SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. 10% basically means you don’t have any product market fit. Reworking your product. But the market has moved. Product has moved.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 232

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. You need to marry your go-to-market strategy to specific commercial structures that you, as a SaaS company, decide to offer your customers. They were either enterprise, mid-market, or commercial.

Scale 197

Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 197

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. should you be focusing on first?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

When you go public, your company’s performance suddenly has a real-time scoreboard: your stock price. It’s easy to think that high growth can make up for a low stock price, especially for founders at fast-growing late-stage startups that are still burning cash. They’re a disaster.”

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Travel Forecasting Pricing Scale 107

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Usage-based pricing (UBP) , also known as consumption-based pricing, allows customers to pay for products according to how much they use. AWS and other infrastructure providers have been using UBP for nearly a decade. These metrics are an indicator of product-market fit.

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Headcount SaaS Compensation Acquisition 73

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. Marketing…their demand gen motion changes, need different product marketing, etc.

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Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise 68

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. Did a lot of consulting for high tech startups, I really love the startup space. It’s not just pricing, it goes all through the rollout, Harry, of what it’s going to look like as we rollout.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 204

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

In this session, Sandy Carter, AWS Vice President will hone your superpower – not of customer focus, or customer driven, but customer obsessed. I can only sell to other startups that were ready to take on risk and to whom I don’t look any different. You can increase prices, you can sort of try to go off theirs.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review 156

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.

Scale 71

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 71

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 296

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.

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? We’re seeing pockets of strength and then we’re seeing pockets of startups that overnight not only are struggling but might even want to immediately stop their spend, right?

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 183

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We also added support for relationship invoicing, recurring components, cancellations, discounts, differential pricing, and the option to exclude tax from your MRR calculations. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. As always, you can stay updated on what’s new with our product on our blog or in our release notes.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere. How are they doing this?

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Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. It was still a ubiquitous market. We had created an incredible brand with developers, in particular, and created developer love for what we did and the product. We had a great easy-to-use pricing model.

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