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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things. Keith Rabois: There is in another tale two cities is most of the people that were most affected by the March and April shutdowns were not the people that buy and sell houses.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

” They will be able to point to measurable value X amount saved, or X user adoption, or X spend categories and a management, or X improvement in operational efficiency, whatever that may be. You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X? It’s pretty crazy, isn’t it?

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses. Right now if you look on the other side, an area I know a fair amount about, look at US real estate.

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

ConversionXL

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Organize growth into a cross-functional team. Technical analysis – Crush all the bugs on your site: Check Analytics – identify issues, cross browser & cross device testing.

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Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X. I had a cross functional team that owned pricing and packaging. First is assigning an owner.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

which customers will buy one or more products for a cross-sell or upsell. or “Who is likely to try product X?” Distilled fully, FanThreeSixty’s goal (and Longstreet’s explanation of his role at dinner parties) is to “help teams sell more tickets and hot dogs.”. which leads will convert—however you define conversion.

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Lessons From Downturns & Turnarounds with Chris O’Neill (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. I had the good fortune to be at Google X for a time and be surrounded by just amazing human beings.