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10 key lessons SaaStock18 attendees picked up

SaaStock

This gives you four basic types of ideas: Scalable Growth: that’s the ideas you’re currently using as a foundation for your business model, they require a lot of company resources, but they’re tested and provide high ROI. Work on developing your brand. So consumers turn to brands. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I do my own reference calls.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. Tips on Enterprise Pricing.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. I didn’t see the company as this consumer brand long term. It was like, what a crazy business model. It was just being in, I think it was in Copenhagen at the time as where the Money20/20 first started. It was a strategy of hope.

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A Canoo for two

ProfitWell

We know brand awareness is important, but are you going too far? We know the idea of “brand affinity” has been this sort of buzz-worthy, industry-trending topic. getting people to actually like their brands. So they dropped a blog post all about the common problems that marketers face when focused too much on brand affinity.