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4 Lessons For SaaS Startups From Optimizely's Early Days

Tom Tunguz

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Pete was a Google Associate Product Manager for AdSense and launched Google App Engine. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

The decision to invest is based on the founding team’s potential and their product’s potential to scale and become a significant market player. The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market.

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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey. Your top subscription news. Product marketers: move west. The Product Marketing Alliance dropped the Product Marketing Salary Survey. On today’s episode, we’re calculating the ROI of your CSM.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

At what scale does that become impossible? In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * You go through your Buzzfeed article of 10 mistakes new entrepreneurs make, we can walk down that list and check them off one by one like yep, we did that.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

Casey Winters is a growth and SaaS marketing expert who has transformed how startups grow and scale into large companies. Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. He talks about SaaS products, marketing, and sales.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. You take, for example, the iPhone. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.