SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * In just four years, Podium has raised almost $100 million, with annual recurring revenue increasing to almost $60 million. Why is this? Yep, we did that.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Q: Should Product Marketing Work for Product or Marketing? Product marketing is a weird art, with many over-indexing. These days, CEOs are looking for too much magic from product marketing. Maybe we expect too much, even up to $10-20M ARR, and expect magic from product marketing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Casey Winters is a growth and SaaS marketing expert who has transformed how startups grow and scale into large companies. Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. He talks about SaaS products, marketing, and sales.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So we didn’t have product market fit for that. And we were doing great in revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 Is there a higher comfort level with it because we use products like Alexa and the iPhone in our everyday lives now?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Responsible for recurring revenue in SaaS-based economy dealing with renewals and expansion. In the SaaS-based economy, subscriptions are like gold as they can help you generate revenue regularly. Each and every sector of the organization, like the product, marketing, sales, and finance, needs to be focused on the customer journey.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

As an individual user, I have absolutely no interest in using this product myself or testing it out. So this type of product is a little bit harder to build a PLG motion based on the freemium user base. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. And, that was a product manager? Eric Yuan : Product marketing manager.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR. ” You can invest in managerial talent along the way, and it scales the company.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Related read: What is product led growth? Don’t leave revenue on the table, drive growth by optimizing your pricing.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

After Jebbit raised its Series B, Michael Marcus, VP of Customer Success (CS), sat down with his team to plan their scale-up operations. Health scoring makes it easier to identify ideal customers, which arms with you with feedback to loop back to Product, Sales, and Marketing. Drive new levers of growth.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Value to B2B Customers Translates to 1 Thing: Revenue [26:01]. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems. If I’m looking for a new dashboard tool or a new financial tool, I really appreciate when someone is asking me, “Okay, what problem are you trying to solve?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Nikos Moraitakis, CEO @ Workable, moderates this insightful session with Dan Adika, CEO at WalkMe; Mallun Yen, Chief Business & Product Officer at RPX Corp; Craig Walker, CEO at Dialpad; and Wade Foster, CEO @ Zapier. At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Build the product.

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