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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? 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. That’s the success.

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Founder and CEO Revolutionize the Breastfeeding World Through her Company

Hearpreneur

eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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

Austin Startup

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. and therefore the sales?—?that that the brands needed.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales.

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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? Did you feel that pressure to deliver immediately?

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Founder Interview – Ola Sars of Music-Tech Leader, Soundtrack Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

Ola: We have been architecting the global business model for B2B music streaming, moving the antiquated background music market into the streaming era to bring transparency, compliance, fair compensation and correct flow-through of royalties to artists and composers when their music is played in commercial spaces.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. . Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:09 AM.