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9 SaaS Company’s Share the #1 Tactic they Used to Hit $5m in Revenues

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine case studies from $0 to $5M+ ARR, including a 7-step SEO system, instant CAC payback, and a 10x10 ad budget grid

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SaaS Underdogs: 9 Founders Crushing their Well-Funded Competitors

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine bootstrapped companies from $600K to $27M ARR and the playbooks they used, from compare pages to white label and affiliates

Marketing/Growth
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How 100 Bootstrappers Hit $5m Revenue Last Month

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine growth tactics by stage, from automatic SEO and white labelling to affiliates, compare pages, and niche monopolies

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9 SaaS Founders Share the #1 Tactic they Used to Hit $5m in Revenues

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine founder tactics in three parts: converting traffic, landing more customers, and $1M+ revenue ideas such as buying competitors

Founder StrategyMarketing/Growth
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9 SaaS Pricing Tactics That Work (with proof!)

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Usage-based, value-based, and three-prong pricing, plus onboarding and upsell methods behind $100K+ customers and 20% yearly expansion

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9 Genius Case Studies You Should Copy in 2023

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine real examples: buying a $500K ARR competitor for $200K cash, $5M P&L lessons, and contracts you can reuse

Marketing/Growth
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#1 Sales Machine Used by 273 SaaS Founders to Break $10m in Revenue

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Four questions to close SaaS deals, hiring playbooks from $1M to $10M ARR, and the changes behind an 852% SDR productivity gain

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Use this Secret Weapon to Sell your SaaS For 10x Multiple (or higher!)

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

A buyer-list script, a data room structure, and a deal process for getting offers, indicative terms, and term sheets

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3 SaaS Founders Reveal How They Broke $10m Revenue

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Growth playbooks from iContact, Expandi, and QuestionPro: paid ads at $50M ARR, an $8M org chart, and SEO versus ads

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The Top 100 Fastest Growing SaaS Companies of 2023

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine tactics in three parts: more traffic, closing your next 100 customers, and adding your next $1M in revenue

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9 Secret Customer Acquisition Channels

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Oct 2026

Nine acquisition channels from Blackthorn, YouCanBookMe, and Loom's first head of growth, with tactics for each

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How Ninety Reached $30M ARR By Empowering Teams Through Adversity

Mark Abbott•Ninety.io•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

How Ninety added a C-suite, built software for a coaching community, and plans to use AI on the road from $30M to $100M

Founder Strategy
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The Year of Experiments: How We Added $500K at 8M ARR

Aye Moah•Boomerang•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Trial-ending emails, dunning sequences, and a confirmation page: tests ranked by impact and complexity

Product/Engineering
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B2Z: A New Generation of Customers Are In Control

Irina Novoselsky•Hootsuite•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why buyers research on social before contacting sales, and how to replace the demo request with self-service

Sales
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Service vs. Solution: How YouMail Broke $10M ARR Stopping Bots

Alex Quilici•YouMail•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Customer behavior showed a voicemail feature was really solving robocalls, which reshaped where the paywall sits

Founder Strategy
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How We Fixed Our Growth After Getting Stuck At $7m ARR

Kyle Racki•Proposify•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Moving upmarket with security features and new positioning, then cutting burn from $400K a month to profit

Founder Strategy
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Bootstrapping, Team Growing, & Fast Changes at Retention.Com

Adam Robinson•Retention.com•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A reusable dataset keeps costs near fixed, while organic LinkedIn content and a prelaunch Google Form built the demand

Marketing/Growth
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Analysis of $57B in Revenue: What's Driving Performance for the Most Successful Sales Teams in H1 2024

Guy Rubin•ebsta•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why more leads can mean less qualified pipeline, and how top sellers qualify early and clean up pipeline by deal age

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Propelling Productivity and Growth Over $10M ARR Using GenerativeAI

Generative AI for comparison listicles and RFI answers, plus testing an AI feature before a large investment

Product/Engineering
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$200M Turnaround: Savneet Singh of PAR Technologies

Savneet Singh•PAR Technology Corp.•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Keeping the government business to fund a software rebuild, then using the sale proceeds for an acquisition

Founder Strategy
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Company of the Future? Pivots On Our Way to $50M ARR

Alina Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why Chili Piper dropped its inbox product, moved into routing and scheduling tools, and runs on self-managed teams

Marketing/Growth
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Interview with Chili Piper Co-CEO, Nicolas Vandenberghe

Nicolas Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

From a $25/month round-robin tool to a multi-product platform: a $33M Series B and ACV up from $6k to $10.5k

Founder Strategy
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The Path to $100M: How We Doubled from $25m to $50m ARR TTM

Jay Ackerman•Reveleer•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Institutional capital, two acquisitions, AI automation, and a wider addressable market behind Reveleer's growth

Founder Strategy
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3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash

Aleksandr Yampolskiy•Security Scorecard•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A fast-release experiment framework, customer focus tied to revenue, and the CEO's role in capitalization

Founder Strategy
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Scaling Smarter: Lessons Learned From Scaling to Over $30M & Pivoting At Different Growth Phases

Muhammad Younas•vFairs•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Moving from virtual job fairs to an all-in-one events suite by co-creating with customers

Product/Engineering
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$100M+ CEO Cadence: How I Structure My Time To Build BrightEdge to 9 Figures

Jim Yu•BrightEdge•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A weekly, monthly and quarterly operating rhythm, from Monday management meetings to quarterly reviews against plan

Founder Strategy
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3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients

Wes Bush•ProductLed•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why founders got 80% of PLG results: a clear market position, an intentional free model, and the Bowling Alley framework

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Why My Bootstrapped Company Ranks At the Top of Every Financial Metric in the SaaS Industry

Mark Douglas•LCPTracker•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Benchmarks for Rule of 40, 118% NRR, 89% GRR and customer lifetime, plus the goal-setting cadence behind them

Founder Strategy
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Scaling Execution of A SaaS Business: How to Scale Your ARR 5X

Yaroslav Lazor•Railsware•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Mapping the company, putting the right people in the right seats, and codifying processes to get unstuck

Founder Strategy
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How We Went From $0 to $10m+ ARR in 18 Months...The Playbook!

Stephen London•Fello•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

The team, idea and story behind Fello's growth since its October 2022 launch, from a flat org of experimenters to brand building

Marketing/Growth
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Increasing Revenue Growth from 20% YOY to 100% YOY: How Our AI Dialer Stands Out in a Competitive Market

Senraj Soundar•Koncert•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

How Koncert moved from a human-powered platform to an AI one that is 80% cheaper, with a goal of lifting win rate from 30% to 50%

Marketing/Growth
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The State of AI: SEO in 2024

Shiyam Sunder•TripleDart•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Programmatic SEO, tactical AI tools, backlinks, and five ways to optimize for LLM-driven search

Marketing/Growth
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How CaaS (Creative-as-a-Service) Can Cut Your Design Costs By 45%. The Secret Sauce for Bootstrapped Founders

Shahrouz Varshabi•Designity•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Design costs, finding and briefing designers, giving feedback, and the last 10% rule that separates good from great products

Marketing/Growth
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How Celigo 2x'd ARR in 3 Years

Jan Arendtsz•Celigo•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Valuation discipline, choosing investors beyond price, and using a little debt alongside equity

Founder Strategy
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How Cyvatar Went From 0 to 1000+ Cybersecurity Freemium Users

Corey White•Cyvatar•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A free scan with no credit card, plus education on ransomware and third-party risk that leads to paid plans

Product/Engineering
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How I Hit 375,604 Linkedin Followers & Got the "Top Voice" Tag

Josh Aharonoff•Mighty Digits•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Five mistakes to avoid, the content formats that work, and how to repurpose one idea across LinkedIn, YouTube, X and newsletters

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What I Did to Grow $20M Revenue as Founder of 3 B2B SaaS companies

Adam Baker•Dealpad•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Scaling out of founder-led sales, making first GTM hires, and leading with customer value past $1M

Marketing/Growth
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The Facebook Group Sales Machine That Makes Us $1M Per Year

Mikael Dia•Funnelytics•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A 3,000-member community, lead capture, and CRM follow-up produced $208K in 48 hours at launch

Marketing/Growth
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Accelerate Sales Cycles by 30% in 90 Days With Proven Tactics from $5B Revenue

Mark Fershteyn•Recapped•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Standardize the sales process, map next steps to the customer's go-live, and shorten cycles without new tools

Sales
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When and How to Hire and Build your GTM Team

Chris Gannon•Captivate Talent•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

How to judge readiness, why early full-time hires backfire, why founders should lead recruiting, and what a hire really costs

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Secrets of Successful SaaS Exits: How to Get a 10x ARR Multiple

Okan Inaltay•GP Bullhound•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Strategic buyers versus private equity, diligence readiness, and timing the market for a premium price

Founder Strategy
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How I've Generated 10.5M Impressions On LinkedIn In 8 Months(Leading To Multiple 5 and 6-Figure Deals)

Jared Kleinert•Offsite•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Profile setup, calls to action, and post formats, with 34,000 followers and millions in pipeline as the outcome

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Should I Hire Full-Time Employees or Outsource Engineering? Lessons from a 12x Startup Founder

Matt Kowalczyk•EXIT83 Consulting•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Stage-by-stage guidance on in-house hires versus outsourced engineering, from pre-seed to Series A

Founder Strategy
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Building the ZoomInfo of China: How We Scaled to $100M Revenue

From selling data packages and APIs to WeChat distribution, and why online customer acquisition keeps getting costlier

Marketing/Growth
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How We Built Revenue Orgs That Broke $100M ARR and Why it Won't Work Now!

