Startup Resources, A List of What is Important
Category | Title | Source | URL |
Business | 3 Must-Read Decks for SaaS Companies | LinkedIn SlideShare | https://blog.slideshare.net/2015/01/09/how-to-master-saas-and-make-a-profit/ |
Business | The Biggest B2C2B Company in the World | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Business | Live Chat Was Great But Now It’s History | Intercom | |
Business | 5 Things Amy Hoy Wishes Somebody Told Her Before She Started Her SaaS Business | Stacking the Bricks | https://unicornfree.com/2016/5-things-i-wish-id-known-before-founding-saas |
Business | Even Unicorns Die Too [New T-Shirt Alert] | ||
Business | What it's like buying a $128k side project | Codetree | http://blog.codetree.com/articles/what-its-like-buying-a-128k-side-project.html |
Business | The Rise of All-In-One SaaS | DocSend | |
Business | 6 Things To Expect When Your Company Hits 100 People | Medium | https://medium.com/@christinetsai/6-things-to-expect-when-your-company-hits-100-people-c9de032f29d5 |
Business | Scale-up Leadership Lessons Brian Halligan Learned Over 9 Years as HubSpot’s CEO | ||
Business | How to Measure and Understand SaaS Product/Market Fit Qualitatively | LinkedIn SlideShare | http://www.slideshare.net/hiten1/measuring-understanding-productmarket-fit-qualitatively |
Business | The Most Common (Bad) Arguments Against Remote Work | Groove | |
Business | How to Compete in SaaS Today and for the Future | ||
Business | The Emotional Side of Business | ||
Business | SaaStr Annual 2016: From Impossible to Inevitable | Eventbrite | |
Business | 8 critical moments of every successful SaaS company | Quora | |
Business | In Defense of the Deck | Bill Gurley | http://abovethecrowd.stfi.re/2015/07/07/in-defense-of-the-deck/?sf=kzavz |
Business | The Food Delivery Open Research Study | ||
Business | "I", "We" and "You" | Typepad | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/02/i-we-and-you.html |
Business | Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing | David Skok | |
Business | The Current State of Venture Capital | LinkedIn SlideShare | http://www.slideshare.net/msuster/upfront-vc-analysis-2016/9-IPO_exits_are_down_32 |
Business | Management & Power | Cap Watkins | |
Business | 20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions | Business Insider | http://uk.businessinsider.stfi.re/cognitive-biases-that-affect-decisions-2015-8?r=US&IR=T&sf=gazvgp |
Business | Top 10 Companies Winning at Remote Work Culture and Their Secrets | http://blog.cloudpeeps.com/top-10-companies-winning-at-remote-work-culture/ | |
Business | Morale Over a Project Lifecycle | Medium | http://medium.stfi.re/@iano/moral-over-a-project-lifecycle-975792b54c12?sf=djenw |
Business | How Companies Can Avoid the Innovator’s Dilemma | Medium | https://medium.com/backchannel/how-companies-can-avoid-the-innovator-s-dilemma-3f980ae533a7 |
Business | How to Use Simple Checklists to Boost Efficiency and Reduce Mistakes | Zapier | http://zapier.stfi.re/blog/the-checklist-manifesto/?sf=neylb |
Business | Your Org Is a Product | Cap Watkins | http://blog.capwatkins.stfi.re/your-org-is-a-product?sf=exwrd |
Business | From Social Networks To Market Networks | TechCrunch | http://techcrunch.stfi.re/2015/06/27/from-social-to-market-networks/?sf=ydlvg |
Business | San Francisco is worth the rent | Clearbit | http://blog.clearbit.com/why-location-still-matters-even-in-the-globalized-world-of-tech/ |
Business | The Distributed Team's Guide to Slack | Chameleon | |
Business | The Increasing Growth Rates of SaaS Companies | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Business | Apple's Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) Model | Quora | http://www.quora.com/How-well-does-Apples-Directly-Responsible-Individual-DRI-model-work-in-practice |
Business | 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: Lessons Learned | Ben Casnocha | |
