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6 Of The Most Common Mistakes I See First Time SaaS Founders Make

SaaStr

Here’s what I see most often, the Top 6 Mistakes First Time SaaS Founders Make: Incomplete understanding of business model, and how it will scale. Too much social-media based pattern matching. But they also make mistakes we tend not to make with experience. I know Palantir, Facebook, Datadog, Figma, Toast, Box etc.

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5 Themes We Expect to See Across Social Media in 2024 (ft. Expert Contributions)

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But something about 2024 makes me think it stands poised to redefine the social media landscape and the creator economy.  So, in this article, join me in exploring five themes for social media in 2024 through the lens of industry experts, unraveling their predictions and the reasons behind them.

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5 Themes We Expect to See Across Social Media in 2024 (ft. Expert Contributions)

Buffer Resources

But something about 2024 makes me think it stands poised to redefine the social media landscape and the creator economy.  So, in this article, join me in exploring five themes for social media in 2024 through the lens of industry experts, unraveling their predictions and the reasons behind them.

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5 Marketing Ethics to Follow on Social Media

Neil Patel

What Are Marketing Ethics and Why Are They Important on Social Media? It is a philosophy focused on using values like honesty, fairness, and social responsibility to build quality relationships with consumers. In the age of social media, people demand brands to be transparent. Transparency in Marketing Ethics.

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No, It’s Not Any Harder to Get Funded Today. Not Really.

SaaStr

So many on social media are lamenting how much harder it is to raise venture funding today than it used to be. Which is the bar to IPO today and for VCs to make enough money for their business model to work. And the data nominally suports it. Statistically, raising a Series A is 2x as hard or harder than it was in 2021.

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Social media is a good fit for SaaS

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Besides letting followers know that you've just ordered pepperoni and pineapple on your pizza, your flight from SFO to Logan is stuck on the tarmac, or that you're heading to Tahrir Square to protest against the government, Twitter and the other social media networks can be useful for businesses as well.

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SaaStr Podcast 449: How Notion is Winning at Enterprise SaaS by Building Community

SaaStr

Zhao says, “Our business model is B2B SaaS, but our sales motion is similar to a consumer-like company…there’s a lot of B2C elements to it.”. But in order for us to pull off this motion, we have to have a strong consumer brand, not just a business brand.” A Different Way to Approach Enterprise Leads .