Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

Unlike traditional startup founders who seek to grow headcount and scale a product, solopreneurs often are the product. Enter social media. The social media challenge for solopreneurs Even those with limited social media experience understand that neglecting this marketing channel is a missed opportunity for sales and growth.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Thanks to ever-changing social media algorithms and the ever-growing list of platforms that make them, it’s easier than ever to become a creator. A content pillar is a key theme or topic you want to focus on in your content and become known to your audience on social media. What is a content pillar?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2022

Engaging with customers on social media has become part of every customer experience strategy to drive sales and retain customers. At Intercom, we’re all about making internet business personal, and social media happens to be a big part of that. Foundations of social moderation and conversation. What did we learn?

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 18, 2024

Some influence web design, some make their way onto packaging, and others become a staple for social media branding. In order to stay ahead of the curve, savvy business owners are constantly on the lookout for ways to keep their social media branding fresh, engaging, and relevant. One powerful strategy?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2024

There’s so much debate on social media and elsewhere on bootstrapped vs VC. Really, I did a version of this myself, raising $9m in each of my two startups and stopping there. Bootstrapped you maintain control, and the unit economics. But many see it as so much harder. And it’s almost always longer. Maintain control.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

So a lot of folks on social media talk about more work-life balance in SaaS, and I totally get it. Especially in venture-backed startups with high growth expectations. “Unicorn” sounded like a rite of passage in 2021. Startups or at least scale-ups may need to learn to accommodate this now, too.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One last kick-in-the-arse post for the year: Don’t Be a Quitter Let me explain, as this is one of the most disappointing changes in my opinion in “tech” and startups over the last 12-18 months. All across social media, we see stories of telling folks to quit these days. Every startup I’ve joined or startup has almost failed.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2024

Imagine a $150m seed VC fund that buys 15% stakes in each startup. Yes, you get more time to see how the startups are doing, so that’s easier. At some point, it’s just clear that they are a good startup, but aren’t going to have that $1B, $5B, $10B+ exit it might take to be a Fund Returner. An epic amount!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

So they remain uncommon, even as some startups are under runway stress, etc. #2. But it’s not quite as bad in my experience as it may look on social media. Just 5% of the deals Fenwick closed were down rounds. While twitter talks a lot about downrounds, in reality, VCs don’t really want to do them.

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2024

So there are times in startup life when it seems like a wave is just overpowering you, that there is only so much you can do. But startups aren’t always as agile as social media paints them to be. And so many times, you may quietly feel limited by the team you have. ” Let’s make a list: #1.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

While the expansion into expense management and payments provides diversification, it also puts Navan in competition with well-funded fintech startups like Brex and Ramp. Their combined valuations exceed $1 trillion, highlighting the massive scale of private tech companies waiting for favorable IPO conditions.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The company provides a platform for brand and audience protection via social media comment moderating. The company focuses on moderating and removing hate, toxic, damaging, and spam comments from a brand’s online presence across the major social media platforms. We recently invested in Respondology.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This framework will work well for entrepreneurs , business owners , startup founders , product managers , creators , and marketers. Social media platforms Marketing 4.1. Social media 4.3. Say, do they have an affordable plan for startups or small businesses? Who can benefit from an analysis framework?

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2021

SaaStr has tried many events platforms (and we appreciate our partners there), but the majority of our community still wants to watch content on social media. Marketer turnover is tough on orgs, but they bring you to their next startup. Go where your audience is. Know your audience — and their and your core values.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Level One: Startup $1million to $10 million . In addition, sales must leverage a variety of communication and outreach tactics, including phone, email, SMS, social media, etc. In addition, sales must leverage a variety of communication and outreach tactics, including phone, email, SMS, social media, etc.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2023

They could be your personal network, experience in a specific industry, talent with a certain social media platform, or a strategy you’re particularly skilled at. Sometimes they come in from social media, and other times from rumor. Identify and Use Your Cheat Codes What are cheat codes? Give it a look!”

