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How to Cut a Path through the Jungle of Regulatory Compliance

Tom Tunguz

Data privacy has become a skill startups must master as they scale. As they grow, startups often collect increasing volumes of data. the implications of these regulations for product, marketing, and compliance. With great power comes great responsibility. how to protect your company and your customers' data.

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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

Sydney pulled someone from Salesloft with a product marketing background who understands operations, running programs, and being strategic. This person has built out a partnership marketing team within the product marketing team. Product marketing and product owners have specific KPIs on adoption that they track.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up. As a startup, it’s hard to know if the timing is right and what to expect.

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Quick and Dirty Product/Market Fit Validation: Can You Hit Your Quota?

Tom Tunguz

How do you validate an idea for a software startup before the product is built? Suppose this founder wasn’t the founder, but the first inside sales hire for the startup. Suppose this founder wasn’t the founder, but the first inside sales hire for the startup. It’s a question without a universal answer.

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How to nail your product market fit and sales pitch with a value proposition diagram

Tom Tunguz

Products aren’t sold in isolation - they exist within ecosystems. Great product market fit and sales pitches hinge on understanding and serving all the members of an ecosystem. Should a product fail to meet the needs of any one member, company success and sales velocity will falter.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Product-market fit has been really important. It was initially compliance focus. That’s when we found product market fit. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical.

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The Indicators of True, Strong Customer Demand for a SaaS Product

Tom Tunguz

Customer pull is an amazing feeling for a startup. In a year or so, early customers will begin to renew their contracts, and these customers increase their spend rewarding the startup with negative net churn. Often these Fortune 2000 companies impose security, compliance and complex decision-making processes.