SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. I realized that I was missing something fundamental in that first company that was deep product/market fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. So we decided not to build everything ourselves but to make sure that people can build and extend our product and also we’re not just thinking about a developer platform. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

You can also select a freelancer profile from these marketplaces. Whether it’s recruiting top talent, determining compensation to align with company goals, or improving employee retention, an HR consultant can streamline everything using their leadership and communication skills. IT Consultants.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users. The platform flywheel, the basics of it are you have a product that suddenly has market fit, you have customers who are joining that product.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the Reforge Product Strategy course, we teach that there are four different types of product work : Feature development: adding new things to the product that improve value proposition e.g. Uber’s Split Fare. Product/market fit expansion: adding totally new products that create new value propositions e.g. Uber Eats.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Sometimes that’s a market insight that takes competitors five years to understand. Selling to the mid-market is hard. Sometimes that’s defensible distribution channels.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2021

Work collaboratively across departments to ensure customers are aware of all LeagueApps programs and services beyond the core platform. Clearly communicate customer feedback and trends to key stakeholders in Product, Marketing and Tech. Manage customer relationships and become the trusted advisor for the customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2019

I’m excited to be joined today by Intercom’s own Jonathon Colman, a senior designer who came to us by way of the Nature Conservancy, REI and five and a half years at Facebook, where he most recently worked as a UX Content Strategy Lead for Marketplace. And content design definitely spends time focusing on those words, on that service.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Second, product market fit. Product market fit matters more than ever and technology is what’s going to get us out of this, the understanding of data and getting the insights and how fast we move in tech. And really our approach to our customers and the market had to pivot immediately. And so we built.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. Loving our podcast content?

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. SaaS leaders need to believe and keep the product in mind to guide customers properly. The Customer Development model is not a replacement for the Product Development model, but rather a companion to it. Customer Discovery.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Treat it like a checklist: First, have you achieved some level of product-market fit? Reseller Programs.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Ryan Bonnici: Now if you’re a more consumer focused org then typically marketing will run all of that, right?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. Instead of taking a reckless approach, it’s critical to make sure you have some key building blocks in place before going to market. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. And in an increasing number of cases, marketers as well. It was a super exciting era.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

She also founded #GirlsClub , which is dedicated to changing the face of sales leadership by helping more women gain the skills and experience needed to apply. During her 18-year sales career, she’s held sales leadership positions at Andreessen Horowitz, VMware, Coverity, Meraki, CORAID, and Inktomi.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Corrective actions can address any gaps.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. We were growing, but there was still a lot of friction in the product. Why don’t we take Atlanta, a smaller market and just test it there?

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. The best companies are refining their product to meet customers where they are today. The marketplace is flooded with people. Tools like BurnRate.io

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Corrective actions can address any gaps.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 29, 2021

NexHealth is a patient experience management platform that helps doctors get more appointments, retain patients, and offer a better service by digitizing everything from booking and reminders to forms and billing. And congrats to Josh for doubling-down on your investment in the company. We led NexHealth’s seed round less than two years ago.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? What’s not to like?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Vijay Gill is the head of engineering at DataBricks and brings engineering leadership experience from Google, Microsoft, AOL, and Salesforce. Weiping leads the engineering team as the top software architect for Salesforce Service Einstein, the company’s customer service AI platform. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 12, 2021

Develop your objective or call to action, work with your product marketing team, and then A/B test your talk tracks at different levels. Everyone speaking to customers needs to lean in because, “we’re naturally resistant to change,” reminds Derek Jankowski , Creator at Next Level Sales Leadership Project. “So

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. In 2015 Randy had kept pace with the growth in the market. Competitors were increasing their market share and Randy was falling behind.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Note: For the purposes of this specific post, the tactics presented are targeted to established SaaS companies that have already verified product/market fit and experienced initial traction. If your SaaS startup isn’t there yet, you should read Finding Product/Market Fit: When To Stand Firm & When To Pivot first.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Early stage, there’s going to be demand risk and product market fit risk, but later the risk is about the ability to scale. How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team? Karen Page: How does this leadership team gel? Is it in that pre product market fit phase? I see that.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. So we never should have even been a, we’re in multi sided marketplace. So we have this enormous market. And the reality is we’re in a service business.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 5, 2021

In recent years, Product Operations roles have evolved to include: Operations, Technical Ownership, Product Strategy, Project Management, Customer Success , and Professional Services. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. Understanding the Need for Product Operations. contact-form-7].

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit. But we think of it as being sort of CO conspirators with the founders pre-product market fit.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Ajit Ghuman , Head of Product Marketing at Narvar and author of Price To Scale. If you missed episode 175, check it out here: Protecting Migrant Children: International Social Service. The role of product marketing, perfectly summarized. powered by Sounder.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C? In SaaS vs. marketplaces? 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.

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