B2B Inbound Outbound Startups 
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 16, 2024
B2B SaaS equations A B2B SaaS business sells cloud-hosted software on a subscription basis (that’s what makes it software as a service—SaaS) to other businesses (that’s what makes it B2B). B2B SaaS businesses typically monetize in one of two ways— per seat (e.g.
Userpilot
MAY 3, 2022
Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. When you’re trying to sell to an upmarket target audience, you have to realize that the sales process is a lot more hands-on than the search engine optimization or inbound marketing efforts that you used to get your current customers.
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Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Choose one, ensuring it can easily connect to any data sources you have (be that lead generation forms, or existing data sets) and also ensure that it can integrate with any outbound marketing tools you may have like MailChimp.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 21, 2018
Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession.
B2B Product Management
DECEMBER 6, 2016
As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. At a smaller company or a startup, usually one person plays both roles. This is not contradictory but rather complimentary.
Brian Balfour
JULY 18, 2017
The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. In the B2B world you also have B2B products like MailChimp, Slack, or SurveyMonkey that live on this end of the spectrum as they take advantage of viral and paid channels to drive most of their volume.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.
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