Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What does this mean for product design and product management? Today’s episode continues our enterprise go-to-market podcast series.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2020

Marketing has many disciplines. Howeve you may count and divide marketing skills, marketing is the team with the broadest mandate of different techniques to master. To handle this complexity, some startups have split the role under two leaders: a head of product marketing and a head of demand generation.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Product Marketing vs Growth Marketing discussion isn't just about specific tasks and to-do lists, but about how they cultivate product growth to achieve business objectives. Using high-quality user feedback , customer research, and product analytics to improve the customer experience and drive product adoption.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve spent the last year working to find product-market fit for my startup, Dock. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Salesloft, partner marketing, customer marketing, and more. The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Kate has a simple framework for going upmarket: Product, People, and Process.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2021

Are you tracking the right Product Marketing KPIs? With so many product growth insights available to every product marketer, it’s sometimes hard to understand which metrics are relevant and which you should be tracking to measure the success of your product marketing. What is Product Marketing?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Last week we had a great one with Sarah Scharf, VP of Marketing of Vanta, check it out here. This week we have Jessica Gilmartin, Chief Marketing Officer of Calendly! #1. Jessica brings nearly 20 years of marketing and leadership experience to Calendly. What’s your core stack of apps today?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A great product, while necessary, isn’t sufficient to build a market leader and eventually a public company. Companies that win a market are just as good at Go-to-Market as they are at building great products. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). First, we’ve talked about this a lot at SaaStr: product-led or sales-led, which is right?

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2023

Dear SaaStr: When Should You Hire Your First Demand Generation Marketer in SaaS? A deep dive on that and why here: I Hired My VP of Marketing at $20k MRR. In a recurring revenue model, you want to make every accretive hire you can. Or just hiring a junior marketer to start to save a few dollars. Don’t wait.

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SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2021

But, I know many of you have never hired a head of marketing before. There are basically 3 types of SaaS and business web marketers. Well, for SaaS companies, marketing broadly speaking breaks into three species — Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing and Demand Generation. Why’s that?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Merging Sales-led and Product-led Motion Is Hard. Asana is still in the process of evolving a product-led growth strategy into a product-led sales strategy because they’re part of the same motion and require a lot of iterations to get right. . Product-led Motion De-risks the Revenue Model. Think expansive!

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2024

You probably have fallen out of product-market fit, partially or entirely. More on that here : When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit (Updated) Second, focus on the customers you do have and making them super happy. Third, focus on metrics besides revenue that matter, and that you can grow right now.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

On the surface, B2B and B2C marketing may seem to be worlds apart. As open-source and developer-led companies become increasingly visible, important, and massive, we should draw the parallel between developer marketing and consumer marketing. First, developer marketing is influencer and brand-driven. Same for B2D.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2022

Tracking business performance through revenue targets remains one of the most valuable ways to measure company success. According to Blond, there are two main components to creating the perfect revenue goal: “There are two variables to hitting targets. At this stage, you don’t need a revenue target quite yet.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2021

There is a lot to do in marketing. But a new VP of Marketing will really only do 3 things. I’ve interviewed 100s of VP of marketing candidates over the past years and I can tell you one think — it’s easy to spot the ones that won’t work out. How do you think sales and marketing should work together?

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. What is Product Market Fit? Concept Commit.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For a SaaS enterprise to be successful, determining the product-market fit is extremely important. The customers need to perceive a SaaS product’s utility in solving a particular problem to accept it as a viable solution. Product Market Fit is an important aspect of SaaS product development. Mark Andreessen.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Having a unique product doesn’t guarantee that users will buy it, but it starts with building an initial user base and expanding it further. You need to identify a niche in the current market, make yourself known, understand your main differentiators, and offer your users a ton of value for their money. Market understanding.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2018

If you start a business tomorrow that is able to cleave 1% of revenue from Salesforce, you will have built a billion-dollar business. I suspect old-fashioned product marketing may be the disruptive force to prise $1 billion worth of market away from some of these incumbents. 1% is not that much.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

What about moving from founder-led sales to building a sales team and scaling your revenue growth? Demodesk’s CEO, Veronika Riederle, and VP of Revenue, Lauren Wright, answer the most pertinent questions on scaling a SaaS start-up as they take us through lessons learned from the three stages of growth. Product-Market Fit .

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The report’s authors already laid out how to get back to hyper-growth , and their article inspired me to share my predictions for 2021’s most important product marketing trends: 1. More SaaS companies will adopt product-led growth. And that takes us to the next marketing trend… 2. That’s not in dispute.”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

Dorian Stone , Head of Organizations Revenue at Grammarly, is here to share lessons from his experience of scaling the company from consumer to SMB to Enterprise to help you steer your expansion efforts in the right direction. Simply because their product was being used in a professional setting didn’t mean it was a product-market fit.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time. This is true in life and business.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2023

With so many product marketing strategies floating around the SaaS world, it can be hard to identify the right one. In this guide, we’re going to go over what PLG marketing is and why it just might be the perfect approach for your business. What does PLG stand for in marketing?

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 12, 2024

If we rewind the clock back to 2021, the venture funding market went crazy. Many companies raised rounds in 2021 who thought they had product market fit. Or who thought their market was 10x bigger than it actually was. Or who thought they had differentiated enough from their competition or from large incumbents.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Imagine a world in which your customers sell your product for you. You just have to achieve stellar product-market fit. Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, put it this way, “product-market fit is when people sell for you.” What is product-market fit? Ideal, right?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The current public market environment might look like a great SaaS crash for many people. In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Salesforce Ventures Investor, Jessica Bartos, shares the 5 metrics every SaaS company should care about in any market environment, especially the one we’re currently in. Why is this market different than others?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Questions like: Which marketing channel brings in the most MRR? How does my PLG motion compare to Sales-led in terms of revenue or retention? Segmentation informs strategy Now that you’ve got the power to discover these insights, you can use them to inform your strategy and reach your next revenue targets. Which plan?

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The number of global venture capital (VC) investments dipped in 2022, thanks to ongoing geopolitical tensions, turbulence in global capital markets, supply chain issues, and increasing interest rates. VCs and investors are still adjusting to the market. Founder-led funds have also had an impact on the state of the market.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

So that has many of us questioning which direction we should be heading toward in our modern day revenue tech stack? Which AI tools are going to make revenue operators’ lives immensely easier? Where do you think revenue technology is heading? —- Robert Simmons – VP of Sales A lot more automation and AI.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2023

With the right go-to-market team, your new launches won’t suffer unnecessary delays and you can increase adoption but focusing on the right things. TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. What’s a go-to-market strategy?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Editor’s Note: This article is Part Two of a four-part series that covers the most crucial product marketing activities for an early-stage startup. Our product is ready! This post is part of a series that covers the core Product Marketing work needed in the four critical phases of an early-stage startup.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

How much should a SaaS startup invest in sales and marketing at different stages of the business? Sales and marketing investment depends on many different factors including establishing product market fit, the business’s sales model (inside, field, freemium), and not least, cash balance and fundraising capacity.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In SaaS, the B2B marketing funnel forms the backbone of any successful product and marketing team. Best of all, it compounds its ROI as you start iterating strategies and optimizing your marketing process. The moment a user decides about acquiring your product or not. It helps you visualize the customer journey.

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