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SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank (Pod 617 + Video)

SaaStr

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Logo acquisition (i.e.,

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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Can Mobile Games Really Achieve >50% of Revenue From D2C?

FastSpring

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. And then, of course, we saw the evolution of live services as well that just kind of turned out a little bit on its head in that way. It’s your marketplace or a distributor. Jump to video. Jump to transcript.

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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

Mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs : With the resurgence of M&A activity and an opening IPO market, software companies can explore opportunities for consolidation and value creation. However, companies must look beyond basic payment integration to evolve into platforms offering comprehensive services. Lots and lots of opportunities.

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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. The second issue is around who controls the quality of the service.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. A lot of folks outsource performance marketing to agencies or use a simpler attribution system, which is fine and correct if your budget is smaller. Chasing free customer acquisition.

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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