Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Besides building a growth model and forecasting your growth from it, which I absolutely recommend you should do, what are the factors that contribute to how quickly you need to be investing in that second product after the first product finds product/market fit? B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion?

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. Think of the business model behind being an independent board member.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & 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. Customer acquisition. There’s obviously hybrid models. Transcript.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

As for John, prior to Domo he served as vice president for strategy and business operations for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, driving more than $3 billion in annual revenue. Adobe was a fantastic experience, and we did about $10 billion in acquisitions and grew that business to $3.5 billion in annual revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. Obviously we’ve seen a lot of changes in terms of tech and business models, but what would you say has stayed the same in that space?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . Marketplaces will enable creative and flexible new business models.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. How the hell does that happen? As a result, Buildium took many chances on up and coming talent—myself included.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

As the old adage goes, you have to spend money to make money – SaaS businesses are no exception. Collectively, these expenses are referred to as Customer Acquisition Costs, or CAC for short. While CAC is accepted as a cost of doing business, it should not be a blank check for your sales & marketing team.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

It produces a challenging messaging strategy because if your primary business model is selling support on an open-source project, you’re kind of incentivizing your team to build shitty software, and nobody ends up happy. A lot of your top-of-funnel is focused on converting open-source users to paying customers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. I’m Sameer Dholakia, CEO of now Twilio SendGrid as of Friday after our completed acquisition.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. If we think back on 2018 alone, over 90 billion dollars of acquisition activity, as the legacy vendors tried to buy their way into this space to catch up with the wave that the innovators have been leading. Twice for retail.

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