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Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)

SaaStr

Abhinav Asthana , founder and CEO of Postman , knows that journey very well, having started Postman as a mere side project in 2012, only to launch it as an enterprise platform almost a decade later. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

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Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV (Pod 651 + Video)

SaaStr

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Enterprise will likely have a different problem set vs. an SMB. That’s a mistake.

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Streamline Your Customer Lifecycle: An Innovative Approach To Improving NDR

Valuize Consulting

As a revenue leader, are you empowering and incentivizing all of your customer-facing teams to drive maximum NDR in your organization? Given the importance of net new sales to your company’s longevity and value, your Sales team should be empowered to wholeheartedly focus on acquisition. Evolve Your SaaS Revenue Model For Maximum NDR.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. Very excited to talk to you today about building consumer grade products for the enterprise. Want to see more content like this?

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Investing in Ideogram

Andreessen Horowitz

For example, image generation often is slow and clunky to control, resolution can be poor, and it’s been incredibly difficult to add correct text to the images. They’re innovating on an intuitive product that acts as a printer of imagination to millions of users. The release of the latest Ideogram.ai model (1.0)

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Don’t Confuse Room at the Bottom with Disruption

SaaStr

I told this VC I bet that while they had no true enterprise customers, they had a few nice silos within some large customers. Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. With less capital and a tighter team … you won’t be able to spend as much on marketing.

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Working With a Digital Marketing Agency Vs. Hiring In House

Neil Patel

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.