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Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The 2023 VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends. We’ll also examine how public markets currently influence the SaaS industry and unpack the elevated CIOs’ role in budgeting for SaaS products.

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Clouded Judgement 1.12.24 - Hard Truths

Clouded Judgement

Setting the stage for our convo was the increase in startups either shutting down or being acquired / acquihired recently. 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. The environment got tougher for EVERYONE.

Cloud 284
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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

Sydney pulled someone from Salesloft with a product marketing background who understands operations, running programs, and being strategic. This person has built out a partnership marketing team within the product marketing team. More and more info is entering the Cloud, creating more exposure and risk.

AWS 206
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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

5 Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup Starting to feel the pain of not having product managers? Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. Product Marketing. Intro Hi, my name is Victor. How is it working?

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Unlocking Revenue Growth with Segmentation

Chart Mogul

This is where we as a company should be spending our efforts – where we have product-market fit. Startup plans just aren’t generating the kind of revenue that we’d expect, so there’s clearly a mismatch between the price and value our customers are receiving. How much revenue does direct sales contribute over self-serve?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pendo and New Relic — July 12, 2019

SaaStr

248: Joe Chernov is the VP Marketing @ Pendo, the startup that understands and guides your users allowing you to create products they cannot live without. Before InsightSquared, Joe was Head of Content Marketing at Hubspot where he increased blog traffic by more than 1M visits/month and increased leads by 40%.

Scale 135
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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. We went through an accelerator and almost got our startup MBA.