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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. That’s how we got started in building our ecosystem. Ceci Stallsmith : Cool. I actually got to build Box’s early ecosystem with Niall, so there’s some extra fun stories there that we might go into.

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The 10 Forms of SaaS Capital: From Inception to Exit

Baremetrics

Not so much in the Valley, but across the rest of the country, especially if you’re a SaaS business, not the case for B2C. A product already in market that’s generating revenue, a business model you are proving out with metrics, a thoroughly thought through and rational capital plan and some thoughts around potential exits.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? I think reverse freemium addresses some of the pros and cons for both types of models by themselves. In my past life as a growth marketer, we did a lot of testing. I tested freemium versus free trial.

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