TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. The startup’s new funding follows $1.2

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Any new local business could try this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. To create successful growth strategies, relevant marketing campaigns and products that deliver real value to your customers, you must first understand your customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

With the pandemic wreaking havoc amongst early years education amid school lockdowns, it’s no wonder edtech startups have piled into the space. billion primary-age children, only a few can access high-quality education, and approximately 58 million primary-age children are out of education, most of whom are girls.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. The (literal) Billion dollar question then is: how much should our SaaS product costs? So the actual Billion dollar question is: how much should our SaaS product cost to begin with ?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. nationality, family status or education). . nationality, family status or education). It offers tiered pricing for the SaaS, based on usage.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After taking a hiatus from covering SaaS multiples, Alex Wilhelm took a closer look at software revenue and noted that “the upward charge has plateaued” in recent months. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“To make these improvements, in-home healthcare strategies will need to leverage next-generation technology and value-based care strategies. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education. India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. Image Credits: Thitima Thongkham / Getty Images.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2015

Leads are the lifeblood of every SaaS company. As a SaaS startup grows, the limiting factor of the business quickly becomes demand generation. Below are the five marketing channels I’ve observed at SaaS companies. Buyers want to educate themselves before engaging with a salesperson.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2017

If law firms do not invest in AI, the educated client will question why they are being charged so much for tasks that should be automated. AI may have a larger effect on large law firms that will no longer be able to use first-year associates to rack up billable hours. The rise of AI places lawyers between a rock and a hard place.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. Technology startups are the pinnacle of that strategy.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Emergent leagues are incorporating influencers and athletes into their go-to-market strategies from day one, and legacy sporting industries are starting to pay more attention to their players off-court brands and new content monetization opportunities. You may know us from our creator-focused content, but thats just one part of what we do!

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 30, 2025

David Hunter I had the pleasure of interviewing David Hunter, the CEO of Local Falcon , a global SaaS platform offering businesses and agencies actionable insights to improve their local SEO rankings. Educating our users to maximize the platforms value is key, along with expanding our global reach and exploring partnerships.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

Recently, we welcomed Lisa Lawson to SaaS Office Hours to talk about building a channel go-to-market strategy for SaaS companies. Partner enablement, educating the sales team, is important to succeeding with these types of relationships. Here are my notes. Where to Start.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after the providers first and that’s been really hard and challenging because it’s a very fragmented market and it’s really hard to get traction,” Mauskopf said. Winnie Pro also includes help with marketing, enrollments and even staffing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2016

MySQL, the most valuable open-source acquisition; Zendesk*, the $3B leader in customer support software; DataStax, The business commercializing Cassandra; and most recently Duo Security*, an Ann Arbor-based trusted access company that has some of the most sensational SaaS metrics I’ve ever seen. Selling the problem is redundant.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In the world of education, this concept is called the Flipped Classroom. Students take charge of their education, and the teacher becomes a guide. The parallel between education and software runs deep. Though more software implies complexity, the strategy works because the decision-making is pushed deeper into the organization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. Digital health, education, B2B SaaS. We look at digital health, education and SaaS and they all thrive in this climate.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2016

As a SaaS startup scales from finding initial product market fit to building its go to market organization, one of the most important goals in building that go to market organization is developing a multifaceted marketing team. Many early stage SaaS companies focus on a single channel of customer acquisition at the outset.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And rightfully so: Business school is damn expensive and largely reserved for a select group of people who have the time and money to invest in elite education. The remaining time is reserved for deep dives into specific in-demand roles, such as digital marketing roles or product strategy tips.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Others that kept classical data center structures and were anti-moving to the cloud or software as a service (SaaS), relying on people working in the office, will have to adjust.”. A good strategy will have a handle on all three. Going forward, security will need to be more of team sport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If you have grown sick (as I have) of the latest apps and SaaS products du jour, this decade is going to be an amazing one to experience and build. From personal decisions to business strategy, we need better tools to abstract the complexity of today’s modern society. Data education. How to execute a bottom-up SaaS growth plan.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. Jill Soley is Vice President of Product Management at Issuu, where she oversees the strategy and development of Issuu’s popular SaaS digital publishing and content marketing solutions. No matter which future you face, the exit is tense and filled with emotion.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Over dinner, a veteran product manager argued most SaaS products’ onboarding practices miss a crucial step: create value for the user in the first session. After that conversation, I signed up for many brand-name SaaS products pretending it was for the first time, and I couldn’t help but agree with him.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

“If you think about quant investing in venture, there’s a lot of understanding around the metrics that drive SaaS startup success, particularly B2B startup SaaS,” he said. “It is vastly different for other sectors.” It seems that AngelList has been rethinking its recruitment penetration for quite a while now.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 29, 2015

This is doubly true as buyers are educating themselves before contacting sales teams to a far greater extent than ever. I hope they are useful for anyone designing or redesigning a content marketing strategy. For a a SaaS company, a blog’s measure of worth is the rate at which it adds email subscribers to its newsletter.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 23, 2016

Where is the budget to pay for your SaaS startup’s software coming from? The answer informs product, marketing and sales strategy. The answer informs product, marketing and sales strategy. That person is the ultimate decision-maker and a key constituent to identify, educate and court in the sales process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products. Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers. If you’ve put together a strong comms team, they have a strategy and a plan. More posts by this contributor. An awesome strategic comms pro should be your first marketing investment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. We recommend startups choose freemium strategies when they meet the following conditions. In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

Prior to Azibo, he was the founder at Nodabl, an HR-tech SaaS startup. Before that, Vikas ran product and strategy for The Baby Box Co, a Series A digital education platform for expecting parents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Image Credits: Guild Education. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. On Wednesday, November 17 at 3 p.m.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

On November 18, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint will welcome Pete Koomen, Co-Founder and CTO of Optimizely, the incredibly fast growing AB testing and personalization company Pete founded with Dan Siroker. Numbering more than 400 people, Optimizely has built an amazing business since 2009, serving thousands of customers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2016

What are the attributes of the ideal SMB SaaS company, an entrepreneur asked me recently. There are product, marketing, and sales attributes to that ideal company that successful SaaS business have exemplified in the past. The product enables self-education of a user. It’s a good question. Acquisition.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Testimonial: “We went from running a ‘hobby’ SaaS offering to running a real company with goals, releases and a growing customer base. They have an audit process that is based off custom development strategies they built out for us. One of the greatest values is their focus on education. ” Software Consulting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

As you peel back like a layer or two from the excitement around community, and the buzzword of it, there’s still a lack of education on what it actually means,” he said. How can an Airtable head of community create events that they know their Discord users want based on previous habits (and then let that influence product strategy)?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead. Identify a “culture chair.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. Open to anything “but especially B2B SaaS, future of work, consumer social, and developer tools.”. “If

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