SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. Bitly began in 2008, right around the time that other link-shortening companies were starting.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow from zero to $100k in MRR in their first 12 months of going live. As Clément said, this is not about good or bad. I’ll keep you posted.) And chances are that it would have been a good investment.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Business Consultancy.

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Instead, I think that the right team has to hit the right opportunity at the right time. Dark clouds on the horizon?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 9, 2013

In the summer of 2008, a crisis evolved on my team at Google: social networks had grown exponentially. The AdSense network was flooded with social network page impressions whose poor performance challenged advertisers and Google alike. During that summer, we formed a tiger team of about four or five key people.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. So, what happened is most of the craziness from 2020 and 2021 has been erased, yet we’re not back to the nuclear winter of fundraising in 2008.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions. The goal of every SEO, site builder, and creator is to develop a website that is engaging, simple, entertaining, and effective at a certain goal. In 2008, Google stated they can (and do) crawl dynamic URLs. Pay Attention to Meta Data.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t. This was around 2010.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2021

The book delves into a new approach for occupying a position in a consumer’s mind, one that mirrors a brand’s strengths and weaknesses, in addition to those of its competition. Everyone on your marketing team may benefit from a readthrough. It is also available in audio format. Does your current marketing strategy need a refresh?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Helen Egger — launched Little Otter. What was that like?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. But there is no such thing as only freezing out bad emotions. The sales community does not have a good track record with sales manager promotions or manager skill development. So strap in, because it’s about to get real, folks. It gets worse.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor. And then when I was about 12, my dad taught me how to weld. It can drive itself.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. They’ve realized, Hey, we can work effectively as a distributed team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

I transitioned from education to software in 2008, and I have held roles in everything from project management to sales. Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really. Amy Noack – Field Enablement Director. Liz Brown – Services Architect.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I co-authored Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company , published in 2008, a book which devoted considerable attention to what we knew from experience to be a serious issue. Will they get the A team or the B team? When you’re small, or small-ish in comparison, you think all the fear is on your side!

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A recent Gallup poll reported that June 2020 saw the most considerable drop in US employee engagement on record (more so than during the 2008 recession or after 9/11). Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Get started with 3 ideas.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Like the iPhone is 2008. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

DevOps is a practice that combines software and IT operations to shorten the development cycle and deliver high-quality software. As more enterprises adopt SaaS applications, it’s not hard to imagine a world in which most companies have dedicated SaaSOps teams. Will SaaSOps become more popular than DevOps?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Work smarter, not harder.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 17, 2020

Some examples include a pandemic (COVID-19), a terrorist attack (9/11), or an abrupt financial crisis (Banking Crisis of 2008). One of the first things you do is flag this concern to your management team so your organization can help rally around the customer. This offers some relief to the remaining team members. The Scenario.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. We had built this amazing team that I wanted to make sure that we continued to sort of grow and invest in and kind of keep the band together. And I think our team has done that too. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. For certain customer profiles or market segments, it may be necessary to combine freemium with a sales team. The Hotjar founders came from backgrounds creating consumer products, so developing software for end users was a fairly natural transition.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 4, 2023

Customer success teams need to be on the lookout for the signs and symptoms of churnand then act quickly to diagnose a potential issue. The customer is facing budget cuts In good times and bad, businesses are always looking for ways to reduce expenses. Often, it develops slowly over time. This happens to customers as well.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In fact, there were a lot of people who thought it was a really bad idea. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”. IT teams enjoy the freedom from supporting on-prem hardware and software, especially as they continue to be asked to do more with less. Things have changed dramatically since then.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Develop subscription models. Your marketing team can include staff, agencies, consultants and inexpensive people overseas hired through platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. John Quelch, Dean of The University of Miami Herbert Business School, Harvard Business Review , 2008. Some industries have used subscription models for decades.

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are plenty of articles dedicated to this matter, but none offers a better solution than hiring a team of knowledgeable marketers. Perhaps, you even know when you need to start a PPC campaign and why SEO is the option that is perfect for your developing startup. Well, we don’t live in 2008 anymore. Selina winds hands down.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. And I was like, “Wait, all of you are selling our products that we’re developing?” Ryan Smith: No. Jason Lemkin: What does it say? That’s it.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More tactically, Enspiral started as a loose collaboration of freelancers supporting one another and sharing resources in New Zealand back in 2008. It comes down to how people can be supported to manage themselves and develop the skills they need, rather than relying on someone to tell them what to do.” Let’s be counterculture!”

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