OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 20, 2016

The volatility in the stock market, the steady erosion of public multiples, and the broad decline of seed, venture and growth investment in Q4 2015 seem to portend a repricing of the startup market. When should a startup raise immediately? When should a startup raise capital later? This is the riskiest option.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. Buffer spent $3.3

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

So far this year, only 42 companies have priced IPO offerings. Many Series B companies are taking the necessary steps to pursue aggressive growth goals because it’s at this stage that a startup often has proven market viability and is poised to scale. Reevaluate your billing and pricing models. billion in 2020 to $55.9

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Trisha Price. Trisha Price: nCino is a little bit different in its background.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Yesterday’s post on distribution partnerships for startups elicited a few comments and questions about other important elements startups should consider when contemplating partnerships. Ideally, a startup should collect data on the performance of a distribution channel before entering into a long-term agreement with a partner.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

Jyoti Bansal : So first thing Dev is, I know you started as an operator running a startup company, you took it public and then you became a VC and then you became an operator again. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. 20 VCs do come to me to invest in the company now.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide? From our experience, the 3rd question is the most difficult to answer, since it’s the least familiar one to startup founders and CEOs.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And so that was what you’re investing in.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 13, 2019

This is a sister post to my recent one, Career Decisions: What to Look For in a Software Startup. That piece is all about what to look for when considering taking a job at a software startup. This piece is kind of the opposite: what to look out for when considering an executive job at a software startup. moving both feet).

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights. We’re not sure.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? They begin by quickly covering common pitfalls in decision-making, then share specific tools not to do and to do, including how to operationalize good decision hygiene into teams. How to Decide”?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. As for pricing, how do you know you’re not leaving value on the table?

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Pricing Amplitude offers three paid plans.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Pricing Amplitude offers three paid plans.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Pricing Amplitude offers three paid plans.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Pricing Amplitude offers three paid plans.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Pricing Amplitude offers three paid plans.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. And now it’s all about keeping that money in the bank and making sure that every investment you make actually pays off.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

By “consultant engineer”, I mean an engineer developing software for a client (which is again different from being an independent contractor). Very often when working as a consultant, you will work on projects billed as either “fixed price” or “time and materials”. Now, in reality, it’s not always this bad. Absence of ownership.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

According to Paysafe , 69 percent of Americans have multiple subscriptions, and 36 percent of those consumers believe they’ll invest in more soon. Plus, since your customers pay the same price each month, a subscription box offers some degree of stability in your revenue stream, which helps you predict your finances more accurately.

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are plenty of articles dedicated to this matter, but none offers a better solution than hiring a team of knowledgeable marketers. Perhaps, you even know when you need to start a PPC campaign and why SEO is the option that is perfect for your developing startup. And by saying that, I mean mostly in combination with SEO.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

* Why does Andy think the seat-based pricing model in SaaS will die? Why is volume-based pricing optimal? How does one instil volume based pricing without disincentivizing usage? What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Missed the session?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior. Pricing: Consider your budget when selecting a session recording and replay tool, as some options can be expensive. Identify Javascript errors, user frustration, usability issues, or poor-performing content.

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