Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. The best-performing startups led by technical or product founders also have investors or advisors who guide them through the early days (and often later years) of their journey. Which are you?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. Daphne: I think it comes back to this ability to collect, but even more than collect, generate data at scale. ” We’re able to do data generation on spec.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

With this data, you can adjust your future strategy, in an attempt to capture the same results. The data you can collect is extremely valuable. While this is a great way to engage your audience and send traffic to your website, it’ll only work in your favor if you have a solid plan in place. KISSmetrics.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. Master The SaaS Customer Lifecycle: Acquire, Engage, Retain. Seeking financing from friends and family.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

What I think we saw in a bottoms-up business like Figma where you have a free offering, you have a paid consumer offering, and then the happy path is moving customers to enterprise, what you have is a ton of product data across the domains in which your customers are using Figma in some capacity.

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