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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. billion from 2019 to 2020.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019. This podcast is an excerpt from Ashley’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. In 2019, Facebook quickly snapped up a visual search startup called GrokStyle , who developed an app that can automatically detect decor and home furniture from a photo. Micro Acquire. Key Features.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PatientPop and Plaid — August 16, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt of Zach and Ari’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. We always talk about metrics and targets and KPIs, but as we know, there’s real people building these businesses and behind these numbers. There was the product and the service, which I just completely believed in. Justin Welsh. Zach Perret.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2019

ChurnZero

To help, we’ve curated this watchlist of Customer Success leaders who we believe you’ll gain some inspiration from and see them do great things in 2019. In this role, he leads all aspects of Ellucain’s global Customer Success, Professional Services, and Technology Management organization. So, without further ado… .