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GTM 126: Reverse Engineering the Founder Journey: From Scaling Twitter Ads to $650M, 20 Years Operating, and a Webflow Acquisition | Guy Yalif

Sales Hacker

Advertisers were like, you have commercial intent here. Native advertising was not, it didn’t exist, right? Mobile was a kind of advertising back then. It’s like, on the base of the company was already 400 people and already, you talk about having a brand already. They made it really clear. Now it’s an old hat.

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88% of B2B IPOs Have Founder CEOs. And Those Ones Do Far, Far Better

SaaStr

In fact, every major B2B IPO in 2024-2025 maintained founder leadership: ServiceTitan (Dec 2024): Ara Mahdessian, co-founder/CEO – 42% first-day pop MNTN (May 2025): Mark Douglas, founder/CEO – connected TV advertising platform Hinge Health (May 2025): Daniel Perez, co-founder/CEO – 22% surge on debut Circle (June 2025): Jeremy Allaire, (..)

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The Great IPO Awakening: What 2025’s Surprisingly Hot Market Means for B2B Companies

SaaStr

from IPO price Key Learning : Connected TV advertising platforms are capturing premium valuations as brands shift budgets from traditional TV to programmatic CTV Hinge Health (05/21/2025) IPO Size : $503M at $28-32 range, priced at $32 Current Performance : +21.5% at $47-55 range, priced at $40 Current Performance : +250.4%

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Your App Is Live—Now What? A Guide to Mobile User Acquisition

User Pilot

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? There are many ways to approach each, so lets go over nine of the most effective strategies for mobile user acquisition: 1. Integrate product-led growth in your acquisition strategy I said earlier that you shouldnt rely on your product alone to attract mobile users.

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Can Mobile Games Really Achieve >50% of Revenue From D2C?

FastSpring

And it’s hard to do revenue share with an advertising based model. David Vogelpohl (FastSpring) (08:06) And casual games are more likely to use advertising as the baseline of their revenue. On this question of why, though, like one thing I never hear game publishers talk about is player acquisition. OK, it makes sense.

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Who Should Marketing Report To? What 3,000+ Companies Actually Do (And Why It Matters)

SaaStr

How Parallel Marketing Organizations Work Marketing Org #1: Brand & Strategic Marketing (Reports to CEO/CPO) Brand positioning and messaging Content marketing and thought leadership Product marketing and go-to-market strategy Public relations and analyst relations Long-term market research and competitive intelligence Event marketing and community (..)

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

Is there any kind of places where geographically you’re seeing like we’re starting to see a lot more business or a lot more acquisitions in these regions? Blake Hutchison (13:13) and in organic growth through acquisition and they find that asset happens to be that the perfect asset is operating out of Europe.