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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready. Marketing is also an art and science. WIth the best people, you get ahead of changes in the markets. She can be your CTO forever. It’s the people.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. After that, they released instruction following models, which were the first Enterprise-ready models. The reality was product market fit wasn’t quite there yet. How did they get here?

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Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti

Tom Tunguz

On Wednesday, December 16th at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti , the CMO of Confluent, which was founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. What is the relationship between Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product?

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Totango Welcomes Seasoned Industry Leaders to Executive Team

Totango

Last year, we experienced record business growth—we more than doubled our revenue and customer base, tripled our engineering and support staff, introduced Totango Spark , a next generation flagship customer success solution, and announced a go-to-market partnership with SAP among many other exciting milestones.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

A big piece of that and a partnership I hadn’t had on the go-to-market side was I finally had a partner who was really going to say: we do these 4 things incredibly well, and if you are not one of these 4 things, it’s actually revenue that we’re going to say no to. We had zoomed way out.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

Product led growth marketing is like the business equivalent of really great storytelling. That’s why we wouldn’t dare tell you what product-led growth marketing is or how to do it. Instead, we’re going to show you how to drive it in your role as head of growth or product marketer. You’re a marketer.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

Are you done with product management? You woke up one day thinking that you would dream to solve this big problem for this big, fast growing market and that you were the right person to do that. It wouldn’t make sense if you stop being in the product team from one day to another. Product Marketing.