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Mastering the Art and Science of Product-Led Growth With Gainsight

SaaStr

What does it mean to make your product the star in your SaaS growth strategy? It’s imperative to incorporate critical elements in your product-led strategy to ensure its success. Product-Led Growth: The Disruptive GTM Strategy. Every year, millions of new products are created and launched. Key Takeaways.

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8 Things That Change When Your Company is Acquired

SaaStr

There’s been a run of incredible M&A, from Salesforce buying Slack for $27B, to Qualtrics’ $8b acquisition by SAP (and later IPO at $20b+), to Github’s $7.5b Some folks will prefer post-acquisition life. I thought my sales team would leave quickly. My VP of Sales and the team stayed for 2.5

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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Some folks will prefer post-acquisition life. I thought my sales team would leave quickly. My VP of Sales and the team stayed for 2.5 Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. It’s a lot of change. The pressure is off. Not all of it.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

With Aaron Levie, Stewart Butterfield, David Sacks (fresh off Yammer’s acquisition for $1b+, which seemed so high at the time), Leyla Seka from Salesforce, David Ulevitch from OpenDNS (who sold to Cisco just a few months later for $800m, which again seemed enormous at the time), and the list went on. It was awesome.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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GitLab’s Hila Qu on What B2B Companies Can Learn About Growth from B2C

OpenView Labs

In conversation with Blake Bartlett , she walked us through how B2C and B2B growth strategies compare across each phase of the customer journey from acquisition to retention and expansion. At Acorns, my team included user acquisition, CRM marketing, and growth product.” Acquisition. Defining Growth .

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