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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company? We got 300.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

and therefore the sales?—?that Brands would get higher margins but lower revenues while retailers would get lower margins but higher revenues (generally speaking, with Apple being a notable exception owning both sides of that for much of their sales). The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and that the brands needed.