SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I think the annual planning process that we actually ended up running was pretty similar to every other one we had run, but it was a couple months after we had just really deeply understood what it was people were using Segment for today and what they wanted to be able to rely on it for at a bigger, more enterprise-ready scale.

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User Pilot

JUNE 10, 2019

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. Your market is mature, saturated, crowded and overserved.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. Why would you come up with a 24 months roadmap when you just have funding for another 6 months and still didn’t figure out your product-market fit? Product Marketing.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2020

What have been the biggest benefits of scaling a SaaS company within a non-SaaS company? What are the biggest challenges or misalignments of scaling Workplace within Facebook? What have been some of the core and early mistakes the team made in their strategy to build out the Workplace sales and marketing machine?

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