SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

And if you don’t have any mutual contacts with the investor, where they can do backchannel referring on you, you’re going to need to go the extra mile in terms of that communication style that we talked about over video, and also the proof of your commitment to what you’re building, and maybe even evidence of product-market fit.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

Fred Viet: The mental model we had, and we are doing expansion as well in other markets currently, is, Always trying to have some early signal. I like what you say about making sure the market is pulling you. and I would say making sure the market is pulling us instead of trying to force too much in this direction.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Yeah, crazy, because in entrepreneurship. on just how to bucket the messaging from our product marketing perspective. And that was particularly even more true for Cognota.

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ChurnZero

MAY 6, 2022

podcast to talk about his pragmatic approach to entrepreneurship, the lessons he brought with him when founding ChurnZero, and the one thing he wish he knew before starting his career. Product-market fit doesnt mean you can sell customers. Product-market fit means you can keep customers. You Mon joined the CHURN.FM

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While I was definitely scrappy in the early days while we were figuring out product-market fit, I haven’t taken that approach since. It was the first time I truly questioned if I was cut out for entrepreneurship. (I actually spent $25,000 to buy 500 copies of his book to get access to a two-day mastermind at his house.)

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. How to Build a B2B SaaS Product Development Strategy Using Data.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2022

The First Round Review delivers great articles on a variety of topics for startup founders, product managers, investors, and marketers. While Hacker Noon publishes good articles related to startups and entrepreneurship. It’s tech-minded product team members that will find it most exciting. Hacker Noon.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Do you have a working product? Have you established product-market fit ? ” It’s one of the key milestones in startup evolution, which proceed roughly like: Do you have a concept? Do you have any customer traction (e.g., $1M 1M in ARR)? Do you have a repeatable sales process?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

You don’t have an underwhelming MVP, you have a product that converts. You don’t have a weak proof of concept, you’ve already established real product/market fit. Suddenly, the conversations are different. As far as funding goes, you’re able to bring more to the table because your business is already off the ground.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Activities in this segment vary from advisory services to hands-on implementation support for primary functions (sales, production, marketing, etc.) These are individuals or agencies that can help clients improve operations efficiency and performance. and secondary functions (finance, supply chain, HR, legal, etc.).

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Kellblog

MARCH 4, 2020

Yes, you get product-market fit in the single-digit millions (or not at all). This painful period presents a great opportunity for sales and marketing to blow each other up. Which use-cases should we sell to? What “plays” should we run? But to get a truly repeatable, debugged sales model takes a lot longer.

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Backlinkfy

MAY 29, 2019

The priority is to provide potential customers with a more in-depth understanding of a certain topic that may stimulate their interest in the product or service. So how is content marketing different from product marketing?

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Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you have the time and knowledge to do everything I mentioned in this essay, this is probably where you should spend 80% of your time once you reached product/market fit. Where do you go from here? Getting the brand right, especially with no brand management experience is not an easy task.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Note: For the purposes of this specific post, the tactics presented are targeted to established SaaS companies that have already verified product/market fit and experienced initial traction. If your SaaS startup isn’t there yet, you should read Finding Product/Market Fit: When To Stand Firm & When To Pivot first.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My colleague Christoph summarized in this post already which criteria we’re looking at when we try to assess the degree of product-market-fit of an (Enterprise) SaaS company. There can be vast differences?—?pilots pilots that can turn into a company-wide rollout in a few weeks after our investment or endless year-long pilots.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My colleague Christoph summarized in this post already which criteria we’re looking at when we try to assess the degree of product-market-fit of an (Enterprise) SaaS company. There can be vast differences?—?pilots pilots that can turn into a company-wide rollout in a few weeks after our investment or endless year-long pilots.

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Backlinkfy

AUGUST 14, 2018

And try anyways to understand more information context about your product, you will find the big view of the product, market. I list many questions to ask you, just want to make sure you know the reason for your design. That is also a good habit to help you make a good design.

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Backlinkfy

JANUARY 1, 2019

Market research is crucial because it obliges a business in the identification of the opportunities in the market. You can know more about the present and new opportunities related to the product. If you are new to a business, then make sure you conduct appropriate research.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. He is a SaaS sales & marketing enthusiast who shares his insights on the same on social media. He talks about SaaS products, marketing, and sales. Chris Orlob. Lincoln Murphy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. I am really interested though, because you said about your experience there with Skurt, and often we hear about kind of the benefits of serial entrepreneurship.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Julien: It’s important to find your niche and to find product market fit. As you can probably see, I’m not a fashionista (laughs), but I love entrepreneurship, and I love media in general. If you meet him and let him talk, you’ll walk away wanting to ask, “Can I invest in your company? That’s how it happened.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I essentially started off doing services in tech as a marketing person, and eventually went into product marketing and product management and realized that I have an incredible passion for products, and products that change the way that we work and the way that we do things.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

He was on the computer science side, I was getting an MBA, and we were in an entrepreneurship class that mixed the students from different backgrounds. And I think to wrap it up, a lot of seed stage companies view things as I’m so busy, we’re trying to get to product market fit, we’re trying to build a company.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

But I do want to discuss some of the details of repeat entrepreneurship, because it’s rare that I have someone with as many incredible experiences in terms of that back pocket as you. Godard Abel: It is when you find that product market fit, but really I think the way you see it is your sales reps just start to crush their numbers.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”? What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? So do we really truly have product market fit? What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF?

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2025

” The panel agrees that what’s different in today’s market compared to traditional SaaS is how quickly companies can scale once they achieve product-market fit. ” Are Endowment Funds in Crisis? .” ” Is SF The Only Place to Be Building Today?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2025

At just 23 years old, he had already experienced the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. His first startupa consumer product company focused on group giftingnever gained enough traction, leaving him scrambling for work. Martin himself wasnt the obvious choice for a sales leadership role.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

We could talk about CAK and LTV, and economics, and fundraising, and entrepreneurship, and SaaS and engineering, and product management, but instead I chose to talk about culture and people, which is a little bit of an odd topic for a CTO to pick up. I was wondering what should we talk about?

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