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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What does this mean for product design and product management? When should companies offer services?

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. Head of Product.

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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. 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.

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The 3 Pillars of Product-Led Businesses

OpenView Labs

This isn’t a one-time process or a get-product-market-fit-quick scheme. It’s an ongoing practice the most successful product led growth companies build into their DNA. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool.

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A Letter From Our CEO: Frontegg’s Funding Round

Frontegg

A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. Fast forward to now, Frontegg is running as the core product infrastructure for dozens of hyper-growing companies. You simply don’t know who will be using your product – you only assume.

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

You Should Double Down on Your Core Product Offering. This is a perfect time to invest in your user base & core product offering because playing to your strengths will pay off. If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. on just how to bucket the messaging from our product marketing perspective. Before seeing good success in the company.