SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

” Is it something beyond just “we want bigger deal sizes to make our unit economics work” or do they feel they have a strong product market fit and can actually command those prices. I encourage startups to treat it like a new product/company and test that market with an open mind.

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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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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. The pricing for SaaS is much more complicated.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Rebar is at the bottom of the steel market, and since it was a low-margin product, integrated steel companies were happy to lop it off the bottom of their product line and leave the mini mills to compete with one another. They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. But mini mills didn’t stop there.

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