Business | Snapchat CEO's Intelligent Business Email | Business Insider | http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegels-email-memo-2014-12 |
Business | Lessons from Inside Six Startup Exits | Medium | https://medium.com/@saraannet/lessons-from-inside-six-startup-exits-5973561115f8 |
Business | Challenge Coins and Company Credits | https://blog.readme.io/developing-company-culture-as-a-startup/ | |
Business | 13 Daily Activities That Will Double the Size of Your Personal Brand in 6 Months or Less | Quick Sprout | |
Business | How Data-Savvy Are SaaS Companies? | RJMetrics | https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2016/02/22/how-data-savvy-are-saas-companies/ |
Business | How to Build a Process for Modeling SaaS CAC and LTV | Price Intelligently | http://blog.profitwell.com/saas-ltv-cac-metrics-modeling-process |
Business | Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous... for all involved | Bill Gurley | |
Business | How To Manage Developers When You're A Non-Tech Founder | Gigster | https://gigster.com/blog/how-to-manage-developers-when-youre-a-non-tech-founder/ |
Business | When Culture Sets | Medium | |
Business | Why SaaS Consolidation is Not Happening | Medium | https://medium.com/@villispeaks/why-saas-consolidation-is-not-happening-2b9b722e0250 |
Business | The Startup Pivot Pyramid | 500 Startups | |
Business | A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Elon Musk About Business and Investing | ||
Business | Why The LinkedIn Acquisition is So Important to SaaS | SaaStr | https://www.saastr.com/why-the-linkedin-acquisition-is-so-important-to-saas/ |
Business | Inbound HR: Brian Halligan | YouTube | |
Business | A Few Thoughts About the Future of SaaS (And What to Do About It) | Drip | https://www.getdrip.com/blog/tips-and-tactics/future-of-saas/ |
Business | Special Note: | UserOnboard | |
Marketing | Never Run Out of Blog Post Ideas Again: 25 Resources for Content Marketers | ||
Marketing | 7 Lessons from How HubSpot Executes a Massive Product Launch | Appcues | http://appcues.com/blog/7-lessons-from-how-hubspot-executes-a-massive-product-launch/ |
Marketing | Why Buffer Can't Stop Fiddling With Their Greatest Marketing Asset | Buffer | |
Marketing | Everyone In SaaS Is Using Buyer Personas Incorrectly | Price Intelligently | http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/everyone-in-saas-is-using-buyer-personas-incorrectly |
Marketing | The Ultimate List of Product Hunt Collections for Marketers | Buffer | |
Marketing | How the Law of the Double-Peak Affects Social Media Marketing | Buffer | |
Marketing | Email Copy From Great Companies | ||
Marketing | The First Law of Content Marketing | ||
Marketing | How to do Content Marketing if You’re Dead Broke and Bad at Writing | Neil Patel | http://neilpatel.com/2016/01/10/how-to-do-content-marketing-if-youre-dead-broke-and-bad-at-writing/ |
Marketing | 5 Stats That Show The Power Of Marketing To Your Existing Customers | Drift | |
Marketing | Topics Over Keywords: An SEO-Driven Approach To Content Marketing | http://www.anumhussain.com/presentations/topics-over-keywords | |
Marketing | Should You Outsource Content Marketing? 11 Questions to Consider | Quick Sprout | |
Marketing | Comprehensive Guide to Email Analytics | http://www.business.com/email-marketing/analyze-this-the-comprehensive-guide-to-email-analytics/ | |
Marketing | How To Launch A Product: 7 Tips To Drive Demand | Drift | |
Marketing | How to Use Twitter for Business | LiveChat | https://www.livechatinc.com/blog/how-to-use-twitter-for-business/ |
Marketing | A Step-by-Step Guide To Hosting or Joining a Twitter Chat | Buffer | |
Marketing | A SaaS Marketing Plan for High Growth Companies | HubSpot | |
Marketing | 3 Stages to Better Home Pages | Help Scout | |
