OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . Imagine what you’d search for in 2010 to find Slack.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. These companies can scale really efficiently.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2021

You and your marketing team need to understand this. If you’re a blogger, freelance writer, or online business entrepreneur, you can become a sought-after copywriter when you develop your creativity and perfect your writing skills. Site speed has been a ranking factor since 2010 and it’s good for users, too.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Typically, B2B issues can be more complex, require the collaboration of a lot more departments within the company, and are often in direct dialogue with the consumer, rather than a buying team or committee. Not work, work, work.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

You have to be listening to customer feedback and incorporating that as you’re developing your messaging, your positioning, your product names. So, one of my personal hero stories in this is the team at Box who and answered to the question, what if you could actually know what your customer’s thinking?

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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. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. Look, Uber was the bad boy brand of tech. Work smarter, not harder.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Shopify again has done that from 2004 to 2010 before they started scaling [inaudible].

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

They know there’s 5 individuals with semi-automatic weapons in the car, SWAT team responds, and those people are now in jail. Bad guys know that when you come to Las Vegas, because of our abilities, technology being at the forefront of it, you are going to get caught. They got defeated, quite frankly, oftentimes by the bad guy.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me. So I just had this idea.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

SaaS 40

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?

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