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How to Scale a SaaS business: 5 Growth Tips with Jason Lemkin + Algolia

SaaStr

Check out the session here: Algolia also summarized their Top 5 take-aways here , and below: Most SaaS founders start out the same way— armed with ample expertise of the technical details that go into a product and with limited experience of other aspects of scaling, such as sales. On finding product-market fit in the early stages.

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What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer

Casey Accidental

I had been an advisor for Eventbrite for about two years, so I had a lot of comfort with the CEO and many of the executives before ever starting the role. When I started advising Eventbrite, the company had a business unit structure, so it didn’t even have a CPO role, but product leaders embedded into different business units.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue. So, ensuring the founder(s) have a finger on the pulse of product-market fit is key to growing revenue, and it also helps make it clear who to hire next and with which sales goals/targets. One way is to get the timing right.

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Product Analyst: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements

User Pilot

Product analysts research to find market trends, collect and analyze data, track and assess product performance , understand product requirements, and report insights to stakeholders. What are the skills needed for product analysts? Technical skills Let’s start with the technical proficiencies you need.

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How to Build your Marketing Stack with Gorgias and OpenClassrooms (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Guillaume : So your the… as the founder and CEO of a very early stage, like almost pre-product market fits a startup. Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit. We’re still at a stage where the product evolves a lot. And you talked earlier about how it’s becoming more and more technical.

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3 Go-to-Market Insights from Kenny van Zant at SaaS Office Hours

Tom Tunguz

In flywheel models, the product and on-boarding flows must do this. Friction forces potential customers to jump through a few hoops in order to use the product. Those users with strong initial intent, and ultimately good product market fit, will push through some friction at the outset. Thank you, Kenny!

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Teach, Be Curious, and Challenge Them to Rise: Tips for Better 1:1s

OpenView Labs

And then talk, advise, assist. We dig into longer term business objectives and strategies, technical ideas they want to present, and even into their personal life plans/strategy if that’s where they take the conversation. Anne Hollander, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Growth at Trimble. Listen, listen, listen.