Marketing | The Hacker's Guide to Twitter User Acquisition | Austen Allred | http://www.austenallred.com/the-hackers-guide-to-the-first-1000-users-twitter/ |
Marketing | A Complete Content Audit and Spreadsheet Template | Buffer | |
Marketing | How to Create The Perfect Call to Action | Neil Patel | http://neilpatel.com/2015/08/22/how-to-create-the-perfect-call-to-action/ |
Marketing | Building a B2C2B Content Strategy | http://www.anumhussain.com/presentations/b2c2b-content-strategy | |
Marketing | How A Content Marketing "Home Run" Jump Started StatusPage.io | StatusPage | http://blog.statuspage.stfi.re/how-a-content-marketing-home-run-jump-started-our-company?sf=gazypl |
Marketing | What Makes Top Company Blogs So Successful? [New Data] | HubSpot | |
Marketing | How Marketing-Centric Design Wins Customers | Crew | |
Marketing | Why You Should Embrace Transparency Marketing | Peep Laja | |
Marketing | 7 Psychological Principles to Get More Engagement on Social Media | Quick Sprout | |
Marketing | What Analyzing 50 Brand Guides Taught Us About Building a Lasting Company | SketchDeck | http://sketchdeck.com/blog/what-analyzing-50-brand-guides-taught-us-about-building-a-lasting-company |
Marketing | How We Grew SaaS Inbound Traffic By 300% In 6 Months | ||
Marketing | Seven SaaS Content Marketing Lessons From 10 Years and 41,525,103 Website Visits | ||
Marketing | The Marketer's Guide to Surveying Users | Qualaroo | |
Marketing | How to Make Yourself Write an Entire Blog Article Every Single Day | Quick Sprout | |
Marketing | Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once & For All | NextView | |
Marketing | Special Offers on Popular SaaS Tools for Marketers | ||
Marketing | How to Track Content ROI: A Step-by-Step Guide | HubSpot | |
Marketing | Product Hunt vs. Hacker News vs. TechCrunch | Batch | https://batch.com/blog/start-up-launch-power-product-hunt-hacker-news-techcrunch/ |
Marketing | 7 Content Monetization Engines You Should Pay Attention to in 2015 | SEMrush | |
Marketing | 10 Most Costly SaaS Marketing Blunders I’ve Ever Made | Quick Sprout | http://www.quicksprout.com/2015/02/18/10-most-costly-marketing-blunders-ive-ever-made/ |
Marketing | How SaaS Marketing is Different from Every Other Type of Marketing | Kissmetrics | https://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-saas-marketing-is-different/ |
Marketing | How to Send Email Like a Pirate | Sendwithus | |
Marketing | Create a Winning Content Promotion Plan | BuzzStream | http://www.buzzstream.com/blog/content-promotion-campaign-plan.html |
Marketing | Jobs-To-Be-Done: The Product Marketing Framework Intercom Used to Reach $50M in ARR | Exponents | |
Marketing | 6 years ago today, they won their first customer... | Customer Thermometer | https://www.customerthermometer.com/news-press/getting-your-first-customer/ |
Marketing | You're Calculating CAC Wrong | Price Intelligently | |
Marketing | Why My Co-Founder Chooses to Focus on One Marketing Channel at a Time | Quick Sprout | https://www.quicksprout.com/2016/11/28/why-i-choose-to-focus-on-one-marketing-channel-at-a-time/ |
Marketing | How Psychology Can Help Generate More Clicks on Your Links | The Next Web | |
Marketing | How to Create a Content Marketing System That Runs on Autopilot | Quick Sprout | |
Marketing | A Step by Step DIY Guide to Get Press for Your Startup Without Spending a Penny | ||
Marketing | Build a Data-Driven Content Strategy by Yourself, for Free, in 1 Day | Unbounce | http://unbounce.com/content-marketing/data-driven-content-strategy-in-1-day/ |
Marketing | How Erica Kuhl Proved the ROI of Community at Salesforce | CMX | |
Sales | Best books or videos to get better at sales? | Y Combinator | |
Sales | Looking to Scale Your Sales? Seven Bullets to Dodge | First Round | http://firstround.com/article/Looking-to-Scale-Your-Sales-Seven-Bullets-to-Dodge |
