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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

To IPO, companies need to triple their market share in their core market and have a churn rate of less than 3-4% per month. The market is flooded with capital, leading to higher valuations and unrealistic expectations. He was surprised that both Sales Loft and Outreach were able to survive and win significant market share.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. So selling, marketing and supporting them should be different too. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Anyone who says the developer market is not strong is behind the times.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? We do our marketing… on the internet.”) I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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I Grew From Zero to $1,000 MRR in 94 Days: Here’s How I Did It

Baremetrics

I read a brilliant tip from Arvid Kahl to start with the audience instead of the idea: As a result of the establishment of my agency Wortspiel and my previous career, it was clear that my audience should be in the marketing sector. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR.

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