Eric Boduch•Revcast•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Pendo's early growth: building a distinctive brand, creating inbound demand and raising win rates through positioning

Marketing/Growth
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4 SaaS Metrics That Have Driven Over $50bn in Acquisitions

Thomas Smale•FE International•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Net dollar retention, growth rate, sales efficiency and the Rule of 40, plus the churn myths buyers ignore

Founder Strategy
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How I Operationalize AI in 60 Days: 5 Strategic Moves for SaaS Leaders to Double Sales and Cultivate a Thriving Culture

Ryan Staley•Whale Boss•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Tie AI to one retention or growth metric, then implement, train the team, and apply it to RevOps

Sales
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How to Design A Sales Process to 3x ARR in 11 Months

Kyle Vamvouris•Vouris•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Document and visualize your sales process, set exit criteria, find bottlenecks and track leading activity before hiring reps

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The SMB SaaS Playbook: Building a High-Growth SaaS Engine by Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise and SMB Tactics

Amin Yazdani•Craver•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why smaller buyers suit iterative products, and how to staff high-volume sales and raise revenue per customer

Marketing/Growth
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Scaling from $0M ARR to a $1.2B acquisition with a Single Leader for Sales & CX

Vikas Bhambri•GTMfund•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why a single owner of sales and customer success improves customer fit, accountability, and installed-base forecasting

Customer Success
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How Storylane Grew From 25k to 150k+ Visitors/Mo in 3 Months with Demo-Led SEO

Madhav Bhandari•Storylane•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Interactive demo pages as an SEO engine: how they compare with blogs on signups and how to scale production

Marketing/Growth
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Building a Growth Flywheel, Rather than Engine: Product, Media, and Community

Sophie Buonassisi•GTMfund•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

How product, media and community reinforce each other to compound acquisition, unlike a linear growth engine

Marketing/Growth
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8 Winning LinkedIn Influencer Marketing Strategies for SaaS

AJ Eckstein•Creator Match•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Borrowing creator trust, picking partners by relevant metadata, structuring exclusivity and measuring results through conversion

Marketing/Growth
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5 Product Marketing Experiments That 2x-ed Our Conversion Rate

Kirsty Finlayson•Chameleon•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Personalized product experiences, in-product meeting prompts, and how to sequence tests across the buyer journey

Marketing/Growth
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4 Key Considerations to Connect Product and GTM Strategies to Accelerate Growth at Every Stage

Scott Gifis•NoFraud•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Pricing and packaging, a customer-lifecycle focus, clear operating roles and hiring for today's needs, across growth stages

Product/Engineering
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The Good and Bad: 5,000 Leads from Salesforce & $15m ARR Later

Chris Federspiel•Blackthorn•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A $3.25M acquisition at 6x ARR funded by debt without dilution, plus how payments revenue was built

Founder Strategy
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Signal-Based Selling: Leveraging Data & Insights to Set Your Sales Team Up

Jen Igartua•Go Nimbly•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why signals beat lead scores, with examples across new business, expansion, and churn, and playbooks for reps

Sales
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How Pavilion Creates Over $10M ARR Through Efficient Growth & Extreme GTM Alignment

Sam Jacobs•Pavilion•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Shifting from growth at all costs to profitable growth through retention, unit economics, and payback periods

Marketing/Growth
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7 Phases of Hiring That Took Outreach From $0 to $230M

Mark Kosoglow•Operator AI•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

How the sales leader's role, early hires, capacity hiring and second-line managers change at each stage of growth

Sales
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How EECs Lower CAC & Increase Buyer Intention

Nils Liedlich•Letter Leverage•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Education email courses give non-buyers a next step, pre-qualify leads, and plug a leaky website funnel

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9 Mistakes We Made from $1M-$10M in ARR & How We Hit $70M Today

Colin Nederkoorn•Customer.io•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Reliability over technology, processes that stop scaling, and the discipline of reaching cash-flow break-even

Founder Strategy
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3 Changes You Can Make To Turn Every Rep Into a 10x Seller

Isaac Pohl-Zaretsky•Pocus•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Prioritize accounts by signals, move past opaque lead scores, use AI for account research and narrow your target market

Sales
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The Sales & Marketing Leading Indicator to Drive Forecast

Jeff Schwartz•dataroomHQ•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why leading indicators beat capacity models, shown by applying the SaaS 101 formula to a real 2023 plan

Sales
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Growing Carabiner Group from 0 - $6M (and through an exit)

Cliff Simon•Carabiner Group•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Community-led selling: finding prospects with keyword alerts, helping first, and turning referrals into pipeline

Founder Strategy
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How I Grew Factors.ai by 6x by Prioritizing Strategic Marketing Initiatives

Sri Swaminathan•Factors.ai•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Founder-led LinkedIn, live sessions, partnerships, and an 80% planned, 20% experimental channel mix

Marketing/Growth
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From $0 to Millions in ARR: The LinkedIn Ads Blueprint for Hyper-Efficient Growth (3:1 ARR/CAC)

Brian Yam•Paragon•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A step-by-step framework from ICP definition to targeting, creative and measurement, built to start small and scale 100x

Marketing/Growth
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How Issuu Got Acquired for 9 Figures in 2024

Joe Hyrkin•Issuu•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Why Issuu chose debt over equity, the covenant risks to watch, and how it ran an all-cash sale to Bending Spoons

Founder Strategy
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Beat The Benchmark: 2024 B2B Sales Benchmarks and How to Improve Rep Quota Attainment

Guy Rubin•ebsta•Sep 2024

ebsta's H2 2024 data shows 75% of reps missed quota and 34% of deals slipped

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Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder

Rajesh Jain•Netcore Cloud•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Funding a large acquisition from accumulated cash, and using interactive email to cut clickthrough friction

Founder Strategy
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How Omnisend Broke $50M ARR Focusing On Content & SEO

Rytis Lauris•Omnisend•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

A five-person in-house SEO team, authority building, and how Omnisend adapts to AI Overviews

Marketing/Growth
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Future Cybersecurity Tech & How Coro Is Using Its $100m Series D Money

Dror Liwer•Coro•Sep 2024•Watch video & transcript

Coro's path from early security lessons to an all-in-one platform, and the market ambition behind its Series D

Founder Strategy
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9 Tactics CEO’s Used to Hit $10m Revenue

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•Jun 2024•Watch video & transcript

Nine growth tactics compared by speed and cost, with worked examples in affiliates, webinars, content and marketplaces

Founder Strategy
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Want $90m in Revenue?

Nathan Latka•Founderpath•May 2024

A Founderpath webinar on nine founder strategy and marketing mistakes to avoid while scaling toward $90M in revenue

Founder StrategyMarketing/Growth
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Founder Hacks I've Used to Generate $20M in ARR

Adam Baker•Dealpad•Mar 2024

Nine founder hacks, including a LinkedIn post that drove $1M in pipeline and inbound conversion lifted from 0.8% to 4.2%

Marketing/Growth
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How We Bootstrapped to $22m

Adam Robinson•Retention.com•Mar 2024

Adam Robinson on Retention.com's $22M in 48 months, the B2B pivot, and building product with 1,637 waitlist signups

Founder Strategy
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How we Bootstrapped to $13m Revenue

Adam Sandman•Inflectra Corporation•Mar 2024

Inflectra CEO Adam Sandman explains the vertical sales model that closes $500K accounts without outside funding

Marketing/Growth
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How Chili Piper Plans to Hit $50m ARR, Profitable

Alina Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Mar 2024

Chili Piper's co-CEO on upskilling, prospecting flow, and getting 35% of pipeline from partners

Sales
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Lessons and Scars From Building 2 SaaS Companies to Over $100m

Amir Orad•Sisense•Mar 2024

Sisense co-founder Amir Orad shares hard-won lessons on people, product and go-to-market from two $100M+ SaaS companies

Founder Strategy
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How We Saved $250K in Salaries

Amit RG•Richpanel•Mar 2024

How Richpanel built an AI employee for product ops: its role, onboarding, weekly workflow, and tips

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How Keap Uses Onboarding Coaches

Ammon Curtis•Keap•Mar 2024

How Keap's product team uses onboarding coaches to guide new customers, shared by CPO Ammon Curtis

Product/Engineering
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Stop Asking Questions

Andrew Warner•Mixergy•Mar 2024•Watch video & transcript

Mixergy's Andrew Warner shares a different way to run conversations with founders, using live examples from his interviews

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SaaS Tech Stack Survival Guide

Ben Murray•SaaSCFO•Mar 2024

Ben Murray's tech report findings: the top 5 tools to own, ERP versus point solutions, and the 4 key data sources

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My $2.6B Mistake & How Ecosystem-Led Growth May Save Us All

Bob Moore•Crossbeam•Mar 2024

Bob Moore on RJ Metrics' $60M exit, the lessons behind Crossbeam, and how ecosystem-led growth works

Marketing/Growth
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Leveraging Strategic Partnerships to Scale Our Fintech Company to $2.4M

Brad Parker•FormPiper•Mar 2024

Why culture, marketing and sales form a triangle, and how directory listings, store catalogues and CRM and POS partners drove growth

Marketing/Growth
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How Cledara Changed its Go-To-Market