Sales | How to Turn Your SaaS Lead Nurturing Efforts into Lead Optimization Wins | Crazy Egg | https://blog.crazyegg.com/2016/06/06/lead-optimization-wins/ |
Sales | When to Scale Sales for Your SaaS Startup | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Sales | How Design Impacts the Psychology of Sales | SketchDeck | http://sketchdeck.com/blog/how-design-impacts-the-psychology-of-sales |
Sales | Sales Tips For SaaS Businesses: 5 Lessons You Can Steal From Mark Roberge | Drift | |
Sales | The Life Of A Modern Sales Rep in 20 GIFs | Sales for Life | http://www.salesforlife.com/sales-inspiration/the-life-of-a-modern-sales-rep-in-20-gifs/ |
Sales | That Super-Successful VP of Sales. Great? Or Just Lucky? | SaaStr | http://www.saastr.com/that-super-successful-vp-of-sales-great-or-just-lucky/ |
Sales | Whale Hunting or Scale Hunting? | TinyLetter | http://tinyletter.com/ben/letters/whale-hunting-or-scale-hunting |
Sales | Startups Compete Against Background Noise | Diego Basch | https://diegobasch.com/startups-compete-against-background-noise |
Sales | Sales in an AI world: How human is your sales process? | http://blog.close.io/sales-in-an-ai-world-how-human-is-your-sales-process | |
Sales | How to go From 10 to 100 SaaS Customers | ||
Sales | Why Every SaaS Company Needs an Annual Plan | Price Intelligently | http://blog.profitwell.com/here-is-why-every-saas-company-needs-an-annual-plan |
Sales | Why GoToMeeting’s SaaS Playbook Doesn’t Work Today | Medium | https://medium.com/@johngreathouse/why-gotomeetings-saas-playbook-doesn-t-work-today-edd2acf937c5 |
Sales | 5 Ways to Use Content to Get More Sales | Quick Sprout | http://www.quicksprout.com/2015/12/28/5-ways-to-use-content-to-get-more-sales/ |
Sales | Email Prospecting Tips From A Former Spammer | Medium | https://medium.com/@TheKeithCarlson/email-prospecting-tips-from-a-former-spammer-e497cd0e62cf |
Sales | How to onboard a sales team in 4 weeks | ||
Sales | Systematizing Sales With Software And Processes | https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/sales_automation | |
Sales | The Equation that Governs Your Sales Team's Effectiveness | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Sales | Afraid Of Cold Calling? How To Fail Your Way To Fearlessness | ||
Sales | What Sales People Do In The Demo That Loses The Deal | A Sales Guy | http://asalesguy.com/2014/11/25/what-most-sales-people-do-in-the-demo-that-loses-the-deal/ |
Sales | 4 Sales Mistakes That Lead To High SaaS Churn | Sixteen Ventures | |
Sales | Don’t Forget the Services Revenue | SaaStr | http://saastr.com/2014/11/28/dont-forget-the-services-revenue/ |
Sales | How To Propose Annual Contracts To Your SaaS Customers [Phone Scripts And Email Templates] | http://blog.close.io/selling-contracts-in-saas-how-to-successfully-pitch-pre-paid-and-annual-deals | |
Sales | How to Persuade Customers to Convert on a High-Priced SaaS Product | Kissmetrics | |
Sales | Make Your Opportunity Easy To Socialize | Quora | http://onentrepreneurship.quora.com/Make-your-Opportunity-Easy-to-Socialize |
Sales | Illusions of scale: does 1 x 3 = 2, 3 or 4? | http://vcwithme.co/2016/03/22/illusions-of-scale-does-1-x-3-2-3-or-4/ | |
Sales | Control, or Be Controlled: Sales Forecasting Done Right | Andreessen Horowitz | |
Sales | How The Team At Drift Is Thinking About Pricing | Drift | |
Sales | Here are the Scripts for Sales Success — Emails, Calls and Demos That Close Deals | First Round | |
Sales | Why You Should Change Your SaaS Pricing Every 6 Months | Price Intelligently | |
Sales | Create a Competitive Sales Battle Card Using Social Proof | DocSend | |
Sales | Finding the Clues in Real-Time Sales Messages | Intercom | https://blog.intercom.io/finding-the-clues-in-sales-messages/ |
Sales | How to Sell Like Elon Musk | http://www.copygrad.stfi.re/2015/08/13/how-to-sell-like-elon-musk/?sf=rlyjj | |
