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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders β€” and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales β€” is striking β€œproduct-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’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. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Head of Product. Head of Marketing.

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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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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. We see a lot of startups from our portfolio of customers or generally from the ecosystem.

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower. . — Josh Kopelman (@joshk) May 18, 2022. Further Reading.

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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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR β€” February 21, 2020

SaaStr

What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? So if we start today on the hailed and much discussed topic of product market fit, there’s a common assumption that you find product market fit and then just aggressively scale.

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