Brad Van Leeuwen•Cledara•Mar 2024

Why Cledara moved up to larger buyers, and the pricing, packaging, CTA, quota and buyer journey changes that followed

Sales
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The Framework Used to Increase 2.6x Daily Signups For Loom & Craigslist

Brian Belhumeur•Chronicle Labs•Mar 2024

Chronicle Labs' Brian Belhumeur shares a repeatable testing framework from signup-flow work with Loom and Craigslist

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Expanding into North America and building your GTM Team

Chris Gannon•Captivate Talent•Mar 2024

A readiness checklist, plus how to choose senior or junior hires and what a bad hire costs

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From $0 to $25K MRR in 8 Weeks

Christian Peverelli•WeAreNoCode•Mar 2024

Why the old funding path is breaking for founders, and how no-code tools and AI assistants cut the steps from idea to launch

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How the design of a button led to $300 million

Cindy Brummer•Standard Beagle•Mar 2024

Costly UX mistakes, common design errors, and how one button change drove $300M in sales

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QuotaPath’s Evolution Leading to 3x Close Rates

Cole Evetts•QuotaPath•Mar 2024

How QuotaPath moved from a niche sales-comp tool to a must-have product, with the changes that tripled its close rates

Founder Strategy
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5 steps to build your FinOps tech stack & metrics dashboard

David Appel•Sage•Mar 2024

A five-step path from process maturity to AI automation, billing use cases, and forecasting

Founder Strategy
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The Next Tech Billionaire Will Be Solo

David Tabachnikov•Scholarship Owl•Mar 2024

How a $6M ARR B2C business uses AI tools, and what AI can and cannot do for a founder without a team

Founder Strategy
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How switching to channel first strategy grew our SaaS company 300% YoY

Dror Liwer•Coro•Mar 2024

Dror Liwer on moving to 80% channel sales: how Coro picks partners by audience, incentives and reasons, and the KPIs it tracks

Founder Strategy
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How Matter Made Drove Down CAC Over 20%

Eli Rubel•Matter Made•Mar 2024

Design and experiment case studies from Loom, CIN7 and CallRail, including CAC reductions of 21% and 18%

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Practical Real Life AI Use Cases for Marketing

Eric Siu•Single Grain•Mar 2024

Single Grain founder Eric Siu shows where AI already helps marketing teams in practice, from analytics to automation

Marketing/Growth
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How SEM Rush Hit 106k Customers, $300m Run Rate, and How We're Building Product in 2024

Eugene Levin•Semrush•Mar 2024

Semrush's president on $49.95 pricing, a 40% affiliate payout, 116% NDR, and the IPO

Marketing/Growth
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Brand Stories To Drive Customer Connection & Growth

Eunji Jeong•Designed Minds•Mar 2024

Designed Minds founder Eunji Jeong on using brand storytelling to build customer connection and support growth

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How Chatfuel Carved Out A Niche In A Competitive Market

Fedor Pak•Chatfuel•Mar 2024

Why chatbots stopped working, how a single customer success story became the core offering, and why Chatfuel builds media, not marketing

Founder Strategy
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Replicate the Chris Walker Linkedin Playbook

Finn Thormeier•Project 33•Mar 2024

Project 33's Finn Thormeier breaks down the founder-led LinkedIn approach popularised by Chris Walker, step by step

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Top 5 Playbooks to Generate Pipeline in B2B SaaS

Gil Allouche•MetaData•Mar 2024

Comparison guides, convo ads, closed/lost campaigns, and B2B social: the playbooks MetaData used to grow 6x

Marketing/Growth
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Top 9 Learnings Scaling from $5 to $20m Revenue

Gilles Domartini•Cleeng•Mar 2024

Nine founder-strategy lessons from Cleeng's CEO, who has grown the company to about $19M in revenue

Founder Strategy
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The journey of bootstrapping for over a decade

Greg Galant•Muck Rack•Mar 2024

Greg Galant on Muck Rack's pivot to SaaS, the road from $1M to $50M ARR, and the $180M Series A

Marketing/Growth
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2024 B2B Sales Benchmarks:

Guy Rubin•ebsta•Mar 2024

Ebsta's analysis of 5M+ opportunities, covering pipeline generation, qualification, and deal management

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NPS is A Lie, Here's What To Do Instead

Heather O'Neill•Pixels for Humans•Mar 2024

Why the question, the math, and the framing fail, plus referral behavior and leading indicators to track instead

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How Rows built a loginless product that 3x'd conversion to signups

Henrique Cruz•Rows•Mar 2024

Rows' CMO on going login-less, using conversion triggers and SEO to convert, and tracking power users

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Undercover Metrics That Signal Your SaaS Is Primed For Acquisition

Ignacio Villanueva•Boopos•Mar 2024

How acquirers read the SaaS M&A market: valuations, cohorts and financing signals, plus when to sell and how to de-risk

Founder Strategy
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How Cognism Avoided A Scaling Crisis Going From $0 to Over $70M ARR

James Isilay•Cognism•Mar 2024

How mentors at each stage, from $1M to $50M+, helped Cognism's CEO avoid a scaling crisis

Founder Strategy
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Billion Dollar Sales Presentations

James Ontra•Shufflrr•Mar 2024

Shufflrr CEO James Ontra on building sales presentations that help close large enterprise deals

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3 Bold Moves CyberSmart Took to Secure Our Future

Jamie Akhtar•CyberSmart•Mar 2024

CyberSmart CEO Jamie Akhtar on the strategic bets behind a $300,000 MRR target and staying resilient into 2025

Marketing/Growth
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How To Save $100,000 Or More

Jared Kleinert•Offsite•Mar 2024

Line-by-line budgeting, hotel negotiation, and agenda tips from Offsite's CEO to cut retreat costs and raise ROI

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How a Podcast Can Unlock over £250k in Enterprise Sales

Jason Bradwell•B2B Better•Mar 2024

How a podcast built £3M in pipeline and closed £250k in new revenue, and why enterprise deals differ from SMB sales

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$400m ARR: How I Built My Org Chart to 10, 100, and 1,000 FTE’s

Jason Cohen•WP Engine•Mar 2024

Jason Cohen on what changes after product-market fit, running quarterly one-pagers, and hiring managers and people better than you

Product/Engineering
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How I'm Launching New Products at $300m+ in ARR

Jeff Cotten•Alvaria•Mar 2024

Alvaria CEO Jeff Cotten on how a $350M software company brings new products to market alongside its core business

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5 Monsters SaaS Founders Must Slay

Jeff Mains•Champion Leadership Group•Mar 2024

Jeff Mains of Champion Leadership Group names five founder-level obstacles that hold back a SaaS company as it scales

SmartBug Media logo

Navigating Growth: 8 Key Metrics

Jen Spencer•SmartBug Media•Mar 2024

Jen Spencer of SmartBug Media covers eight metrics that tie marketing activity directly to pipeline and revenue

Sales
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9 Lessons Learned As I Grew BrightEdge To $100m ARR

Jim Yu•BrightEdge•Mar 2024

Jim Yu's lessons from $1M to $100M ARR, from team and cadences to leadership hiring and metrics

Founder Strategy
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How Distru Built a $7M ARR ERP

Johnny Ji•Distru•Mar 2024

Distru co-founder and CTO Johnny Ji on how a lean engineering team scaled cannabis-industry ERP software to $7M ARR

Founder Strategy
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Top 3 Metrics I Focus on with my $5m+ ARR CEO Clients

Josh Aharonoff•Mighty Digits•Mar 2024

Mighty Digits founder Josh Aharonoff shares the three financial metrics he tracks first when advising $5M+ ARR SaaS CEOs

M-Files logo

I Joined as CFO at $10m. Now we're $100m+

Justin Kim•M-Files•Mar 2024

Nine lessons from a CFO and COO on rebuilding the team, designing systems three years ahead, and planning for a Plan B

Founder Strategy
Potion logo

How to Leverage Generative AI to get 10x More Work Done

Kanad Bahalkar•Potion•Mar 2024

Potion CEO Kanad Bahalkar on using generative AI so a small team can take on far more work without hiring

Luzmo logo

Cost-efficient growth: How We 3x’ed Luzmo’s Organic Traffic in 3 Months

Karel Callens•Luzmo•Mar 2024

Luzmo CEO Karel Callens on the low-cost organic growth tactics that tripled website traffic in one quarter

Marketing/Growth
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Maximizing Exit Outcome for Founders

Kazik Piętka•Surfer SEO•Mar 2024

Lessons from Surfer SEO's bootstrapped path to $20M: late finance hires, cap table imbalance, and a Loom case study

Founder Strategy
Typeform logo

One Funnel: Unifying Your GTM to Drive Efficient Growth

Kim Lecha•Typeform•Mar 2024

Typeform's CEO on unifying teams, tech stack, and customer profiles into a single funnel in five steps

Marketing/Growth
Tomi.ai logo

Use AI-based Lead Scoring That Adds 30% Revenue From Digital Ads

Konstantin Bayandin•Tomi.ai•Mar 2024

A patented approach that feeds CRM outcomes back to ad platforms as predictive conversions, to lift revenue from digital ads

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The 3 Benchmarks to Leverage

Kristian Marquez•FinStrat Management, Inc•Mar 2024

Kristian Marquez of FinStrat Management on the benchmarks that keep a SaaS budget grounded in real numbers

Founder Strategy
Lemlist logo

From $0 to $23M in ARR (with $0 in funding)

Kévin Moënne-Loccoz•Lemlist•Mar 2024

Lemlist's playbook: community, Product Hunt, LinkedIn, mini tools, acquisitions, and turning down $30M

