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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. We’d like to see your software. And I replied back and said, well, we don’t really have software yet. That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. A marketing concept where a business offers several related products or services and sells them as one package solution, often at a reduced price. Cross-sell.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. His comment to us was that the software is just too expensive, too inaccessible, too hard to use and so on,” recalled Jack. Again, this was 2007. At the time, Jack and Rian were well-positioned to build this product.

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SaaStr Podcast #390 with Outgrow Co-founder Randy Rayess

SaaStr

Prior to founding Outgrow, Randy co-founded VenturePact, an invite-only marketplace that connects companies with trusted software development firms. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Randy. How do you think about services revenue today driving Outgrow? Harry Stebbings. Randy Rayess.

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

Point Nine Land

In SaaS vs. marketplaces? As interviewing 100 applicants can be quite draining, I recommend the following process: 1. A quick HR interview 2. Invite the candidate to a face-to-face or a Zoom interview. Culture fit interview. How are you coming up with the best solutions? How do you organize your work?