Sales | When Should Your SaaS Startup Offer Professional Services | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Sales | Don’t Punish Your Old SaaS Trials and Former Customers | Phil Freo ❇️ | http://philfreo.stfi.re/blog/dont-punish-old-trials/?sf=zaxwb |
Sales | How to Deal With Churn in SaaS | The Startup Chat | |
Sales | The Top 8 Mistakes Jason Lemkin Made In His First 18 Months As a VC Partner | SaaStr | http://www.saastr.stfi.re/the-top-5-mistakes-i-made-in-the-18-months-as-a-new-vc-partner/?sf=labba |
Sales | Bridge Group's 2015 SaaS Inside Sales Report | The Bridge Group | http://www.bridgegroupinc.com/resources/SaaSInsideSalesReport.pdf |
Sales | Y Combinator SaaS Sales Template Agreement (Microsoft Word Document) | Y Combinator | |
Sales | Don't Hire a VP of Sales | Heavybit | |
Sales | Customer Size Should Dictate Your SaaS Sales Tactics | Intercom | |
Sales | How to Solve the Biggest Pricing Challenge in the SaaS Industry | Kissmetrics | |
Sales | What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape | Harvard Business Review | http://hbr.stfi.re/2015/08/what-salespeople-need-to-know-about-the-new-b2b-landscape?sf=aabrvr |
Sales | Enterprise Sales Guide | ||
Sales | The Next Era of SaaS Growth: The Go-To-Customer Strategy | Drift | |
Sales | How to Succeed at The Most Critical Point in SaaS Sales | Kissmetrics | http://blog.kissmetrics.stfi.re/succeed-critical-point-saas-sales/?sf=oazga |
Sales | 5 lessons for building a scalable SaaS sales machine | The Next Web | http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2016/06/09/build-scalable-sales-machine-saas/ |
Sales | You're Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Because of Poor Sales Onboarding | First Round | |
Sales | 5 Steps to Get Your First Customer | http://blog.close.io/5-steps-to-get-your-first-customer-webinar | |
Growth | Why Some SaaS Companies Stall Out at $20m ARR | SaaStr | https://www.saastr.com/why-i-think-saas-companies-stall-out-at-20m-arr/ |
Growth | What's Behind Slowing SaaS Startup Creation? | Mattermark | https://mattermark.com/whats-behind-slowing-saas-startup-creation/ |
Growth | How One Startup Grew From Zero to $100K in Monthly Revenue In Only 11 Months | Groove | |
Growth | Growth Is Never Done | ||
Growth | No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric | Jason Cohen | |
Growth | Growth is a System, Not a Bag of Tricks | Andrew Chen | http://andrewchen.co/growth-is-a-system-not-a-bag-of-tricks/ |
Growth | Experiment Segmentation: Avoiding Old Dogs and Watered Down Results | John Egan | http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/experiment-segmentation-avoiding-old-dogs-watered-results/ |
Growth | 4 Ways to Tackle Growth with Retention | Mode | https://blog.modeanalytics.com/user-retention-growth-strategy/ |
Growth | Where Should You Start Testing? | Peep Laja | |
Growth | How To Drive Insights For Growth | ||
Growth | Double Your Win Rate with My Data-Based A/B Testing Process | Unbounce | http://unbounce.com/a-b-testing/data-based-a-b-testing-process/ |
Growth | These Are Buffer’s Top 10 Lessons from Growing to $10 Million ARR | Buffer | https://open.buffer.com/top-10-learnings-growing-to-10-million-arr/ |
Growth | Why The Growth Process Is More Important Than The Growth Hack | Medium | |
Growth | 5 A/B Tests For Your Landing Page Opt-In Forms | Peep Laja | |
Growth | My Episode on HubSpot's Podcast, The Growth Show | SoundCloud | https://soundcloud.com/the-growth-show/hiten-shah-thinks-you-should |
Growth | Growth Interview Questions From Atlassian, SurveyMonkey, Gusto And HubSpot (Guest Post) | Andrew Chen | http://andrewchen.co/growth-interview-questions-atlassian-surveymonkey-gusto-hubspot/ |
Growth | Baremetrics' system for scoring & prioritizing every marketing idea | Baremetrics | |
Growth | Demystifying Churn: Measuring and Benchmarking this Metric | David Skok | |