Marketing/Growth
Owner.com logo

Building Unreasonable Efficiency in SMB GTM

Kyle Norton•Owner.com•Mar 2024

Owner.com's CRO on saying no, running a monthly cadence, and documenting everything to scale a lean SMB sales motion

Sales
Pavilion logo

How Pavilion landed our first 300 customers

Laura Guerra•Pavilion•Mar 2024

Pavilion's VP of Growth, Laura Guerra, walks through the go-to-market approach behind its first 300 paying members

Marketing/Growth
Time Doctor logo

The 13 Counterintuitive Insights I Had Bootstrapping An 8 Figure SaaS

Liam Martin•Time Doctor•Mar 2024

Liam Martin's takeaways from Time Doctor: build camels not unicorns, make EBITDA, and put PLG before sales

Marketing/Growth
Kalyna Marketing logo

How In-Depth Research Created More Than $500k in New Revenue

Mariya Delano•Kalyna Marketing•Mar 2024

How search-intent research and human-sounding content built Orum's SEO engine, and what happened after the engagement ended

Vibe HRC logo

Navigating Change: People Strategies for Acquisitions

Marnie Robbins•Vibe HRC•Mar 2024

A people playbook for both sides of a deal: day 1 communication, change management, and culture integration

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The Sales Process That Led to 23 Exits

Matt Wolach•Xsellus Sales Coaching•Mar 2024

Matt Wolach's three tactics for closing earlier: TTK, the pain/solution recap, and BAMFAM

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How Fresh Relevance Used Integrations-as-a-Strategy to Fuel Growth

Mike Austin•Fresh Relevance•Mar 2024

Fresh Relevance CEO Mike Austin on how a partner-integration strategy drove growth and set up the company's acquisition

Marketing/Growth
SaaS Talent logo

Our 3 Hypertargeting Strategies Proven

Mike Bertoni•SaaS Talent•Mar 2024

How SaaS Talent's founder, Mike Bertoni, finds and reaches top candidates with narrowly targeted recruiting

PandaDoc logo

Moment Marketing: How Not Taking Yourself Seriously Helped PandaDoc Approach $100m in ARR

Mikita Mikado•PandaDoc•Mar 2024

Five benefits of a playful brand, from the PandaDoc name to joking about competitors, and what it did for revenue

Marketing/Growth
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The LinkedIn Strategy Booking Me 50 SQLs/Month

Nick Verity•Cleverly•Mar 2024

Cleverly CEO Nick Verity shares the LinkedIn playbook that fills his pipeline with about 50 sales-qualified leads a month

Marketing/Growth
Sequel.io logo

How we built a $3.7M pipeline

Oana Manolache•Sequel.io•Mar 2024

Oana Manolache of Sequel.io explains how webinars drive pipeline and what her team did across one year

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3 Key Considerations Bootstrapped SaaS Companies Should Make

Okan Inaltay•GP Bullhound•Mar 2024

An investment banker at GP Bullhound lays out what bootstrapped founders should weigh before an acquisition or funding round

Marketing/Growth
ListKit logo

How We Scaled ListKit from $0-$1m ARR in 90 Days, Bootstrapped & Profitable

Oliver Schmalholz•ListKit•Mar 2024

The founder skill mix, a $14,186 launch day, a 7-day email sequence, and the daily and weekly rhythm behind ListKit's first $1M

Sales
Goldcast logo

3 Keys To Goldcast Going All-In On Building A Media Company

Palash Soni•Goldcast•Mar 2024

Why video, live digital events, and a content engine became Goldcast's answer to crowded SaaS and weak outbound

Marketing/Growth
Ahrefs logo

Ahrefs 3 Step Framework to Incorporate Product & Data Into Content

Patrick Stox•Ahrefs•Mar 2024

Build a better product from user feedback, create product-led content like tools and videos, and publish your own data studies

Marketing/Growth
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How We Used Our Own Revenue Planning Software to Secure Seed Funding

Paul Self•Multiply GTM•Mar 2024

Multiply GTM founder Paul Self on using his own revenue-planning product to build the model that supported a seed raise

Remote logo

Building a Resilient Global Workforce

Paula Dieli•Remote•Mar 2024

What employee turnover really costs, and low-cost retention levers: value-based hiring, transparent pay, flexibility and fewer meetings

Founder Strategy
Wynter logo

How We Bootstrapped Wynter to $2.5M in 3 Years

Peep Laja•Wynter•Mar 2024

Peep Laja on no-code MVPs, selling before building, and growth drivers like product-led ABM

Marketing/Growth
Carta logo

SaaS CEO's Sold 20% in the Median Series A Round

Peter Walker•Carta•Mar 2024

Carta's Peter Walker uses fundraising data to show how much dilution SaaS founders should plan for at Series A

Founder Strategy
Stack Overflow logo

How We Built a 100m Person Community

Prashanth Chandrasekar•Stack Overflow•Mar 2024

Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, on turning a developer community into the base for a $100M+ SaaS business

Product/Engineering
Appcues logo

How to Accelerate Product Adoption by 300% in 2024

Ramli John•Appcues•Mar 2024

Appcues content director Ramli John on the tactics behind lifting product adoption among new and existing users

Product/Engineering
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Best In Class: G2 Case Studies

Robin Izsak-Tseng•G2•Mar 2024

G2's VP of Revenue Marketing, Robin Izsak-Tseng, reviews case studies that show what strong B2B software marketing looks like

Marketing/Growth
Wing Assistant logo

How to Leverage Marketing Analytics to Scale From $1M to $20M

Roland Polzin•Wing Assistant•Mar 2024

Wing Assistant's playbook for the climb from $1M to $25M GSV: set up analytics early, hunt inefficiencies, capture bottom-of-funnel demand

Marketing/Growth
ZenBusiness logo

How Ross Buhrdorf Sold HomeAway for $3.9b as CTO

Ross Buhrdorf•ZenBusiness•Mar 2024

ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf on the path from HomeAway's $3.9B sale to building a $60M+ revenue small-business platform

Founder Strategy
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How We Grew iContact to $50M ARR

Ryan Allis•SaaSRise•Mar 2024

Growth hacking to $1M ARR, 10 profitable channels, VC at no more than 1x ARR, and the near-sale to Salesforce for $95M

Marketing/Growth
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The SEO Philosophy Omnisend Uses to Rank #1

Rytis Lauris•Omnisend•Mar 2024

Omnisend CEO Rytis Lauris on the SEO philosophy behind the rankings of a $50M-revenue company

Marketing/Growth
Frontegg logo

How Frontegg Ops Enabled A 2.5x Increase in ARR Amidst Tumultuous 2023

Sagi Rodin•Frontegg•Mar 2024

OKRs, one silver-bullet initiative per function, and founder-led innovation: Frontegg's operating playbook

Founder Strategy
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Building a GTM Strategy to Drive Profitable, Efficient Growth

Sam Jacobs•Pavilion•Mar 2024

Pavilion's path from bootstrapping to a $25M raise, then a post-investment pivot built on frameworks and customer-driven growth

Marketing/Growth
Patra logo

Unifying Methodology, Process, and Systems

Sandy Robinson•Patra•Mar 2024

Patra's RevOps head on lining up sales methodology, process, and technology as one system

Sales
ChartMogul logo

How Long Does It Take to Get to $10M ARR and Beyond?

Sara Archer•ChartMogul•Mar 2024

Lessons in growth based on ChartMogul research

Marketing/Growth
Beamer logo

How We Acquired & Merged Two Successful, High-Growth PLG Companies

Satya Ganni•Beamer•Mar 2024

Beamer CEO Satya Ganni explains how two product-led growth companies were acquired and merged into one business

Founder Strategy
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How this 39 Year Old Transformed His Public Company into a $400m+ ARR SaaS

Savneet Singh•PAR Technology Corp.•Mar 2024

PAR's CEO on a $200M turnaround, 20x EBITDA acquisitions, and why he tracks ARR per share

Product/Engineering
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Use This Framework to Audit Your Go-to-Market Strategy

Sean Lucas•N.Rich•Mar 2024

Score your GTM as sloth, camel, rocket or cheetah, then move from spray and pray to account-based selling in a few steps

Sales
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What Is Average Time-to-Hire for a SaaS Company with $1-$10m in ARR

Sri Chellappa•Engagedly•Mar 2024

What to hire for at $1M, $3-5M, and $5-10M ARR, and how to spot a bad hire early

Founder Strategy
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The T2D3 Tool We Used to Launch $63 Billion ARR Office 365 at Microsoft

Stijn Hendrikse•T2D3•Mar 2024

Founder Stijn Hendrikse shares the T2D3 planning framework from his time at Microsoft, now used by 12 SaaS startups

Marketing/Growth
FE International logo

Is Your SaaS Business Worth 2x or 10x?

