OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Product led growth (PLG) is something most people consider the exclusive territory of the latest batch of SaaS startups. While it’s true that a product-led approach comes naturally to many of these organizations, PLG can also offer more traditional companies a very effective way to innovate and grow. They just have to be willing to give it a try. I have spent most of my career helping to build and grow companies that exist in the SaaS, cloud-based, PLG space.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. These are the real-world lessons learned from founding a SaaS company from ground zero to growing it all the way to acquisition as well as case studies from other SaaS companies who have both succeeded and failed.

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For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~424 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey! Thank you also to David Spitz (@dspitz) and the team at KBCM Technology.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? At Mapistry, moving upmarket is exactly what CEO, Allie Janoch, set out to do two years ago and in this talk, she and Lauren Alexander, Mapistry’s VP of Marketing and Demand Generation, will share the playbook they have developed for generating warm leads in a market of buyers unused to purchasing software.

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For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~424 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in … The post 2019 SAAS Private Survey Results- Part 1 appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Groove HQ

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Josh Kohlbach developed a unique customer experience strategy during his time working as a marketing consultant for small businesses. Business was good, and demand was strong. So strong, he soon hired two developers to help him keep up with the work. The problem was: the business was taking over his life. “I think we ran […]. The post Customer Experience Strategy: How This Startup Used Customer Reviews to Gain Traction appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Nimble - Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Choosing your next hosting provider is a big deal because digital marketing is critical to your success. If your business crashes and burns online, you’re in big trouble. Recently, our business got itself into a situation where we had to switch hosting providers, which was actually the inspiration for this article. We quickly realized that […].

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Your organization's sales leader was likely hired to reach ambitious sales goals, motivate a hungry sales team and unlock new markets. Unfortunately, a great salesperson can sell themselves to a CEO as a great sales leader even when they really aren’t cut out for that job (ie. Michael Scott).

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Zuora

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article was originally published in Australian Financial Review. Peter O’Connell wants you to think of your electricity bill […]. The post The Netflix effect: how to turn anything into a subscription appeared first on Zuora.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Today, Wistia reminds us of the most important aspect to brand affinity: connection. Pipedrive x Zoho Desk launch an integration, plus Drift’s David Cancel and HubSpot’s Katie Burke get real on workplace culture. Your top subscription news. The key to creating brand affinity: connection. Abigail Keeso Hopkins , Co-Founder of That Clean Life personalized nutrition software, started a tweet storm after she caught up with the replay of Wistia’s Change the Channel, re-bringing to light this idea of

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article originally appeared on HBR.org. From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products.

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Zuora

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Zuora Subscription Economy® Excellence (SEE) Awards recognize our customer companies that are truly visionaries in the Subscription Economy. At […]. The post EMEA Subscribed 2019 SEE Awards appeared first on Zuora.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The other day I was recording a podcast episode with my co-host Eric Siu and he wanted to discuss something in particular. He wanted to talk about how I got to 62,000 Instagram followers in a very short period of time and without spending any money on ads or marketing. Eric is a great marketer as well, and when it comes to social media, he spends much more time than me on it and he even has people at his ad agency dedicated to helping him grow his personal brand online.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Bryan Caplin, CRO of Andela. Bryan recently left Axiom as GM and Head of North American Sales and Marketing of Axiom to join Andela as CRO. He talks us through that transition–knowing when was the right time to leave, his criteria for evaluating a new company, and what he did in the first 30, 60, 90 days as a new executive.

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