SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Happy to be here. It’s just the type of work I was doing.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s easy to connect the dots between mission and product when you consider the social media behemoth’s more than 2 billion worldwide users. But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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. 293: Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Loving our podcast content? Thanks for having me.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the curated posts below. In all seriousness though, that’s kinda what Horizontal SaaS promises (or tries) to be.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. So how did you make your way from the wonderful world of Australia, to become one of the leading CMOs in SaaS today with G2?

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

I was previously the CEO of MySQL, an open source product you may know. And I’m here to talk about SaaS products and how they can be delivered, and how you build a sustainable business for your own SaaS company as you serve customers. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 140

The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. We’re interested in horizontal and vertical SaaS. We’re looking for companies that we think can build a 10x better product and/or drive a paradigm shift in the industry.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Nicole Culver, Director of Product Marketing, SaaS @ Bandwidth. Jen Taylor, SVP, Chief Product Officer @ Cloudflare. Marion Richter, Director of Product Marketing @ LeanIX. Sara Hicks, Vice President of Product Management @ Mailchimp. Justin Reidy, Group Product Lead, Ecosystem @ Loom.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

In the world of SaaS it is common for sustaining growth to be harder than attaining initial growth. That’s what we’re covering in today’s post: 12 actionable ways to reignite your SaaS growth. Even if you haven’t hit a growth ceiling, the following growth tips apply to just about any SaaS company. SaaS Growth Ceiling.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams. Tito gave us a set of templates and a checklist to understand SaaS costs basics, and how to accurately set sales goals and metrics that drive success for your sales team. Josh Braun – Founder of Sales DNA.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company. We sell enterprise SaaS software. We can do the private marketplaces.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

Instead of taking a reckless approach, it’s critical to make sure you have some key building blocks in place before going to market. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says. This clarity puts you on the path to product-market fit.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. Growth rate depicted from traditional B2B sales teams vs. SaaS Sales teams.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Before 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. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. We really need to focus here on the US market.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2021

Mark has been in and around product marketing and sales for over 30 years. So we do a lot of work where brands or retailers come and say, “Hey, we want to get some free product out into the marketplace and have some folks actually build reviews around it.” Sam Jacobs: Hey everybody, it’s Sam Jacobs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karen made her way into the world of SaaS as one of the first employees at Box and then how that led to her transition to the world of investing with B Capital. How did helping Aaron raise the Series B and onwards inform her view of what it takes to raise funding from the best SaaS investors?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Needless to say, in a market filled with cloud-based SaaS solutions, the demand for product operation becomes apparent. Product operation is a key aspect of product management. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. Product Management Vs Product Operations Vs Product Marketing.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Ajit Ghuman , Head of Product Marketing at Narvar and author of Price To Scale. If you missed episode 175, check it out here: Protecting Migrant Children: International Social Service. The role of product marketing, perfectly summarized. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Pendo announced a new offering aimed to help startup companies accelerate product-market fit, and prove that product traction to early stage investors. For major launches across Zendesk’s product offerings, check out www.zendesk.com/startups. SaaS app usage across all companies is up 30%, and spend is up 50%. ~80%

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of the time in Saas, it is going to be ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) but it can be anything. An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C? In SaaS vs. marketplaces? Product Marketing. The article is using the word “growth” a lot.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com , the place to see what others are saying about their experiences with the myriad SaaS options for business. com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10. We’re basically the world’s biggest business marketplace. Ryan joined G2.com Ryan: Sure.

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