Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. I think it’s a good business model.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Product-market fit has been really important. If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. People make the difference.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 25, 2022

If you can nail it, you’ll be on the path to a very strong business model. Over the past year, I’ve signed up for 50+ self-serve SaaS products. 1 – Your product is too confusing without sales or success helping out. Loop in your Product Marketer if you have one. We’ve all been there.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2020

Prior to Workplace, Christine was Head of America’s for Facebook’s Audience Network and before that spent 5 years as a Group Director across multiple different sales and account teams within Facebook’s mid-market channel. Christine Trodella: We’re very different businesses. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business. Before seeing good success in the company.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2018

The business case for sales development is built on flawless logic and verified by market data. The more time your closers spend taking moonshots, the less sales they actually make. Smart business organizations have long experienced and embraced this principle. What is Sales Development?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%. I like the idea of being long-term greedy, but short-term humble.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because if we flip this mindset, we look at an undeniably successful business model, with retailers actually asking customers to pay them for loyalty. Think Costco —a membership-based retail company whose model has caught on with companies like Lululemon , GameStop , and master in the space: Amazon Prime. Email Address Play.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. You go over and test it at scale with small businesses. Missed the session? Andrew Filev.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Craig : Putting the management team together was really around stages of the company. At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Build the product. Get it into the market. Start getting some feedback.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Number three is not understanding their business model. This is extremely common.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Today, Zuora's Amy Konary creates a world in which subscribers are at the core, because she knows success is no longer measured simply by products sold. Plus, Recurly raises dough, Medium talks product marketing, and Beyond Pricing helps the common folk make a buck. Or channeling market insights back to impact product roadmap.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Influence customer future lifetime value through high product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall customer health. Understand the customers’ business models and industries to best position adaptive insights to support their business goals. Motivate your team to create opportunities to upsell value-added services.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

And working in the property management industry? But Buildium had found product market fit , and although I didn’t know it yet, I was stumbling into a great situation. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. You read that right—two!

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

How he thinks about product-market fit. We’re talking hundreds of users saying they didn’t get their dresses on time, which is the exact opposite of RTR’s core business model and company promise. In this segment, he advises we avoid the traditional sales model in our voyage to greatness.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And you can say Tradeshift started with enterprise, but I also think I had a little bit of scar tissue from that because selling into enterprise as an early stage company, it is just tough because it’s hard to get your product market fit. How do you structure the sales team given the segment being targeted?

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Working with established partners in existing markets, you don’t need new offices, hires, or associated marketing and sales spends.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. If you didn’t analyze its business model, you would think that intuitively. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. This business is special. How did you take away from the business and actually spend time recruiting? It was developers finding our service and trying it out, dropping our APIs into their code and then putting your credit card down.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Their approach: “First we sell it, then the product team has to quickly build it.”

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Meaningful inbound leads, even at this early stage, are often a sign that the market is hungry for the product offering.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Their approach: “First we sell it, then the product team has to quickly build it.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Then, lots of other functions like product management and engineering, which can sit close to those disciplines. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, customer support, recruiting, finance, HR, I can keep going. Engineering talks to sales, and support, and recruiting and analytics.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s why companies need to do a better job of articulating the value their product provides for prospects – instead of just recapping their product’s function. Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. Every region in the world has very different business models. It’s not one size fits all.

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