Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

One of the key strategies for very early stage companies, for new product developers, or lean practitioners, is the concept of the “Minimum Viable Product.” It’s a very customer centric approach in launching new products. It seeks to minimize the risk to the company by introducing a product with just enough functionality to gain interest, then to learn from that, quickly improving and enhancing the product.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

So I caught up the other day with the CTO of a leading SaaS company with tens of thousands of customers, growing quickly. AI is all over their homepage and website and comms. I asked him about a particular use case for AI, and his answer shocked me a bit: Honestly, our AI is basically still in beta. Its rolled out to about a tenth of the customers we plan to, and the uses cases are pretty simple today.

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Eliminate Your Competition

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Discovery questions are a cornerstone of the business-to-business (B2B) sales process. Unlike transactional sales, where decisions are often straightforward and impulsive, B2B sales involve complex decision-making, multiple stakeholders, and a longer sales cycle. Thus, the discovery phase is crucial for understanding the prospect’s needs, challenges, and goals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Evaluate Startups for Seed Investments? Here are our criteria for SaaStrFund.com : Are both the CEO and CTO insanely good? Better than I was as a founder? Are they committed to this market and journey for a decade or more? It takes being a bit crazy. Do they just really, really know their stuff? Is the early growth at least in top 10% range?

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Salesfolks

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It’s been a great year for SaaStr videos and podcasts. We’re on the top 1% on Spotify overall and just added video there, and our YouTube has become a great stream of the best of the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI. So to catch-up over the holidays, here are The Top 10 Videos of the Year: #1. How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel at SaaStr Annual #2.

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