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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

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Alex Rosenblatt was the first marketing hire and Chief Marketing Officer at Datadog, all the way through IPO and beyond. He spent over eight years scaling their marketing from zero to supporting a multi-billion dollar public company. And just like product development, they take time to mature into something stable and reliable.

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The State of SaaS Go-to-Market with Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz

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Tomasz Tunguz , General Partner at Theory Ventures, shares nine observations from a Go-To-Market survey Theory Ventures did with hundreds of startups, 68% of them early-stage, well-funded, mostly mid-market ACV, and 25% remote. This creates a much harder capital markets environment. Why is the mid-market harder?

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70% of Pipeline from Marketing Comes From Just 4 Things

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So leading SaaS growth stage VC fund Insight Partners surveyed 100+ of its top later-stage B2B companies to see how they did marketing and demand gen and pipeline creation in particular. What they learned: Marketing drives 48% of pipeline across B2B companies. Sales drives 33%. And Partners and Channel 15%. An interesting break-down.

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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

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” The SaaS Market Has Turned a Corner According to Brian, who sees the market through multiple lenses as HubSpot’s Chairman and through his role at Sequoia Growth and Propeller VC, the SaaS downturn that dominated 2022-2023 ended recently. “It felt like we came out of the recession in Q3 of 2024,” Brian noted.

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Harness the Full Power of Integrated Payments to Drive Revenue

It will help you understand: Where you stand in the five stages of payment integration, why you want to get to the next level, and how to do it How to create new revenue streams with premium payment services such as detailed transaction analytics, tokenization, and advanced fraud prevention tools How to ensure your payments strategy not only supports (..)

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5 Tips to Getting a Job in SaaS in a Tougher Market

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It’s not the crazy hiring market of 2021. So a few ideas to improve the odds that you get a job in this market: 1️⃣ Write truly great outbound emails to folks you’d truly want to work for, explaining exactly how you’d crush it, directly to the CEO / VP. It’s different. Enough with the 1000 one-click job applications. And better.

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Does a Typical B2B SaaS Company Spend on Digital Marketing per Year?

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Does a Typical B2B SaaS Company Spend on Digital Marketing per Year? And marketing, done well, on platforms almost always works. The markets are often too nichey for B2C techniques to work as well, and there is too much competition for these tiny niches. A little bit. To a point. But in B2C and e-commerce?

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Stakeholder Engagement 👥 Learn strategies to secure buy-in from sales, marketing, and executives. Prototyping & UX 🛠 Get step-by-step guidance on building prototypes and designing user interfaces that maximize LLM usability.

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Data-Driven Marketing 101

This eBook highlights how data-driven strategies empower marketing campaigns through personalization tactics. Here’s what’s covered: How data-driven marketing drives the customer experience. Understanding marketing strategy & performance. The most challenging obstacles to data-driven marketing success.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack.

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Marketing Ops: The New Revenue Hero

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers.

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The Ultimate Marketing Efficiency Checklist

When times are tough and marketers are asked to do more with the same (or less), we have to make tough choices. Here are 7 creative ways marketers can work smarter (not harder) - with the resources you already have! However, you might be able to squeeze more value from the tools and processes you’re already using.

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Best Practices for Marketing Database Cleanse

Finding a vendor to cleanse and optimize your marketing database can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for. ZoomInfo has produced this eBook to help marketing leaders understand best practices around cost and value when it comes to choosing a B2B contact data provider. This buyer’s guide will cover: Buying Considerations.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The bad news?