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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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10 Smart Ways To Build Your Email List 10x Faster

Teamgate

Sure, social media and content marketing are incredibly powerful tools to grow your business too, but comparing them with email marketing would be like comparing apples with oranges. However, to effectively spend your marketing budget, you need to identify channels that generate the best results for you. Absolutely not.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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. We mostly succeeded.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.

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Global Marketing Strategies for SaaS and Software

FastSpring

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Uh, others.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?