Thomas Smale•FE International•Mar 2024

These 3 Metrics Are Key Leading Indicators in 2024

Founder Strategy
SaaSCEO.com logo

Why Growth Stalls around $5M ARR

Victor Cheng•SaaSCEO.com•Mar 2024

Victor Cheng on the causes of the $5M ARR plateau and the changes founders can make to get moving again

ProductLed logo

How to Scale a Product-Led Business to $10M ARR & Beyond

Wes Bush•ProductLed•Mar 2024

Wes Bush's nine-part Product Led System, from winning strategy and simple pricing to an elite team

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Use the Voice of the Customer Playbook for a 140% Revenue Boost and 30-Point NPS Increase

William Radcliffe•Launch by NTT Data•Mar 2024

A Voice of the Customer playbook from Launch by NTT Data, tied to a 140% revenue lift and a 30-point NPS gain

Product/Engineering
Railsware logo

The Subtle Art of Making Sense of Your Business Data

Yaroslav Lazor•Railsware•Mar 2024

Railsware CEO Yaroslav Lazor on turning scattered business data into clear signals a SaaS team can act on

Founder Strategy
Simplero logo

Go Fast Without Sacrificing Quality: How Simplero's CEO and COS Make Decisions

Beth Barr-Jobson•Simplero•Sep 2023

A chief of staff's 1:3:1 approach to faster CEO decisions: pre-frame the ask, bring proof, and request exactly what you need

Founder Strategy
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Hitting $5m ARR Was Not Easy: 3 Things that Failed

Bridget Harris•YouCanBookMe•Sep 2023

Three things that failed and three that worked across product, making money, and people and culture at a profitable 12-year-old company

Disclo logo

How Human Touch Helped Disclo Close Their First 6 Figure Deal

Hannah Olson•Disclo•Sep 2023

Disclo's human-centred sales approach: talk to real people, tailor demos to the buyer, and mobilise champions to close a six-figure deal

Netcore Cloud logo

How I Bootstrapped To $100m Revenue Using Proficorn Secrets

Rajesh Jain•Netcore Cloud•Sep 2023

Netcore's route to $100M ARR through multi-product expansion, four acquisitions, a profitability narrative and employee-centric retention

Time Doctor logo

How I scaled TimeDoctor to $10m Revenue

Liam Martin•Time Doctor•Sep 2023

Why remote companies can be 13% more productive, and how written, asynchronous communication holds a 46-country team together

Mogli Technologies logo

How Mogli used Profit Units to Incentivize Employees, Retain Talent, & Generate $7M ARR

Stevan Simich•Mogli Technologies•Sep 2023

Why profit units beat options for LLC bootstrappers: staff stay W2, gains get capital gains rates, and the cap table stays simple

Paperstack logo

How we added $1m ARR over the last 12 months during an economic downturn

Assel Beglinova•Paperstack•Sep 2023

Founder-led sales for the first 30 B2B customers, scaled automations, and an 84% repeat usage rate behind the 12-month ARR climb

BackBlaze logo

How we bootstrapped to $80m Revenue, 500k Customers

Gleb Budman•BackBlaze•Sep 2023

Backblaze's CEO on when to go public, how much it costs, and how to reframe your story rather than rewrite it for investors

The Receptionist logo

How we built a $6M SaaS company that everyone wants to work for

Andy Alsop•The Receptionist•Sep 2023

Employee supremacy: ranking employees ahead of customers and shareholders, and how that shapes hiring and decisions at The Receptionist

Parting Pro logo

The Silent Majority: How we've bootstrapped our "unsexy" Funeral Management SaaS to $1m+

Tyler Yamasaki•Parting Pro•Sep 2023

How Parting Pro became unfundable in 2022, then cut expenses and tracked runway in months to build a funeral SaaS without VC

Living Security logo

We Grew To 200+ Enterprise Customers & $20,000,000 Raise

Ashley Rose•Living Security•Sep 2023

How Living Security created a niche in enterprise security, raised $25M, and shifted from growth at all costs to efficiency

FINDMINE logo

Why we optimize for Revenue per Employee ($175k+) and why you should too

Michelle Bacharach•FINDMINE•Sep 2023

Why ARR per FTE suits AI companies better than burn multiple, and how FINDMINE hired for talent and kept diversity

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108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Thiyagarajan (Rajan) Maruthavanan•Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator •Mar 2023

Why 85% of SaaS companies never reach $1M ARR, from the co-founder of Upekkha's SaaS accelerator

Bloom Growth Studio logo

$10m playbook for getting sales/marketing to work in harmony

Grant Cohen•Bloom Growth Studio•Mar 2023

Who owns what in the pipeline, when to hire SDRs, and how a marketing SDR lifted MQL to SQL by 50%

Kovai logo

12 Founders disciplines

Saravana Kumar•Kovai•Mar 2023

The founder disciplines behind Kovai's bootstrapped growth past $10M ARR

Founder Strategy
Sprinto logo

3 Demand Gen Tactics

Pritesh Vora•Sprinto•Mar 2023

Three demand generation tactics from Sprinto's head of marketing and growth

Sage logo

3 Frameworks to Help Forecast

David Appel•Sage•Mar 2023

Three forecasting frameworks for the first three years, from cohort analysis to capital efficiency, plus how to set targets for the board

Founder Strategy
Everyware logo

3 Phases: Get People, Product, and Profit Right

Larry Talley•Everyware•Mar 2023

Lessons by stage, from friends-and-family customers to hiring professionals once you reach $10M ARR

Product/Engineering
B2B Better logo

3 Signs You Need to Hire a CMO

Jason Bradwell•B2B Better•Mar 2023

Three triggers that signal the moment, plus how in-house and fractional CMOs compare

Sprinto logo

5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

Girish Redekar•Sprinto•Mar 2023

Sprinto on selling to larger customers: a sharper ICP, compliance features like ISO 27001 and RBAC, and a repeatable review loop

ebsta logo

5 Ways to Grow Revenue in 2023

Guy Rubin•ebsta•Mar 2023

Five revenue growth lessons drawn from analyzing 3M+ deals at ebsta

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7 SaaS Sales Techniques I Used to Help Grow Gong

Chris Orlob•pclub.io•Mar 2023

Four discovery questions that quantify pain and surface the compelling event, drawn from Chris Orlob's years selling at Gong

Airmeet logo

9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams

Mark Kilens•Airmeet•Mar 2023

People, process, and performance practices, from manager sessions and team rituals to V2MOMs

Marketing/Growth
DPOrganizer logo

9 Things you should ask your super customers to do for you

Alicia Hatt•DPOrganizer•Mar 2023

DPOrganizer's CEO on nine asks for your best customers, and what to offer them in return

Founder Strategy
UberSuggest logo

A New Way to Think About SaaS: How to Build a 9-Figure Company

Neil Patel•UberSuggest•Mar 2023

Why free software can anchor a growth strategy, how to convert visitors into revenue, and when to build or buy

vFairs logo

CEO Systems: 5 Lessons Learned

Muhammad Younas•vFairs•Mar 2023

Co-create with customers, validate fast with paid media, and land a first $100k deal: five CEO lessons from $0 to $20M ARR and beyond

Marketing/Growth
Chili Piper logo

Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries

Nicolas Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Mar 2023

Chili Piper's co-CEO on $60M in secondaries, layoffs and the return to cash-positive

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Customer Empathy

Aleksandr Yampolskiy•Security Scorecard•Mar 2023

Customer obsession in practice: jobs to be done, a five-by-five-by-five framework, and what SecurityScorecard learned from bad decisions

Product/Engineering
LCPTracker logo

Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

Mark Douglas•LCPTracker•Mar 2023

Nine operating practices across culture, strategy, and customer value, from mission to financial model

Founder Strategy
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Doing more with less

Anna King•Mesh Payments•Mar 2023

The CFO tech stack, the productivity killers that eat up to 20 days, and KPIs that go beyond the usual finance metrics

Founder Strategy
CB Insights logo

Don't do these 68 things in your SaaS company

Anand Sanwal•CB Insights•Mar 2023

CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal's list of 68 mistakes that hold SaaS growth back

Founder Strategy
Simplero logo

Emotion is a superpower

Calvin Correli•Simplero•Mar 2023

Calvin Correli of Simplero on turning fear and a victim mindset into honest storytelling, taking revenue from $200K to $2.2M

Mighty Startup logo

Financial habits of the best performing startups

Andrew Gauthier•Mighty Startup•Mar 2023

A practical look at initial modeling, 30-to-90-day budgeting, variance analysis and KPIs like the Rule of 40

YouCanBookMe logo

Fireside chat with Bridget Harris and Alex Theuma - How to take care of business: 5 lessons in bootstrapping to $5m ARR

Bridget Harris•YouCanBookMe•Mar 2023•Watch video & transcript

Early capital constraints, team culture, and ownership decisions, plus why to understand investor incentives first

Cognism logo

Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism

James Isilay•Cognism•Mar 2023

M&A as a growth strategy to $5M ARR, and the numbers behind doubling from $50M to $100M

Cleeng logo

From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR

Gilles Domartini•Cleeng•Mar 2023

A 5M euro raise in 2018 pushed Cleeng toward bankruptcy by 2019; Gilles Domartini explains the bootstrapped reset that followed

Founder Strategy
Testimonial.to logo

Helping a bootstrapped founder go from Twitter only to omni-channel marketing

Guillaume Bardet•Testimonial.to•Mar 2023

Cold, warm and social outreach, content at scale and product-led growth tactics used to build Testimonial.to past $1M ARR

Remote logo

How a $3 billion company leads fully remote teams

Alanna Brown•Remote•Mar 2023

Remote's five values, async-first meeting rules, and a culture of documentation

Marketing/Growth
Streamline Health logo

How I built $5+m ARR Software Business

Jawad Shaikh•Streamline Health•Mar 2023

From a services business to $5M+ ARR in software, told by Streamline Health's Chief Strategic Officer

AudiencePlus logo

How I Built a Media Company (within Gainsight)

