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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was a software developer, a product person. You have to be a little more measured, but what I always think about is a company usually starts up from a product. You have a product idea and, “Wow. I actually drive revenue from headcount, but I make sure I have enough stocked away. Peter : No, no.

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How Stack Overflow Harnesses the Power of Flexible Leadership

OpenView Labs

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. Most software companies start with a product obsession. The early years are spent going deep on the product, the customer, and finding product market fit.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

S Curves At HubSpot we often discussed S Curves - the idea behind them is that all products, markets and business models follow a predictable cycle of growth, maturity and decline (the pattern often looks like an “S”). Jobs to be Done Theory The Jobs to be Done Theory was developed by Clay Christiensen of Harvard Business School.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

To be honest, I wasn’t enormously enthusiastic about this—I’m not techy, so working for a software company wasn’t particularly appealing to me. But Buildium had found product market fit , and although I didn’t know it yet, I was stumbling into a great situation. And working in the property management industry?

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

Point Nine Land

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. This is the function in the organization that is really going to amplify the product messaging in your company, and the other way around.