OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. They invest in a frictionless customer onboarding experience and high quality support so that new users get hooked on the platform. They only pay when they’ve seen results.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. It’s important to find your niche. They brought 140,000 employees to the platform.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

After a brilliant run up to 2022, SaaS valuations got hammered in the public markets lately. After a brilliant run up to 2022, SaaS valuations got hammered in the public markets lately. In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. Source: [link].

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. So now, you’ll be able to go upstairs and you’ll hear the honest stories, right, of how a marketing leader, the CMO, works with the CCO. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend. Maria : Yeah.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

292: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue driving machine. Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As a founder, you can use this 84 cents to pay salaries, office rent, dividends, or invest in R&D. In other words, if customers are purchasing the product only because of price, either you’re in a commodity market or your feature set lacks competitiveness. Creating a marketplace does just that. Not always.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. Short on time? It’s a little bit of a different life.

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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. Because it depends highly on the product, on the market, what the founders want to do with the company, and on the different types of markets here. Customer acquisition.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

This so-called “ pajama time ” has become an awful reality for every physician stuck using a well-intentioned but poorly-performing EMR system. I definitely recommend reading reviews from actual customers about the kind of service they receive during and after implementation. And it’s not just doctors who are affected by this.

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Systems Review Healthcare Software Review Marketplace as a Service 143

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Episode 229: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue-driving machine. How does this change if you are creating vs in an existing market? What does good look like when it comes to pipeline coverage? It’s all about customer obsession!

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review 153

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” It is vital for mapping out values: what value to offer in the market, how it’s priced, and how it’s paid for by your customers. If only that statement were as true as it seemed.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Invest in your development internally and externally. After spending a couple of years in a sales role, that knowledge will assist you throughout your life in business and elsewhere.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

I think in general the idea is that if you use a thing every day, or even multiple times a day, then it’s potentially ROI positive for you to invest in the best possible version of it. Google Drive might’ve done an awful lot to kill the file because they have a file system. Even services. It’s all Google Maps.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10. com, he led marketing at HubSpot, where he pulled off an audacious marketing campaign that earned the company $64 million on a $6,000 budget. Can you tell us how you got your start in marketing? Ryan joined G2.com

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Education Sales Hiring Software Review Sales Recruiting 123

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. This often upturns established industries and overthrows existing market leaders. They are usually underrated at first, and tend to be seen as “low-class.”

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