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SaaStr Enterprise is LIVE! Watch it here

SaaStr

5 Insights for Consumerization of the Enterprise. Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. The Secrets to Vertical Growth: What It Really Takes to Build a $1B+ SaaS Company. Cofounder, CEO.

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4 Key Takeaways from the AI Panel at Saastr 2023

Tom Tunguz

Last week at Saastr 2023, I had the privilege of hosting a panel with Maggie Hott , GTM leader at OpenAI, Sharon Zhou , cofounder & CEO of Lamini, & Jordan Tigani , founder & CEO of MotherDuck talking about the implications of AI for the software industry broadly. Four themes resonated throughout the session.

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Product Power Breakfast #2: Thomas Interviews Dave

Kellblog

Well, we just finished the first episode (“ Dave interviews Thomas “) of our Enterprise SaaS Product Power Breakfast series and wow, was it crazy. A surprise cameo from Dharmesh Shah , cofounder and CTO of HubSpot (who I think Jason pulled up [1]) — thanks for coming!

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. A SaaStr Classic!!

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SaaS marketing guide: differentiate your SaaS marketing strategy

ProfitWell

For SaaS marketing professionals, it can seem like climbing Mount Everest would be more straightforward. But with the complexity of SaaS products comes an unlimited number of marketing possibilities. What is SaaS marketing? SaaS marketing is strategic promotion for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies.

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Free Software and Open Source Business

Andreessen Horowitz

In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of HashiCorp; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; … The post Free Software and Open Source Business appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business.