.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. If the market is large, your product can grow inside it for a long time.

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Changing the Way We Work with Founding Partner Lan Xuezhao at Basis Set Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started Basis Set Ventures in 2017. From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. And it is extremely especially important in a market where certain aspects become more important because we’re, in a downturn. debt ventures.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? 242: It’s the employees’ market. But to our episode today and an individual that I’ve learned so much from in the past, both personally and through his writing, and so I could not be more thrilled to welcome back Dave Kellogg to the hot seat today.