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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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What is Marketing Research? Examples and Best Practices

User Pilot

Effective market research combines both qualitative methods, which explore consumer motivations, and quantitative methods, which provide measurable statistics, to create comprehensive insights that guide business strategy and decision-making.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead.

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Product Drive 2023 – How to Build Products Users Love

User Pilot

Product marketing speaker. AI and product management The use of AI in product management isn’t new; small and large companies have been doing it for years. How to become an outcome-based leader instead of one that sticks to a one-dimensional approach to product development. Product marketing.

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. B2B is in a similar bind — a conservative spending approach and a tougher financing environment will affect SaaS spending as well, meaning that we might see things get worse before they get better.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. on just how to bucket the messaging from our product marketing perspective. Before seeing good success in the company.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. It starts with self service.