Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Once a startup has found an initial product market fit, the business must evolve the way it models its growth. Before product market fit, a startup’s financial projections focus on costs. At the core of effective revenue forecasts lie the Fundamental Unit of SaaS Growth.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

Is this the right thing for you SaaS? In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! Select the right expansion strategy for your product, business goals, and pricing model (i.e.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Their approach: “First we sell it, then the product team has to quickly build it.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Product-market fit has been really important. The term SaaS didn’t even exist yet and there was no big data. Teddie : There was no SaaS, there was no SasStr, Felix : No SaaStr, right. Teddie : You also executed again when you said you started, there was no SaaS. It can order subscription.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. So how did you make your way from the wonderful world of Australia, to become one of the leading CMOs in SaaS today with G2?

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. And working in the property management industry? How the hell does that happen?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 10, 2019

First up, a chalk-full Twitter thread by Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad on product-led growth, an Appcues x Salesforce launch, plus the Product Marketing Alliance dropping its 2019 State of Product Marketing. Your top subscription news. A product-led tweet storm. Here's the full rundown on Product Hunt.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Challenges of product management Product managers who try to deliver on the outcome promise face a lot of challenges in SaaS organizations. Lack of senior leader trust A very common challenge is that senior leadership doesn’t trust their product teams enough. The product momentum gap by Dave Martin.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Their approach: “First we sell it, then the product team has to quickly build it.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Then, lots of other functions like product management and engineering, which can sit close to those disciplines. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, customer support, recruiting, finance, HR, I can keep going. Engineering talks to sales, and support, and recruiting and analytics.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Today, we see Pendo raise $10M to get us all more product-led , Drift’s David Cancel reminds us of rituals (and why they’re so essential to fostering a culture’s success), plus the crew over at BBC questions the value of subscription—but we set them straight. Your top subscription news. What's up with Pendo?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

First up, a packed Twitter thread by Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad on product-led growth, an Appcues x Salesforce launch, plus the Product Marketing Alliance dropping its 2019 State of Product Marketing. Your top subscription news. A product-led tweet storm. Here's the full rundown on Product Hunt.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that. The only challenge there is your recruiting capacity, right? Is there an adjacent ask in marketing? So you can hire more and hire faster. Paul: Yeah.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 29, 2019

Two weeks ago, I found myself with a ticket to SaaStr Annual , so I roamed the sponsor area, listening to pitches from SaaS startups large and small. strategic narrative) has permeated its ranks because they’re usually staffed by a mix of sales, marketing and product people. Kasey Byrne, VP Marketing, Postman.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%. I like the idea of being long-term greedy, but short-term humble.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially especially for SMB SaaS startups. Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. Why should I build a partner program for my SaaS business?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Basically you can more easily start using products.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. Click To Tweet. You learn your customers’ language.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2019

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. So how do you design a go-to-market strategy that ensures product-market fit stays strong?

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Second, product market fit. Product market fit matters more than ever and technology is what’s going to get us out of this, the understanding of data and getting the insights and how fast we move in tech. And he said, “Product and engineering are going to build this weekend. Meagen, sales.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. Tweet this quote. You learn your customers’ language.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a Customer Success Manager, you will have to ensure the success of the customers by illustrating how the Domo product will provide value to their company. You are responsible to develop and own important relationships with each customer to ensure continued expansion opportunities as well as yearly subscription renewals.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Here’s what he had to say.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company.

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