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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains.

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How to Make It Through the Pre-Revenue Startup Phase

Baremetrics

Depending on the amount invested, it is possible that all members of the team are working full time jobs to support themselves and then doing that again to push their startup onto the market. This can be especially difficult if your startup is mostly developers as it requires a different set of skills.

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Product Led Growth: What No One Tells You About That You Really Need to Know

OPEXEngine

Driven by the successes of companies like Slack, Zoom, Calendly, and Dropbox, Product Led Growth—or PLG—is being viewed by some as the new, better, standard for software business models. See enough patterns and the organization develops expertise, which influences product development in a virtuous cycle. Blake Bartlett.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. What do I need funding for?

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An Inside Look at How SurveyMonkey Overhauled Pricing After 10 Years

OpenView Labs

Pri Carr leads SurveyMonkey’s business strategy, operations and corporate development teams, and Jordan Nolff heads up the company’s monetization and pricing strategy. With all these flags raised, the team moved on to the second step in the process—validating the hypothesis. Validating the Hypothesis.

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Product Market Fit: Finding Your Product’s Place in the Market

ProfitWell

He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. It's the responsibility of product marketing teams to make sure that these great ideas make it to launch and are actually something that customers will find useful—something that potential customers will be willing to pay for.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. You’ve seen SalesForce with a number of significant acquisitions in the last 12 months, as an example. Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?