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 11, 2024

Think nonprofits and Silicon Valley startups have nothing in common?   As a tech writer and editor, I’ve also steeped in the “rocket fuel” of the startup world.   As a tech writer and editor, I’ve also steeped in the “rocket fuel” of the startup world. Think again.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Canva community primarily consisted of social media managers in the early days. Just-in-time learning is a must-have trait for startups. Canva started as a social media tool and has now expanded to many kinds of individuals and businesses who need a user-friendly design tool. Practice just-in-time learning.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Startups only have a limited amount of resources with an unlimited amount of experiments they can try. and it’s general enough to help any startup think through growth problems and bottlenecks. Two Main Flywheels There are two main flywheels for many startups, especially very technical ones. They want exponential growth.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 22, 2021

Cision has tools for monitoring all of the following: social media broadcast and video print media online media daily news briefings. What better way to get PR for your startup than by sending out a press release? Like many startups, you may not give much thought to this. Help a Reporter Out (HARO).

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! And if you’re like most people, you’ve also probably struggled to fill those boxes in. Everyone struggles with empty text boxes. Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right. Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

In this session, Jason Lemkin, Founder at SaaStr, and Lloyed Lobo, Cofounder at Traction discuss the journey behind creating the world’s largest community for SaaS and Business software, where hundreds of thousands across the globe actively engage through mega conferences, events, meetups, podcasts, blogs, social media, and more.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Prospecting Outbound prospecting involves actively reaching out to potential customers through channels like direct emails, cold calls, or social media. Its the classic question for growing startups: when is the right time to bring sales and revenue operations (RevOps) into your sales process and should you?

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2022

The app connects all communication channels (social media, email, live chat, etc.) So she kept regular meetings with her investors to glean as much wisdom as possible in the startup stage. Transparency is vitally important in startups, though things like salaries should be kept private. billion valuation.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

PST — Jeff Richards, GGV Capital Managing Director, and Tiffany Luck, GGV Capital Partner, share what it takes to win as a SMBTech startup in today’s economy. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. It’s part of the deal.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Can you do our social media posts?’ ’ We always thought that there’d be a giant market down below that Fortune 500 for startups that wanted to scale from 2 employees to 2000 employees and build a killer product for those people. You can very easily get wrapped up in doing all of these services.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I see so many SaaS startups hire someone likeable, who can talk the talk on sales hiring and processes — but never really understands what you do. Hiring a VP of Sales That Has Gotten Cyncial on Startups, Tech, and Sales Something I didn’t use to see much, but now is pretty common. Or puts in the effort to do so.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2020

We haven’t ever truly had a dedicated social media manager on our Instagram. We’ve had some help on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn with a few times where we had one individual spanning all four platforms but with so much to do, Instagram, our weakest social platform, fell by the wayside.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Henry’s found that with SMBs and startups, they’re typically consuming content on social media, primarily LinkedIn, while Enterprise customers aren’t consuming that messaging on social media. So, that’s where the battle happens of going to market for Enterprise customers without neglecting SMBs.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2023

Plus, images garner more interest across social media. What the $6B Coupa Acquisition Means for Software Startups. But it’s a matter of time before a startup blossoms to take advantage of this opportunity & trains a domain specific model. Here are the results.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2024

What are the three most under-discussed metrics on social media, with VCs, and especially with founders? Too many startups aren’t growing, or they’re growing 10-15-20%. Most venture-funded startups have no hope of growing more than 50% at $600M or more. We are not. Profitability is not your key to success.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders. But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between … When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It’s worth thinking about a mix of content, including: Case studies – serve as a useful source of social proof that others have benefited from the product.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2024

As a SaaS veteran who built and sold a software company for nine figures, invested in startups since 2013, 10x-ing his fund, and continues to build a powerhouse community of SaaStr fans, he offers some hot takes on the communities’ burning questions. In most startups, your payback time and magic number don’t matter.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2023

With the collaboration of ideas and goals between marketing and the product team, startups can drive more growth, get better feedback, and achieve revenue goals using in-hand promotion tools. This knowledge clarifies the hierarchy and helps the teams collaborate by aligning their steps for creativity, discussions, and execution.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re part of a startup ready to enter the market or working at an established business ready to launch a new product, it’s critical to understand how to approach your target audience. It includes things like publisher editorial, influencer outreach, word-of-mouth, and social networks.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s a common dream for founders to hope their startup be acquired one day, but what is a company, like Google, really looking for in their acquisitions? Google was acquiring 40-50 companies, while smaller startups will be acquiring on a much smaller scale, if at all. #3 Build relationships with product.

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