Anthony Kennada•AudiencePlus•Mar 2023

A media arm inside Gainsight that built a $1B brand, told by AudiencePlus CEO Anthony Kennada

Issuu logo

How I got Issuu to profitability the first time in 2016

Joe Hyrkin•Issuu•Mar 2023

Issuu's 'ProGro' mindset, pricing and restructuring decisions, and how the strategy was shared company-wide

Founder Strategy
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How I Helped Rippling Hire Their First 5 CSM's after $45m Series A

Sara Roberts•Bayview Talent•Mar 2023

Who to hire, how to source and message candidates, and why to close early, drawn from building CSM teams at Rippling and Gorgias

Wing Assistant logo

How I scaled from $1M to $11M

Roland Polzin•Wing Assistant•Mar 2023

Wing Assistant's Founder & CMO on the marketing analytics behind the jump

CyberSmart logo

How I raised a $15m Series B in a downturn

Jamie Akhtar•CyberSmart•Mar 2023

Raising a $15M Series B while talking to hundreds of VCs: choosing the right match, closing the deal and allocating the funds

Founder Strategy
Vouris logo

How I use sales data to increase revenue

Kyle Vamvouris•Vouris•Mar 2023

Vouris CEO Kyle Vamvouris on using sales data to grow revenue with the reps you already have

PAR Technology Corp. logo

How I’m transforming a $1b+ publicly traded company into SaaS

Savneet Singh•PAR Technology Corp.•Mar 2023

PAR Technology's CEO on why a public company chose SaaS, and how revenue mix and capital allocation support the shift

Innovatemap logo

How Innovatemap enabled their clients to raise more than $1B in capital

Christian Beck•Innovatemap•Mar 2023

Invest in the product, keep selling the vision, and see how Authenticx raised its valuation 50x

PandaDoc logo

How PandaDoc Uses CI to Manage 800 Product Updates Per Month

Serge Barysiuk•PandaDoc•Mar 2023

Both sides of continuous integration, plus a four-stage learning cycle from early adopters to scale

Product/Engineering
Blackthorn logo

How I Bootstrapped to $20m By Acquiring Competitors, Increasing Price, and Optimizing Our Org Chart

Chris Federspiel•Blackthorn•Mar 2023

Launched in 2018 with no VC and 100% founder equity: the acquisitions, pricing and org design behind it

Founder Strategy
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How to build foundational marketing

Alison Murdock•Trusted CMO•Mar 2023

Trusted CMO's founder on the marketing foundations needed to grow from $200K to $2M

Dealpad logo

How to consistently win 7-figure software sales deals

Adam Baker•Dealpad•Mar 2023

Five deal-killing mistakes, from shallow problem discovery to demoing too early, and how to qualify for executive sponsorship

Sales
Crystal logo

How to Convince High-Performers to Take a Pay Cut

Drew D’Agostino•Crystal•Mar 2023

A founder-led recruiting approach: why high performers join startups, the 4-year tour of duty, and keeping alumni as allies

Founder Strategy
OpenView logo

How to Grow Faster with $0 CAC

Kyle Poyar•OpenView•Mar 2023

OpenView's Kyle Poyar on product-led growth in its new era

MetaData logo

How to recession-proof your SaaS

Gil Allouche•MetaData•Mar 2023

How Metadata went from $2M to $12M ARR, nearly ran out of money, and adapted from hypergrowth to a down market with PLG

Founder Strategy
vFairs logo

How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine

Michael Burns•vFairs•Mar 2023

A diagnose, implement, optimize approach that finds data, strategy and process gaps in your sales playbook, from vFairs' CEO

Sales
Luxlock logo

How to upsell discounted customers

Casey Golden•Luxlock•Mar 2023

A Luxlock tactic for growing MRR 10x from customers who joined at a discount

Sales
BackBlaze logo

How We Bootstrapped Backblaze from $0 to IPO

Gleb Budman•BackBlaze•Mar 2023

From finding your why to ringing the bell: how Backblaze decided, prepared, and executed its IPO

Founder Strategy
Time Doctor logo

How we bootstrapped to $20m ARR

Liam Martin•Time Doctor•Mar 2023

Time Doctor co-founder Liam Martin on reaching $20M ARR with asynchronous work

Tally logo

How We Bootstrapped our Typeform Competitor to $50k MRR

Marie Martens•Tally•Mar 2023

How Tally pivoted during COVID, launched on Product Hunt, and scaled support, engineering, and marketing

SalesScreen logo

How We Built a Culture To Drive Efficiency, $8m ARR

Sindre Haaland•SalesScreen•Mar 2023

SalesScreen's CEO on the culture that produced $150K in ARR per employee at $8M ARR

Founder Strategy
GetAccept logo

How we built a successful sales team

Samir Smajic•GetAccept•Mar 2023

Three phases from $0 to $50M ARR, leading versus lagging KPIs, and how to secure your sales hiring process

Sales
Chatdesk logo

How We Grew ARR 3X

Aneto Okonkwo•Chatdesk•Mar 2023

What to upsell, how to get a foot in the door, and why bundling pays off with existing customers

Sales
Surfer SEO logo

How we grew to $15M in Revenue

Lucjan Suski•Surfer SEO•Mar 2023

Tactics that wasted time, and the odd ones that worked: a 500K WAU Chrome extension and a Jasper partnership

Insight Partners logo

How We Help ScaleUps Measure Efficient Growth

Jeremey Donovan•Insight Partners•Mar 2023

Narrow your ICP and fill pipeline to grow; raise quotas and span of control to run efficiently

Whale Boss logo

How We Hit $30M ARR

Ryan Staley•Whale Boss•Mar 2023

The adaptive market engine, enterprise sales OS, and event-led growth, plus podcast and referral plays

Marketing/Growth
Trust Keith logo

How we pivoted our customer experience map

Rory Codrington•Trust Keith•Mar 2023

Map inputs and outputs to find margin leaks, then monitor the levers monthly and align your team

Dingus and Zazzy logo

How we scaled from zero to 140+ employees

Becca Kay•Dingus and Zazzy•Mar 2023

A worldwide hiring model that drew up to 400 applications a day, plus retention, client and incentive lessons from Dingus and Zazzy

Founder Strategy
Chili Piper logo

How We Used Brand Building To Hit $25m in ARR

Alina Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Mar 2023

Chili Piper's co-CEO on how the team measures the impact of its brand investment

Founder Strategy
N.Rich logo

How to boost SDR productivity by 320%

Markus Stahlberg•N.Rich•Mar 2023

N.Rich's CEO on using intent data to lift SDR output by 320%

Sales
Cledara logo

How We Used the 4 P's to Thrive in a Downturn

Cristina Vila•Cledara•Mar 2023

Cledara's founder on the 4 P's framework she used to market through a downturn and close a $20M Series A

Marketing/Growth
Regroup logo

I bootstrapped 2 times and raised VC once

Joe DiPasquale•Regroup•Mar 2023

Pros and cons of each path, a way to test whether VC is an option for you, and what to do if neither fits

Founder Strategy
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I’m a fangirl for your SaaS business

Mariya Delano•Kalyna Marketing•Mar 2023

How to find, nurture, and empower your biggest fans, with Notion as the example

Paddle logo

Learnings from 35.7K SaaS companies

Tripp Brockway•Paddle•Mar 2023

Recession-proofing lessons drawn from Paddle's data on 35.7K SaaS companies

Sales
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Lessons From $1bn in Exits

Thomas Smale•FE International•Mar 2023

A behind-the-scenes look at the ThriveCart exit, from FE International's CEO

Founder Strategy
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Masters of Debt: How I bought a $5m SaaS Company Using Debt

Brad Miller•AwarenessTech•Mar 2023

Finding a seller who would accept under 1x revenue, funding the purchase with debt, and shifting perpetual licenses to recurring fees

Founder Strategy
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Partnerships helped us scale to $10m+

Michał Suski•Surfer SEO•Mar 2023

Lessons from Surfer SEO's partnership strategy, shared by Head of Innovation Michał Suski

Marketing/Growth
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Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times

Chris Federspiel•Blackthorn•Mar 2023•Watch video & transcript

Blackthorn's CEO on dropping unclear products, buying instead of building, defining an ICP and selling a clear customer benefit

Founder Strategy
Paddle logo

Pricing and monetization in a downturn

Stephen Ngo•Paddle•Mar 2023

Set up a pricing committee, define value metrics and packaging, then apply pricing and localization tactics

Product/Engineering
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Product vs. Engineering

Nikita Gupta•Symba•Mar 2023

Why product and engineering drifted apart at Symba, four hard lessons, and how a 6-month roadmap rebuilt alignment

Product/Engineering
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Profitable Growth is sexy again

Ken Hoppe•Modigie•Mar 2023

How we hit $1.7M profitably with only 6 FTEs and plans to scale profitably by 5x YoY

Founder Strategy
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Reduce Your Employee ‘Burn Rate’ to Improve Your Startup’s Burn Rate

Sowmya Murthy•Seven Lakes Technologies•Mar 2023

Five retention lessons from three pivots at Seven Lakes: finding organic talent, preventing burnout, normalizing emotional hygiene

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SaaS Founder Confessionals

Ben Murray•SaaSCFO•Mar 2023

Lessons from raising $500M, shared by SaaSCFO founder Ben Murray

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SaaS SEO Shortcuts That Drive $10M+ ARR

Eric Siu•Single Grain•Mar 2023

How Single Grain drove 20 million visits, why a media moat matters, and how to invest in growth channels with an SEO lens