Growth | Is Retention Like Teenage Sex? | Amplitude | https://amplitude.com/blog/2016/01/21/is-retention-like-teenage-sex/ |
Growth | Learn These 7 Technical Growth Skills | Nate Desmond | http://www.natedesmond.com/7-technical-skills-growth-marketing/ |
Growth | Science of Growth: The Second Launch to Accelerate Growth | Medium | |
Growth | The Three Phases of Consumer Products | Medium | https://medium.com/backchannel/lessons-learned-growing-consumer-products-550fc04c63c2 |
Growth | How Not To Suck At SaaS Upsells | Crazy Egg | https://blog.crazyegg.com/2016/01/04/how-to-not-suck-saas-upsells/ |
Growth | What's a Good Conversion Rate? | Peep Laja | http://conversionxl.stfi.re/whats-a-good-conversion-rate/?sf=blnax |
Growth | The Silver Bullet in ConvertKit’s Rapid Growth | Medium | https://medium.com/@mattragland/the-silver-bullet-in-convertkits-rapid-growth-177ecb2fbe26 |
Growth | The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect | Lars Lofgren | http://larslofgren.com/analytics/9-delusions-the-halo-effect |
Growth | The 5 Components of a Good Hypothesis | Product Talk | http://www.producttalk.org/2014/11/the-5-components-of-a-good-hypothesis/ |
Growth | The Best A/B Test Idea You Haven’t Thought Of | UserTesting | http://www.usertesting.com/blog/2014/09/02/the-best-ab-test-idea-you-havent-thought-of/ |
Growth | Growth Hacking for Developer Startups | Heavybit | |
Growth | How to Build a Brand from Nothing | ||
Growth | The Innovator's Dilemma for SaaS Startups | Tomasz Tunguz | |
Growth | 5 Growth Lessons from Uber and BuzzFeed | Percolate | https://blog.percolate.com/2015/01/5-lessons-buzzfeed-uber-building-closed-loop-growth-systems/ |
Growth | The End Of “Growth At Any Cost” For VC Backed SaaS Businesses | InsightSquared | |
Growth | 6 Tried and True Strategies to Becoming a SaaS Category Leader | Mattermark | https://mattermark.com/6-tried-and-true-strategies-to-becoming-a-saas-category-leader/ |
Growth | How Do You Choose the Best Growth Team Model? | Medium | https://medium.com/swlh/how-do-you-choose-the-best-growth-team-model-632ad5a85be9 |
Growth | When Should You Stop an A/B Test? | Crazy Egg | |
Growth | The First Step To Building A Growth Machine | http://www.coelevate.com/essays/growth-process-first-tactics-second | |
Growth | Statistical Significance Does Not Equal Validity (or Why You Get Imaginary Lifts) | Peep Laja | http://conversionxl.com/statistical-significance-does-not-equal-validity/ |
Growth | Public SaaS Company Disclosure Metrics for Churn | KeyBank | |
Growth | How Loggly Accelerated Growth with Product Onboarding | http://mostlyjason.com/2015/04/28/how-we-accelerated-growth-with-product-onboarding/ | |
Growth | Unit of Value: A Framework for Scaling | Medium | https://medium.com/greylock-perspectives/unit-of-value-a-framework-for-scaling-42c092fba887 |
Growth | When do features drive growth? | John Egan | |
Growth | Slow Growth Lessons in a Hack-Assed World | Medium | |
Growth | Indispensable Growth Frameworks from Andy Johns' Years at Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront | First Round | |
Growth | How to A/B Test Every Element in Your Content Strategy | Neil Patel | http://neilpatel.com/2016/05/21/how-to-ab-test-every-element-in-your-content-strategy/ |
Growth | How Coderwall grew 57% with one A/B test | RankScience | |
Growth | What's the Maximum Rate of Growth for Your SaaS Startup with Paid Customer Acquisition? | Tomasz Tunguz | http://tomtunguz.com/how-fast-can-you-grow-your-saas-business-with-paid-spend/ |
Growth | The Ultimate Guide to Customer Support | Zapier | https://zapier.com/learn/ultimate-guide-to-customer-support/ |
Growth | Learning and Impact, Over Ideas and Activity | http://www.coelevate.com/essays/learning-and-impact-over-ideas-and-activity | |
Growth | How I Got My First $100K in MRR | Groove | |
