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The Strategic Importance of Competition

Tom Tunguz

When I started in venture capital, one of the questions I learned to ask very early on was competition. A small number of innovators and early adopters might use a minimal feature set product. Founders would often reply that competition validates the opportunity. I’ve since realized I was wrong.

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The Rising Stakes in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. This rivalry causes four major responses: Verticalization - compete with a horizontal player by picking one customer segment and building a product better suited to them.

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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. It supports them with their go-to market strategy, marketing, sales, customer success, and business development. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

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Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks (Pod 644 + Video)

SaaStr

Silicon Valley-based venture capital companies might tell you to build productivity models around hiring salespeople and scaling your organization that way, but it’s not the way. One type of customer may like the path of innovation, while others may be tech-driven, like IT teams and global CIOs. Otherwise, it won’t work.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

Cash was tight and I didn’t know any great VPs of Biz Dev, so between myself and my VPs of Sales, Product and Customer Success, we all jointly managed our key partners. That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. I got this advice and believed it, but didn’t act on it.

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We Haven’t Hit Peak SaaS

Hitenism

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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ChurnZero Named Customer Success Leader in G2 Winter 2020 Report

ChurnZero

Out of 20 solution providers included in G2’s Winter 2020 Momentum Report for Customer Success Software, ChurnZero has received the highest Momentum Score, based on exceptional customer satisfaction and market growth, reinforcing ChurnZero’s position as the pacesetter in the Customer Success industry.