SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Pitchbook: VC Returns Are at a 10+ Year Low 10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The #1 Reason CMOs Fail 10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire The $100,000,000 Valuation: The Last Stop Before “IPO or Bust” Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 11 Things That Set The Best Sales Teams Apart From The Rest 7 Things to Do When You’re Struggling Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together with Zapier 2024 Is The Year to Think About Buying Someone.

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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 … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Are We Back to a 6x World? SaaStr 694: Unlock Profitability and Growth – The Key Strategies with Expensify’s COO Anu Muralidharan  4.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Beginning of The End of Customer Success, SDRs, and Support Agents A Low Burn Multiple is Great. SaaStr 711: 5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer Kiren Sekar  5.

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Venture Capital Scale AI Customer Success 226

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5 Yes, Your Marketing Site Really Does Matter Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Yes, Your Marketing Site Really Does Matter Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 669: From 2 Weeks of Runway to a $1.5B

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

If I were asked to create a content marketing strategy for a person or a business from scratch, I would craft a strategy with three dimensions: customer segments, customer lifecycle stage and content type. Market places cater to buyers and sellers. The content a startup produces must resonate with these target segments.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The New Normal: 700 Employees at $200,000,000 in ARR ServiceTitan: The First Great SaaS IPO of 2024 (Potentially) at $500,000,000+ ARR Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. AMA Part 1 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin 3.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new SaaStr series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We invest in early-stage startups, so we’ll participate in Seed through Series C rounds, with an emphasis on Series A and B. Check that out here. And how big is your current fund?

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SaaS Payments Management Scale Payment Services 207

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: When The Team Revolts 80% of IPOs Since 2020 Are “Broken” What Are Public SaaS Companies Taken Private At? Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge 2.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. He had a friend help him hire an email marketer to send ticket emails to the events. You can listen to the full podcast here. #1:

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated SaaStr post on signs your CTO may not really be strong enough for your app to stand out in today’s crowded markets. SaaStr 574: 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. Selling Your Startup? SaaStr 672: Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B Rippling CEO Parker Conrad’s Theory of the Compound Startup.

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Startup Retention Software Strategy 159

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Things Not to Say During a VC Pitch. Is Every SaaS Startup Worth Half of What It Was Last Year? Every Venture Backed Startup is Now Competing for Reserves. A great panel on just where marketing at scale in SaaS is today. ?.

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SMB Startup Scaling Churn 214

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

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. There is more capital available to startups than ever before. Startups are staying private longer.

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CTO Hire Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 184

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! He has been working vividly from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So when a startup finally is able to raise a few million dollars, they’re ready to do some marketing. But sometimes, even oftentimes, they want to start with an “agency or two” instead of hiring a real VP of Marketing. Writing up your product strategy. Maybe writing a few mediocre blog posts. You need leads.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: HubSpot and ZoomInfo: “Things Aren’t Getting Any Better … Yet” 5 Interesting Learnings From ZoomInfo at ~$1.3 How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel 2.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race. An AI Strategy that Doesn’t Die in the Hype Cycle You have to think big about your vision. It’s a conundrum.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Dear SaaStr: What does a US-Based SaaS company Need to Know Before Expanding into Europe? The 2 Hour Rule The 6 Must-Have Go-To-Market Models Divvy Used to Its $2.5B Is Your VP Too Hard to Work With?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2023

I think of marketing teams as hedge funds. Marketing teams develop a portfolio of different strategies to acquire leads. Some days, content marketing works. Other days when content strategies struggle, a witty paid ad campaign entices some clicks & form fills. One day, a post hit the front page of Hacker News.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2021

Q: What are the best marketing techniques for an early stage SaaS startup? But in general, most startups find that at best 1–2 channels really work for them. It could be content marketing. They will market for you for free — just slowly. They will market for you for free — just slowly. Do customer dinnners.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 11, 2024

Think nonprofits and Silicon Valley startups have nothing in common? I started my career working in a nonprofit setting, and now I’m a fractional marketing director for nonprofits.   One key difference between nonprofits and startups comes into play when launching a marketing initiative. Think again.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Is the Employer-Employee Social Contract in Tech … Now Broken? Your Marketing Site Really Should Be Even Better Than Your Product Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need To Sell In Each Venture Round?

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Generative AI SMB Education AI 175

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) We love that this blog focuses on helping hard working teams be successful by delivering great advice and strategies from sales development leaders, social innovators, and even neuro-linguistic programming specialists! Sales strategy. Sales Hacker.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Startups only have a limited amount of resources with an unlimited amount of experiments they can try. and it’s general enough to help any startup think through growth problems and bottlenecks. That’s Weights & Balances’ North Star in this market. You want blog posts that are interactive and valuable to people.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

Is a good product enough to win in the market today? In a world where traditional marketing is losing its edge and products are struggling to stand out, a thriving community is your biggest asset. However, building and nurturing a community takes time – relationships cannot be an afterthought.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you’re looking for the top SaaS blogs and influencers you’ve come to the right place. We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. He tweets at lot and also writes at Intercom’s blog.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2023

How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel #3. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad’s Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software #5. Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B Exit with Divvy’s Former CRO, Sterling Snow #7.Scaling

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re part of a startup ready to enter the market or working at an established business ready to launch a new product, it’s critical to understand how to approach your target audience. But simply sending out a few press releases isn’t enough –– you need a strategy to reach customers and prospects. Get your tickets.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Photo by Rawpixel on Unsplash We all know the importance of marketing for every business, but it’s even more crucial for startups especially if it’s related to the home improvement industry which is growing tremendously. Email marketing- best to increase conversion rates! Start your own blog!

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 93% of You Say Competitors Lie To Close Deals. Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

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Startup Pricing Revenue SaaS 189

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you’re looking for the top SaaS blogs and influencers you’ve come to the right place. We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. He tweets at lot and also writes at Intercom’s blog.

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Venture Capital SaaS Social Media Entrepreneurship 52

User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022? We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. What is a SaaS blog?

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2022

So how can you break into the market successfully? You need to have product skills to build a product, you need to have marketing skills to get people to sign up for your product, you need a sales team…those skills you don’t learn at school. Investors, the Enterprise Space, and Sales Strategy. 60-Second SaaStr Takeaways .

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Gartner: Software Spend Will Still Grow by $100 Billion in 2023. Most Likely, It’s Not The Market. 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg. The Ultimate Guide for Hiring a Great VP of Sale s. A SaaStr Classic.

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