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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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. A lot of businesses aren’t profitable even at scale. Selling to the mid-market is hard.

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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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SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2021

Lead and scale a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers. 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.

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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

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. But it doesn’t really scale when you’re selling to the masses. Because marketing is the revenue function.

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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

Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer.

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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. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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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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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? Arriving at a company that had found early success epitomizing Paul Graham’s mantra of “ do things that don’t scale ”, her brief was the opposite – to build a sales organisation that would scale.

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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.

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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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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. We always knew that this market opportunity was so large. We looked at the numbers.

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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 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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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box? Early stage, there’s going to be demand risk and product market fit risk, but later the risk is about the ability to scale. The risks at the growth stage are going to be about, how can you scale? Is it in that scale up phase?

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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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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

At least at some small scale. 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. Even if it’s more a marketing game than a technology differentiation. At least for a few quarters.”.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of startups and come to be CRO for one of the fastest scaling, I think it’s eighth fastest scaling of all time in Flexport. So we never should have even been a, we’re in multi sided marketplace. So we have this enormous market. Ben Braverman: Yeah.

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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. What You’ll Learn.

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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

Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C? In SaaS vs. marketplaces? Product Marketing. Intro Hi, my name is Victor.

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