Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. Market Characteristics ?? Team ???????????

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

There’s a huge surge in the content marketing sphere , supplemented by social media madness and competition for eye-catching, compelling ad space. But since marketers today have nearly all the same tools at their disposal, there’s an issue here. Is content marketing dead? Does content marketing actually work?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today?

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

During that time, I learned how to code, what it means to create a website, and what it means to sign up businesses and sell to customers. It’s more of a lifestyle business, so it’s a pretty crowded market. I was able to get it out to market on my own, and while I was building it, I was selling to the hotels.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few. As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. So those are things to think about.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. So we didn’t have product market fit for that. And that’s where we ultimately decided that we shut down the kind of direct to consumer business and just focused on infrastructure. I don’t know really how to build pretty things.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Public markets are very, very different. Vlad : No that’s great. We did not.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Bernadette Nixon: And so there are different things we need to do to bring to the table in crossing that chasm for our market. But as we look at our market, it’s not all created equal. I think for anybody in the SaaS business, it’s obvious, but it’s adoption, adoption, adoption. Bernadette Nixon: Sure.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. focused, some people are marketing?focused.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: So, even within some of our clients, they’re thinking about what their employees want in any given market. And they’re moving forward with really a significant lease because they get to save so much money because rents have stabilized and there are so many subleases on the market.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. Sam Jacobs: Oh my.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walk us through the basic business model. Brandon Meyers: There’s kind of an evolution of our business, and maybe I can take you guys through that as well. Obviously COVID has really caused some constraints in travel, and so that requires us to kind of expand the addressable market that we’re approaching.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. But we do know how online businesses work. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. We didn’t just phase it away, we didn’t try to sell it, we just shut it down. We’re going to change things.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s actually a lot of this consumer internet know-how that’s important in getting a product to mass market. It’s mostly going to the large model providers right now, but we want to let as much of that as possible go off to these independent creators. You’ve got to think about taxes.

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