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That’s a nice little $1-2M SaaS company you have here. Call me to discuss if it will scale!

The Angel VC

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. Ten years ago, there was nobody who SaaS founders could ask in order to learn how to do, for example, inbound marketing, low-touch sales or customer success.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Unlocking a new business model.

Scale 151
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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. I highlight six different types of product expansion, in increasing levels of difficulty based on these vectors. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

Payments 113
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Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball’s Formula for Sustained Growth and Resilience

SaaStr

To answer this question, focus on how much you really need to get to that stage where you have product market fit. 1M-$10M — Building, Innovation, and Customers Now, it’s time for the next stage of sustainable growth in SaaS, typically B and C at product-market fit and getting early customers.

Scale 179
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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. 10% is a problem.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

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.

Scale 71
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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

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.

Scale 52