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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We work with mostly modern teams. We hadn’t actually formally committed ourselves to having more of an enterprise sales organization.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company.