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

SaaStr

Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be. 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. You’ll need more than 5–10 engineers to go big.

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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. billion valuation for its recent $250 million Series E round.

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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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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

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. What is product led growth marketing. Long sales cycles and low revenue per employee.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

What isn’t likely to be very different is that recurring revenue … recurs. Facebook is an ads revenue driven business and this is a very different business model, being a SaaS company within Facebook. In terms of metrics, how do you determine success and product market fit itself within an organization?

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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. How do I grow revenue?

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

Point Nine Land

Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. We grew from less than a million to several tens of millions of ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) during that time. Most of the time in Saas, it is going to be ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) but it can be anything.