The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

In it he argues that an eCommerce business with $10 to $20 million in revenues is not that hard to build and also not very valuable. So if you start an online shop, offer products at a loss, get listed on some of the biggest comparison shopping sites and do some affiliate marketing, you can easily get to tens of millions in revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Product has moved.

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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. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To power this shift, we need infrastructure, which supports the easy establishment and distribution of the new internet-enabled products and services. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To power this shift, we need infrastructure, which supports the easy establishment and distribution of the new internet-enabled products and services. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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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? The other dimension you need to think about is the product complexity. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

As an important aside, it’s worth noting that product led growth (PLG) companies have a shorter CAC payback than companies with a traditional sales & marketing driven go-to-market model. If you can get people talking about your product, you won’t have to spend as much on expensive marketing campaigns.

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