Marketing/Growth
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SaaS Storytelling: How I generated 50+ demo requests

Charles Dairo•Beezop•Mar 2023

The 5-step product story framework behind Beezop's launch, with the results and 6 lessons learned

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Scale Your SaaS Startup to $5m

Dan Martell•SaaS Academy•Mar 2023

Three founder mistakes, the pain line and the 1-3-1 rule from Dan Martell's experience exiting 3 SaaS companies

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Series-A ready marketing

Raffi Salama•Passion Fruit•Mar 2023

Ten commandments for Series A marketing, from CFO collaboration and price increases to cohort analysis

SkyHive logo

Skills Agility as a Point of Competitive Differentiation for SaaS Companies

Alison Lands•SkyHive•Mar 2023

A strategy view from SkyHive on skills agility as a differentiator for SaaS companies in 2023

Expandi logo

Sniper Targeting: Tactics your competition doesn’t know about

Stefan Smulders•Expandi•Mar 2023

LinkedIn targeting tactics from Expandi that hold up despite the 2021 platform changes

Marketing/Growth
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Startup to $100Mn Proficorn

Rajesh Jain•Netcore Cloud•Mar 2023

Building an enduring, bootstrapped, profitable and valuable SaaS business

Founder Strategy
Mode logo

The 25 problems you don’t need to solve

Derek Steer•Mode•Mar 2023

Why a CEO with 25 priorities stalls, and how Mode simplified by doing more of what already worked

Marketing/Growth
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The 5 levels of great customer analytics experience

Karel Callens•Luzmo•Mar 2023

Five levels of client-facing analytics, from tailored basics to embedded, actionable, and self-serve

Customer Success
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The MAP Framework

Adrienne Barnes•Best Buyer Persona•Mar 2023

Find your way out of a growth stall in 6 weeks

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The Sales & Marketing Tech Stack

Phil Rader•SaaScend•Mar 2023

Sales and marketing tooling for each stage of growth, from $1M to $100M+ ARR, per SaaScend

Distro logo

There's no one right way to get to an 8 figure exit

Chad Ingram•Distro•Mar 2023

Lessons across product, finance, and people: value-driven MVPs, balancing debt and equity, growth-based hiring

Collect logo

Tips for Creating a $1m Customer Onboarding Experience

Alex Delivet•Collect•Mar 2023

Collect founder Alex Delivet shares the onboarding playbook behind a $1M customer experience

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Growing your business from single product to multi product

Yuryi Ferber•BRITech Global•Mar 2023

Going from 1 product to 7: partner first, buy later, segment carefully, and compound revenue

Product/Engineering
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Top 3 Growth Opportunities for Founders in 2023

Jeff Mains•Champion Leadership Group•Mar 2023

The YES! Box, going small for 10x more business, irresistible offers, and strategic partnerships

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Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4

Sanjeev Kalyanaraman•codemantra•Mar 2023

Benchmarks to hit: 20%+ TAM growth, 50%+ gross profit, 95%+ GRR, and 110%+ NRR

Founder Strategy
Mode logo

Using data to find product-market fit

Benn Stancil•Mode•Mar 2023

Brainstorm metrics, spot when you are ready to scale, and see what product-market fit looks like in the data

Product/Engineering
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Want To Be Acquired?

Luke Cooper•Latimer VC•Mar 2023

Get through the rocky start with culture intact, then push past product-market fit toward 100% retention

Offsite logo

What we've learned from spending $4,000,000

Jared Kleinert•Offsite•Mar 2023

Offsite's CEO on what $4M of client offsite spending taught him about running team retreats

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Why Tiktok is the Best Marketing Channel

James Ski•Cognism•Mar 2023

Why video matters, how to reach 100,000 followers, and tactics like going live for a 9am to 5pm audience

Marketing/Growth
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Why Velocity is the #1 Sustainable Advantage

Ariel Diaz•Vendr•Mar 2023

As funding, tools and barriers to entry ease, company velocity, OKRs and fast customer value become the lasting edge

Founder Strategy
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Why You Should Start Measuring Psychological Safety Today

Susan Hunt Stevens•WeSpire•Mar 2023

WeSpire's founder on what measuring psychological safety taught the team at $4M ARR

Founder Strategy
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Create a Compelling Product Roadmap

Heather O'Neill•Pixels for Humans•Mar 2023

A product roadmap talk from Pixels for Humans' Strategic Partner and CEO Heather O'Neill

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How I built 3 SaaS companies to $20m ARR

Adam Baker•Dealpad•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A Customer Validation Framework, mutual action plans and a LinkedIn playbook behind 3,600% more engagement, from Dealpad's CEO

Sales
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Cold Call Machine: 30k Calls per week, $3.8m Revenue

Andre Cvijovic•Referrizer•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A commission-only outbound model that books 100 demos a day, plus how Referrizer hires, tracks, and coaches callers

Marketing/Growth
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Our Competitors Raised $100m

Ari Salafia•Taxtaker•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

TaxTaker's 5-part customer journey map, affiliate partnerships and product machine, built on just $1m raised

Founder Strategy
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Secret Playbook for Revenue Acceleration

Armando Biondi•Breadcrumbs•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Armando Biondi on growing to 750k monthly visitors, the 4 qualities of a strong lead and 3 KPIs worth tracking

Sales
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How we grew our revenue by 1700%

Becca Kay•Dingus and Zazzy•Sep 2022

Unconventional growth ideas, how to pick a financial partner who lets you be yourself, and the case for productized services

Founder Strategy
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Founder Net Worth Map

Ben Carpel•Galleon•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Revenue-based financing options compared, with tips on where to put the cash, who to rely on, and which terms to watch

Founder Strategy
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The Simple PR Template We Used to Bootstrap to $1m in ARR

Ben Gabler•Rocket.Net•Sep 2022

A press-release template, a $50k domain-name bet and an MVP built in 72 days for under $30k

Marketing/Growth
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9 Do's and Don'ts of Raising Capital

Ben Murray•SaaSCFO•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A fractional CFO's playbook for forecasting, framing your numbers as a story and avoiding common pre-raise mistakes

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Masters of Debt: How I bought a $5m SaaS Company Using Debt, Grew to $20m

Brad Miller•AwarenessTech•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Buying a SaaS company with equity and bank debt, growing it through M&A, and managing it toward a sale

Founder Strategy
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How I Bootstrapped to $5m using profit sharing and open salaries to motivate the team

Bridget Harris•YouCanBookMe•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A free Excel model for profit sharing across 10 employees, an 8-page team explainer and open salaries

Founder Strategy
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How I bootstrapped video management SaaS to over $10m ARR

Chad Lakin•Shootsta•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why subscription and annual upfront agreements matter, how to avoid the services trap, and what a minimum viable team looks like

Product/Engineering
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How we are using ERP partners to create a billion dollar company

Charlie Fritsch•Hotel Investor Apps•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

OEM versus VAR partnerships, the royalty and ownership terms to negotiate, and how an ERP shortened Hotel Investor Apps' time to market

Sales
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How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Chris Brisson•SalesMessage•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

What a simple question revealed about product-market fit, how to pivot from a product nobody wants, and tripling ARPU in under 6 months

Product/Engineering
Clickup logo

How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m

Chris Cunningham•Clickup•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

From a failed side product to bootstrapped growth: fast shipping, SEO-led acquisition and competitor research

Marketing/Growth
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How to 5x Your Bookings

Chris Marentis•Surefirelocal•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Surefire Local's shift from managed services to SaaS, with a repeatable transactional sales motion, KPI discipline and timed debt capital

Marketing/Growth
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High Volume, Low ARPU Sales Playbook

Chris Vandersluis•Timecontrol•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Referenceable customers and a 14-page process: how TimeControl stays profitable with the founder holding 100% of equity

Founder Strategy
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How I bootstrapped to $20m in 5 years

Cody McLain•SupportNinja•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Tacit knowledge, easy-to-update process automation and a broader view of what to outsource, from SupportNinja's founder

Founder Strategy
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Our content supported SaaS business hit $20m in SaaS ARR in 4 years

Craig Fuller•FreightWaves•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

The "Media Moat" model: content builds demand, data subscriptions monetize it, and CAC goes negative

Marketing/Growth
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How I Scaled a $1M client to $40M

Damian Thompson•Revteam•Sep 2022

Why "best practice" solves the right problems the wrong way, plus a step-by-step hiring process for revenue teams

Sales
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The Closers M&A Playbook: How I Sold Grasshopper for $100m+

David Hauser•Grasshopper•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

What Grasshopper's founder checks when buying companies: addressable market, ROAS and 11 metrics that raise your exit value

Founder Strategy
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Life After Freemium: How we killed our business model

Drew D’Agostino•Crystal•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why self-service freemium capped LTV at Crystal, and how its PLG funnel now feeds B2B sales at about 4x LTV

Marketing/Growth
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How I moved retention from 74% to 107%

Erica Olsen•OnStrategy•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why a DIY SaaS product hit a retention ceiling, and how embedding services into a blended model broke through

Founder Strategy
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How Ramp Raised $800m in 18 Months

Geoff Charles•Ramp•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Ramp's operating model: single-threaded teams, fast release cycles, automated feedback, and OKRs, shared by its head of product

Product/Engineering
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Scaling enterprise sales with digital transformation for a niche industry

George Elfond•Rallyware•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Niche messaging, quantified ROI and customer proof for enterprise sales, plus operating through the war in Ukraine

