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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

SaaStr

” The SaaS Market Has Turned a Corner According to Brian, who sees the market through multiple lenses as HubSpot’s Chairman and through his role at Sequoia Growth and Propeller VC, the SaaS downturn that dominated 2022-2023 ended recently. “It felt like we came out of the recession in Q3 of 2024,” Brian noted.

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Don’t Hide in Zero Cost Marketing

SaaStr

So as growth decelerated rapidly for many in SaaS in 2022-2023, one of the first things cut was marketing. Cut marketing, you’re often cutting future growth. If you cut your marketing budget too far, and now pipeline looks, well … light … that’s on you. And second, why is PLG a marketing strategy?

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Is the Software Market in Trouble?

Tom Tunguz

Last week, public software markets suffered significant compression. The overall market has ballooned. Looking at the changes in software revenue, we see that the market is on a straight line to surge past $100b. At a 6x revenue multiple, that’s $600b in market cap. These large drops aren’t unprecedented.

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The State of SaaS Go-to-Market with Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz

SaaStr

Tomasz Tunguz , General Partner at Theory Ventures, shares nine observations from a Go-To-Market survey Theory Ventures did with hundreds of startups, 68% of them early-stage, well-funded, mostly mid-market ACV, and 25% remote. This creates a much harder capital markets environment. Why is the mid-market harder?

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience.

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Dear SaaStr: Once You Hit Product-Market Fit, What Should You Do To Take The Market?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Once you find product market fit in SaaS, what should your next steps be to take the market? Hire a VP of Demand Gen / Marketing. More on the math and why here: I Hired My VP of Marketing at $20k MRR. But too often, there is no senior marketer by $1m, $2m, sometimes even $4m-$5m in ARR.

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The Dislocation Between Public & Private Web3 Markets

Tom Tunguz

Year-to-date, the correlation of the public & private web3 markets has been weak, around 0.2, With Bitcoin in particular, the correlation should begin to dissociate because most of the fund flows will be public market investors. which means they move independently of each other.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Key Learning Objectives: Understand the impact of vertical operating systems on SaaS businesses 🌐 Explore why embedded finance is a crucial component for business growth 🚀 Assess the current market landscape to inform strategic decisions 📊 Register today to save your seat!

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Data-Driven Marketing 101

This eBook highlights how data-driven strategies empower marketing campaigns through personalization tactics. Here’s what’s covered: How data-driven marketing drives the customer experience. Understanding marketing strategy & performance. The most challenging obstacles to data-driven marketing success.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack.

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Marketing Ops: The New Revenue Hero

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers.

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The Ultimate Marketing Efficiency Checklist

When times are tough and marketers are asked to do more with the same (or less), we have to make tough choices. Here are 7 creative ways marketers can work smarter (not harder) - with the resources you already have! However, you might be able to squeeze more value from the tools and processes you’re already using.

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Best Practices for Marketing Database Cleanse

Finding a vendor to cleanse and optimize your marketing database can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for. ZoomInfo has produced this eBook to help marketing leaders understand best practices around cost and value when it comes to choosing a B2B contact data provider. This buyer’s guide will cover: Buying Considerations.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The bad news?