Product | Drive Development With Budgets Not Estimates | Basecamp | https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3746-drive-development-with-budgets-not-estimates |
Product | Lessons Learned From Scaling a Product Team | Intercom | |
Product | The First Rule of Prioritization: No Snacking | Intercom | https://blog.intercom.io/first-rule-prioritization-no-snacking/ |
Product | The Dos and Don’ts of Aligning Your Welcome Page and Welcome Email | Appcues | http://www.appcues.com/blog/aligning-your-welcome-page-and-welcome-email/ |
Product | Define Your Vision to Differentiate Your Product | Wistia | |
Product | The Race For Apple Watch's Killer App | Andrew Chen | |
Product | Get Out Of The Way - Give Users What They Want | Medium | https://medium.com/design-philosophy/get-out-of-the-way-87ad3194cf02 |
Product | Onboarding Isn’t About Signups, It’s About Long-Term Engagement | http://www.instigatorblog.com/onboarding-for-long-term-engagement/2015/01/05/ | |
Product | Difficult Conversations Will Grow Your Product | Intercom | http://blog.intercom.io/difficult-conversations-will-grow-your-product/ |
Product | 5 Mistakes We All Make When Getting Product Feedback | Intercom | http://blog.intercom.io/5-mistakes-we-all-make-with-product-feedback/ |
Product | How to Estimate the Expected Impact of a Product Change | Product Talk | http://www.producttalk.org/2014/12/how-to-estimate-the-expected-impact-of-a-product-change/ |
Product | SaaS Product Validation Techniques | Ryan Battles | |
Product | How to hire a product manager | GV | |
Product | Product Design Starts With a Fingerprint | Intercom | https://blog.intercom.io/product-design-starts-with-a-fingerprint/ |
Product | Measuring Customer Value in a Software Product | Daniel Zacarias | http://foldingburritos.com/articles/2015/04/08/customer-value-in-a-software-product/ |
Product | How Freemium Apps Convert Users with Brilliant Upgrade Prompts | Appcues | |
Product | When a hackathon project becomes internal tools becomes a side project and then becomes its own SaaS business | Medium | |
Product | Secrets to Creating a Customer Driven Product Machine | Drift | |
Product | Getting Customer Insights with User Tests | Appcues | |
Product | A UI So Good, It Breaks Language Barriers | Medium | http://medium.stfi.re/@strawburrymiwk/a-ui-so-good-it-breaks-language-barriers-83b6e11ae4d2?sf=pjwdv |
Product | 9 Customer Success Emails Your SaaS Needs to Be Sending | Drip | |
Product | 150 of the Best B2B Case Study Examples | DocSend | |
Product | How to design the most efficient software your users have ever seen | Stacking the Bricks | http://unicornfree.com/2014/how-to-design-the-most-efficient-software-your-users-have-ever-seen |
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Fundraising | SaaS Secrets to Raising Venture Capital | ||
Fundraising | The Five Most Critical Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Money | ||
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Fundraising | 5 Funding Lessons From A Second-Time Founder | Forbes | |
Fundraising | Does cold-emailing VC firms ever work? Are there any tactics to help increase the odds? | Quora | |
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Fundraising | The Fundraising Wisdom That Helped Our Founders Raise $18B in Follow-On Capital | First Round | |
Fundraising | How To Find Investors Without Being Annoying (For Startups) | MindSea | |
Fundraising | How I Turned A Cold Email Into A $2.5M Seed Round | Medium | https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-turned-a-cold-email-into-a-2-5m-seed-round-c33bd80f5590 |
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Fundraising | How to Email Early Stage Investors | YCombinator | https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-email-early-stage-investors/ |
Fundraising | How To Raise Money | Paul Graham | |
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