Founder Strategy
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How to Survive Cash Death and Grow 600% in 2yrs

Gil Allouche•MetaData•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

The defensive moves, receivables financing, and AE incentives that took Metadata from near cash death to a $40M Series B

Founder Strategy
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9 Do's and Dont's of Scaling a SaaS Business to $50m+ in ARR

Godard Abel•G2•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Three paths to growth, three talent principles and the lessons G2's founder borrowed from the best

Founder Strategy
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The Capital Efficient Founder

Henry Schuck•ZoomInfo•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How ZoomInfo's CEO structured a secondary, used debt without giving up upside and managed on operating metrics before IPO

Founder Strategy
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How to incentivize your team with profit sharing

Bridget Harris•YouCanBookMe•Sep 2022

Bridget Harris of YouCanBookMe walks through the profit stack behind the profit-sharing plan she launched at a $3m ARR SaaS company

Founder Strategy
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How I grew my GovTech SaaS $50k to $350k

Ibrahim Aissam•Ecourtdate•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How eCourtDate won public bids, expanded contracts, and adapted referrals and SEO to the government market

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Acquisition Master: How we hit $30m Revenue

James Isilay•Cognism•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Hiring international developers, building an outbound sales team and the LOI Cognism used to buy PLG rival Kaspr

Founder Strategy
CyberSmart logo

How I hit $3m in ARR

Jamie Akhtar•CyberSmart•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why scaling is less linear than it looks, plus product-market fit, fundraising readiness and knowing your investor

Founder Strategy
Fineos logo

How we pivoted to a $90m+ Exit

Jason Andrew•Fineos•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Following the cash on a first pivot, picking who to imitate and the market research behind Limelight Health's exit

Founder Strategy
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How we Bootstrapped to $10m in ARR with 140% NDR

Jay Hakami•Skypad•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Skypad's CEO on turning a setback into a retailer opportunity, setting sales incentives and tracking metrics that drive 140% NDR

Founder Strategy
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The Tenfold Turnaround Story: From $5m ARR, Flat, Burning $1m per Month to 100% YoY Growth

Jeff Cotten•Tenfold•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

What drove $1M a month of burn, how Tenfold got closer to breakeven in 12 months, and what the buyer valued at exit

Getcredo logo

How I Generated $250M In Leads

John Doherty•Getcredo•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Long-term organic traffic, simpler forms and fast follow-up: the three levers behind a one-person lead engine

SmartSuite logo

How I Exited For $200m

Jon Darbyshire•SmartSuite•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A sale to EMC, 400+ investments as an advisor, and the new market that pulled him back in with $12.5M

Founder Strategy
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How we used Customer Support to build $9m Bootstrapped

Jonathan Kazarian•Accelevents•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why Accelevents made customer experience its main feature: 'supported PLG' drove 25% of new business

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How being bootstrapped saved us

Jonathan Fishbeck•EstateSpace•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How a services business reset into a $1M SaaS pivot, and how $4.38M of debt was converted into 8.5% equity

Founder Strategy
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How I scaled systems and processes to grow from 1 to 50 employees

Karsten Rendemann•Cookie Information•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

An MVP built with contractors, automated customer success, and why he took a secondary at a $50M valuation while profitable

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4 Capital Allocation Mistakes Smart SaaS Founders Avoid

Kevin Houston•Founderpath•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Multi-year contract costs, why working capital can beat cash, and how to blend capital sources, from a lender who has underwritten $250M

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Bootstrapped to $5m

Mark Abbott•Ninety.io•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

The five phases of a business operating system, how community drove growth, and the metrics investors cared about

Marketing/Growth
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Team Retreat Playbook: What we spent on our last retreat

Massimo Arrigoni•Beefree•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Beefree CEO Massimo Arrigoni on budgeting a remote team retreat, bootstrapping with credit, and what freemium taught them

Founder Strategy
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$100m Deck Builder

Matt Prados•Review Wave•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

First 100, 1,000 and 3,000 customers, handling churn, and lessons on term sheets and LOIs from Review Wave

Founder Strategy
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9 mistakes sales reps make when the only remaining activity is to sign the contract

Mauricio Kigiela•Docsales•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How DocSales found hidden churn by splitting customers into cohorts, mapped journeys, and aligned every team on shared KPIs

Sales
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How We Stay Patiently Bootstrapped While Competitors Raise $100m+

Michael Cooney•WhatConverts•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why WhatConverts stayed bootstrapped: fast support, public revenue storytelling and an agency focus that reached 40,000 companies

Marketing/Growth
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Professional Services Playbook

Michael Maximoff•Folderly Inc•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How Folderly pre-sold $100K of services, structured its cap table, and spun out a SaaS without raising money

Founder Strategy
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6 Tactics We Used to Go From Bootstrapped to Unicorn

Mikita Mikado•PandaDoc•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

PandaDoc's operating framework, communication habits for teams from 0 to 750 people, and the KPIs behind a $1B valuation

Founder Strategy
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How we used System-Driven Word of Mouth to Break $30m Revenue

Muhammad Younas•vFairs•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

The inbound funnel, customer reference squad, and review email copy behind vFairs' growth from $1.7M to $30M+

Marketing/Growth
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How to Turn a $2m Niche Solution Into a $500m+ Brand New Category

Nicolas Vandenberghe•Chili Piper•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

From a sales-team problem to a new category: paid early customers, a $20k first deal and a $33m secondary

Founder Strategy
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How I built a team that was as invested emotionally as me

Nina Alag Suri•X0PA AI•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

An early option and incentive pool, mission-led hiring and the non-financial side of motivation at X0PA

Founder Strategy
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Founder First PE Playbook

Paroon Chadha•Onboardmeetings•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

OnBoard from $15M bootstrapped revenue to a $100M PE raise: a clean cap table, deal-ready unit economics and the eScribe deal

Founder Strategy
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Building Culture, Processes, and Accountability as Remote Team

Patrick Shaw•RapidFunnel•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Nine ideas and systems for remote culture, from recurring collaboration to weekly accountability and recognition

Founder Strategy
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How We Bootstrapped to $5m in 5 years

Pavel Doležal•Keboola•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Partner ecosystems, community investment and financing as a tool: Keboola's approach to building a data platform

Marketing/Growth
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Cheat Code: I learned what SaaS to build for dentists by building a $7m agency first

Rajeev Bhatia•BPKTech•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How to find a pilot customer, upsell agency clients into SaaS, and avoid the early mistakes Rajeev made

Founder Strategy
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How I Raised $60m Then Fumbled a $1b Exit

Rami Essaid•Finmark•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Analyst relations, event marketing, buyer relationships and the three mistakes that cost a $1B exit

Founder Strategy
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My $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Robert Warner•Ppc Ad Lab•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A Fiverr-built product, partner promotions and customer webinars: the playbook behind PPC Ad Lab's accidental SaaS

Marketing/Growth
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We bootstrapped to $60k MRR with no product team

Rory Codrington•Trust Keith•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How unbiased customer research, verbal feedback loops, and margin discipline shaped Trust Keith's MVP, and its ACV rise from $3K to $28K

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How we acquired a competitor for $40,000

Ryan O'Neil•Curate•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Setting a simple price, planning the customer migration and measuring cohort returns on a micro-acquisition

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How we got 5,000 on our beta SaaS waitlist

Sarah Hawley•GrowMotely•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Co-create with your audience, run a survey, and publish the findings: the pre-launch campaign behind Growmotely's waitlist

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How We Bootstrapped to $7.5m in Revenue

Scott Brandley•ShopperApproved•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Taking on rivals with 20x the headcount: a sharp USP, low churn, strong online reputation and strategic partnerships

Founder Strategy
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How Vroozi leveraged two internal hackathons last year to add $1M new ARR

Shaz Khan•Vroozi•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Hackathon rules, multiple awards and cross-sell ideas: how Vroozi runs internal hackathons to keep innovating

Marketing/Growth
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Free Customer Formula: How I grew Expandi from $0 to $7m in 20 months

Stefan Smulders•Expandi•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A pre-launch outreach plan, micro-influencers and customer communities, including how Expandi got its first 150 beta users

Marketing/Growth
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How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth

Steve Benson•Verblio•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

How Verblio recruited its first 10 writers and built a 40-person team on a small budget by hiring for traits and values

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How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Steve Benson•Badger Maps•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Six loans totaling $2.25m from Founderpath, and the prepayment and draw fees to check before you borrow

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The $100m Pendo Story

Todd Olson•Pendo•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Pendo's CEO on flying out to close an early deal, interviewing nearly every hire and the CSM ratios behind $100M ARR

Product/Engineering
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How we used a $1 Guarantee to Break $75k MRR

Travis Chappell•Guestio•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

The $1 offer structure, three upsells that lifted order value to $100, and why instant CAC payback matters

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How We Hit $30m in ARR Bootstrapped

Vivek Bhaskaran•QuestionPro•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Why QuestionPro stays frugal without being foolish, how it acquires smarter people, and what worked from $0 to $1M

Founder Strategy
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How we use LinkedIn to get 61 inbound 5-figure opportunities in the first year

Vladimir Blagojevic•Fullfunnel.Io•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

Five audiences to grow, a repeatable content process and the conversation starters behind a 40%+ response rate

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Unlocking B2B Influencer Marketing

Zack Oates•Ovation•Sep 2022•Watch video & transcript

A budget playbook for B2B influencer marketing: get accepted by your niche, run a podcast, win at trade shows