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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Toughest Skill to Learn to Scale in B2B?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Toughest Skill to Learn to Scale in B2B? You need to learn to become a parallel recruiter. To constantly, painfully, boring-ly be recruiting the next level of management and managers all the time. Doing 30+ interviews a month minimum. In SaaS, you need more VPs earlier. By $2m in ARR, you need a VP of Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product and Engineering (if you can afford them all).

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Welcome, Bryan and Philip!

Tom Tunguz

We’re excited to announce our Head of AI, Bryan Bischof , and our first entrepreneur in residence, Philip Zelitchenko. A practicing professor of data science at Rutgers and a Math PhD, Bryan has spent the past two decades building AI and data science practices across thought-leading startups, including Hex, Weights & Biases, Stitch Fix, Blue Bottle Coffee and many others.

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Your App Is Live—Now What? A Guide to Mobile User Acquisition

User Pilot

Finally, your SaaS mobile app is live! But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. I say this because, despite actively supporting the product-led growth model, the mobile app market is still ridiculously competitive. Not only are there over 2 million apps in the Google Play Store , but also about 13% of business apps succeed (even less for consumer apps).

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Cold Calling Playbook Tips: 10 Proven Tactics for Sales Leaders and Reps

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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14 Important Mobile App Metrics to Track (+ Benchmarks)

User Pilot

Creating a solid app is only half the battle won. Without measuring and aggressively improving the right mobile app metrics, youll struggle to stay afloat. The competition is stiff. Most apps experience 89.3%-98.7% churn within 30 days, and in-app purchase conversion rates are often below 5% for the small number of users who remain. How do you even survive considering these numbers?

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6 Reasons to Choose Userpilot for Mobile Onboarding

User Pilot

A great user onboarding experience shouldnt stop at your web app. Your mobile users need just as much support and probably have even less patience to figure things out on their own. With Userpilots mobile onboarding , you can create native-feeling in-app experiences that are quick to launch and dont need developer handoffs. In this guide, well explore how it works, what sets it apart, and why it could be the right fit for your onboarding strategy.

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HubSpot’s Journey to The First $2 Billion in ARR: How Co-Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan Scaled An SMB SaaS Giant

SaaStr

Co-founders Dharmesh Shah (CTO) and Brian Halligan (Chairperson) shared at SaaStr Annual the unfiltered truth on building an SMB powerhouse, pivoting to product-led growth, and why the “M” segment is SaaS gold. At SaaStr, we’re obsessed with knowing how the best SaaS companies scale from zero to IPO and beyond. At SaaStr Annual, HubSpot founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan shared some incredible insights on their journey from scrappy startup to a $2B+ run rate behemoth.

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How to Send Push Notifications: A Step-By-Step Tutorial (+Use Cases & Tips)

User Pilot

If youre managing a mobile product , I probably dont have to tell you that it is a must to learn how to send push notifications at the right time, with the right message, and to the right users. So from my experience as a product manager, Ill not only walk you through the entire process of sending mobile push notifications but also the most important practices and use cases to avoid spamming your app users.

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Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: Wiz’s CRO; Procore’s CRO on AI in Vertical SaaS; and Selling Your Start-Up With Founder Collective

SaaStr

Top Posts: #1. You Are Probably Doing Email All Wrong #2. Could Block Be the Death of the AI SDR? #3. Redpoint: 31% of All VC Money Last Year Went Into Just 20 Deals #4. Dear SaaStr: What Quotas Should My VP of Customer Success and VP of Product Have? #5. 34% of All Startup Acquisitions Are By Other Start-Ups. A New Record. Top Pods: #1. SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wizs $0 to The First $100M ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones #2.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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From Downloads to Loyalty: How to Create a Winning Mobile App Engagement Strategy

User Pilot

Did you know? According to a 2024 analysis , on average, over 95% of users who download a new mobile Android app abandon it within the first 30 days. This stark statistic underscores a simple truth: a solid mobile app engagement strategy is essential for your app’s success. Put simply, app downloads are great but insufficient. In today’s congested app marketplace, the battle is won through sustained engagement.

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App User Retention is Declining? 13+ Long Term Strategies & Quick Wins

User Pilot

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. Things seem great initially, but soon enough, you see your analytics dashboard showing a constant decline. Many product teams know this feeling: mobile user retention is dropping, even after big updates and splashy feature releases. Ive seen various online forum discussions where people often share short-term fixes like heavy marketing or minor feature tweaks, hoping to retain more users.

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Pendo Mobile: Overview, Pricing + Better Alternative

User Pilot

The Pendo Mobile feature is good at what it intends to do: improve the mobile app experience. But is it really worth it for product management? While Pendo is known for its top-notch product analytics and in-app guidance features, the mobile offering often receives mixed feedback, especially regarding pricing, implementation complexity, and feature limitations.

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