Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. We saw this happen with Lionel Richie and the cofounders of Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She is the co-author of a business book, called Aligned to Achieve , about sales and marketing alignment. She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. She is a thought-leader and expert in growing sales, inside sales and marketing organizations. Tonni Bennett – VP Sales at Terminus.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). ? How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). First and foremost, overcoming no brand in market.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. If your market is small, then churn matters significantly more. But is this purely anecdotal? But don’t stop there.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

How long is a startup a startup? We found ourselves asking this question in a marketing meeting not too long ago. It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup.

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Kellblog

JULY 21, 2019

While I included a picture of Slack’s Dreamforce booth, which is very fancy for most early-stage startup situations, imagine what Slack could have spent if they wanted to. And that’s good — you’re going to get leads and engage with people in your market, not win a design competition.). Think guerilla marketing.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With 20+ investments in the space, we’ve seen that vertical SaaS has the ability to win very high market share given how specific it is to businesses’ workflows. We believe this will open the potential for virality and an inbound go-to-market motion. Factoring in particular is relevant here as cash management is critical.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Today, our pricing analysts look at more Peloton problems —and what that could mean for startup IPOs. Klaviyo is a growth marketing platform created for online businesses— featuring powerful marketing automation and a revenue-driving email platform. His process for advising startups. Lessons from his own past startups.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

But is a multiple-choice approach the only option for SaaS businesses seeking to grow in an increasingly complicated market? Netflix evolved from a flat rate pricing structure into a tiered pricing structure—a move that may or may not be sufficient to increase Netflix’s revenue in a saturated market. What is flat rate pricing?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. For example, Peter Kazanjy , Cofounder of Atrium HQ , suggests saving on commodities but splurging when there’s a superior differentiated solution. Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

Jakob Marovt : This Copenhagen-based engineer was bit by the entrepreneurial bug early on in his career, which forced him to try on many hats, finally finding his passion in marketing. His experience has helped position him as a thought leader in the sales world, which he shares on a weekly podcast, The Startup Chat.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

Startup Capital Ventures. Path Capital Advisors. Market One Capital. 500 Startups. Managing Director & Cofounder. BUX Advisors LLC. New Market Venture Mgmt LLC. World Innovation Lab – WiL. Riverwood Capital. Managing Director. Aristos Ventures. Structural Capital. Managing Partner.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At Point Nine, we aspire to continuously share what we learn with our community and the extended startup ecosystem. Sales is hard, especially in the early stages of a startup. You founded a startup to lead teams, grow your business, and embark on an extreme and hopefully glorious journey we all dream of.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. If rejected, how can startups do this in a polite and respectful way? How can startups give the appearance of a large company to enterprises?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. The market spends $2.5 Product : Apollo. This one certainly was. The result?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

We had so many inbound referrals, and in terms of recruiting and hiring, people knew that there were a lot more roles on the go-to-market and business side. People knew Dropbox, the product, they knew about the company, but a lot of the market in Austin assumed there was only engineering and kind of product roles. We landed on Austin.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. So he used this sports analogy around scaling a high tech startup and compared basketball to American football.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Common go-to-market myths and lessons.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Michael Seibel, YC Partner and CEO of YC’s Startup Accelerator @ Y Combinator. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Asawari Samant, Head of Marketing @ Anyscale. Kady Srinivasan, Head of Marketing @ Klaviyo. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Brittany Bingham, VP of Marketing @ Guru. Mariela Towers, Head of Marketing @ BEE. Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Michael Seibel, YC Partner and CEO of YC’s Startup Accelerator @ Y Combinator. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika.

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