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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir

SaaStr

First, you hire your sales team. Finally, growth occurs when sales, product, and marketing can come together. She draws from personal experience scaling a global product company to $1B and shares common mistakes. Call their previous employers and find out whether your prospective hire was hitting their quotas.

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

From our experience providing integrations to thousands of customers, here are the three key business process automations to help your growing company scale faster: 1. Through every sales cycle, there’s a need to share information from sales, accounting, customer success, and other teams. Quote-to-Cash. Customer 360.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users.

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15 Most Popular SaaStr Annual 2022 Sessions (So Far!). See You Sep 13-15!!

SaaStr

10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift’s Co-founders : Reaching unicorn status is nice validation, but the luster fades when founders can’t navigate the hidden challenges that come with uncharted territory. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces. They also address really wide-ranging industries from construction to restaurants, to designed infrastructure. Product-led Growth.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Funding to Date : $6.6M CEO : Rodrigo Dantas.