SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Also last year, of the 10 fastest growing Internet penetration markets in the world, 8 of them were in Africa. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. For example, banking.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. The event is for anyone responsible for driving growth for their product. Product management and leadership speakers. Product growth speakers.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Before seeing good success in the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. Why do most startups fail?

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

After a brilliant run up to 2022, SaaS valuations got hammered in the public markets lately. After a brilliant run up to 2022, SaaS valuations got hammered in the public markets lately. SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. Source: [link]. — Josh Kopelman (@joshk) May 18, 2022.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s easy to connect the dots between mission and product when you consider the social media behemoth’s more than 2 billion worldwide users. But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. They don’t know how to analyze a market or competition, so they make it up instead learning how to do it. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. All startups are screwed up.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

292: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue driving machine. Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. 3) A career in sales and marketing [3:30]. 6) Flipping the framework from startup to scale-up [8:45]. 9) Sales and marketing alignment [21:35]. What You’ll Learn.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Role of PPC in Marketing Strategies Why Your PPC Ad Needs a Dedicated Landing Page A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Post-Click Strategy. You need to secure space in your market with a relevant keyword while also finding a way to stand out. The Role of PPC in Marketing Strategies. Hop straight to it here :).

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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. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. What counts is that the startup is aiming to solve a big enough problem for a large enough number of potential customers in order to build a big business. What’s important is the right founder/market fit.

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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. This book is the basis for the Lean Startup Movement. The models in the book are useful for both SaaS companies and startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Do you have a pricing page on your site or do you make it up on the fly?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Source From Mice to Whales – 5 Ways to Build a $100 Million SaaS Company by Christoph Janz, Point Nine Capital Your Guide to SaaS Product Metrics by Kyle Poyar, OpenView Partners How do you compare?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? There was a small startup scene. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. When is the right time?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Brittany Bingham, VP of Marketing @ Guru. Sara Hicks, VP of Product, Commerce @ Mailchimp. Devon Rutherford, Managed Services Program Manager & Pre-Sales Manager @ Leaseweb. Devon Rutherford, Managed Services Program Manager & Pre-Sales Manager @ Leaseweb. Mariela Towers, Head of Marketing @ BEE.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Michael Seibel, YC Partner and CEO of YC’s Startup Accelerator @ Y Combinator. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Asawari Samant, Head of Marketing @ Anyscale. Kady Srinivasan, Head of Marketing @ Klaviyo. Jessica Weimer Vice President, Global Revenue Marketing @ Podium.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. New Market Entry.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

We’ve spent a lot of time in the world of marketing lately, and so I wanted to switch it up today, and move to the sales and customer success side. I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. But, time for the show today.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. This is episode four of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

Instacart is valued at nearly $8 billion and since joining, he’s helped to make the company’s services available to more than 80% of U.S. Even with Instacart’s enormous valuation, he continues to see tremendous growth potential for the service, similar to what he saw in Instagram’s early days. Thanks for signing up.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Weiping leads the engineering team as the top software architect for Salesforce Service Einstein, the company’s customer service AI platform. One is, especially at a startup trying to compete against Bay Area offers from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Linkedin, Twitter are, is, is playing to their strengths. Vijay Gill: Oh boy.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 22, 2023

For startups, this is often the story of why your founder was driven to start the business, or how you are differentiated from your competitors in the marketplace. This data may be used for analysis but can also be sent to your CRM or marketing automation software for segmented post-webinar follow-up.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

COVID-19 is reshaping the market like we’ve never seen before. The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Episode 229: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue-driving machine. How does this change if you are creating vs in an existing market? What does good look like when it comes to pipeline coverage? It’s all about customer obsession!

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2023

Finally, a simple mockup you launch on a crowdfunding platform can be an effective marketing strategy. If you’re able to spend more time and absorb the cost, you might want to consider a higher fidelity MVP: A single feature MVP does what it says on the tin: it focuses on the single core piece of functionality your product offers.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When does Karen think is the right time for startups to think about partnerships? But how did you make your way into the world of startups and how did that lead to today being a partner at B Capital? Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing. And had the opportunity, my first startup experience was at Prosper.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Alt – Marketing Campaigns Manager at Outreach. Lauren is an email marketing wiz and always has a trick or two up her sleeve to share with her sales colleagues. During her career, she has worked for a unicorn, a tiny startup, a venture capital and a public company. A startup environment is ever changing.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

billion losing streak that has erased 84% of Sears’ market value.”. 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. First, be clear about your current market. Go upmarket.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2021

Mark has been in and around product marketing and sales for over 30 years. He’s worked at startups and at large Fortune 500 companies. So we do a lot of work where brands or retailers come and say, “Hey, we want to get some free product out into the marketplace and have some folks actually build reviews around it.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

Ben Braverman is the CRO @ Flexport, one of the world’s fastest growing startups combining technology, infrastructure and expertise, to build the operating system for global trade. As for Ben, he spearheads global sales and go to market teams. To date, they have $1.35 To date, they have $1.35 Just to name a few. Ben Braverman: Yeah.

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