The rapid expansion that product-led companies have seen in the past ten years has dramatically changed the SaaS industry. Even companies that have been historically successful using their sales-led model are adopting product-led growth strategies to appeal to today’s modern buyer––and for good reason. Product-led companies outperformed their peers on the S&P 500 by 219% […]
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A Lead Gen Go-To-Market Cheat Sheet
Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. There are two common situations where this happens. The first is if there is incredible product-market fit and some virality or network effect built into the product itself. A few users beget a few more users […]
Creating a Go-To-Market Operating System
One thing that all high-performing go-to-market (GTM) teams have in common is an operating system that helps drive alignment, transparency, and focus on goal attainment. A well-run GTM operating system creates clarity about what’s important to the business and the levers that impact growth. When I start working with a company, one of the first […]
Great Pricing is Consistent, Transparent, and Fair
This is a guest post by Steven Forth Co-Founder at Ibbaka Performance. Pricing is often thought of as a transactional part of business. Two parties get together and negotiate a price they can both live with. Done. Move on to the next deal. This is why the strategic nature of pricing decisions gets little attention […]
Why Your PLG Company Should Invest in Sales
A sales team is like sunscreen––you need it even when you think you don’t. Chase Roberts, Twitter When you think of product-led growth, your first thought is, of course: the product. You simply cannot have a product-led company without a compelling product or service that solves an unmet and obvious need. But the truth is, […]
First Value, Then Price, Then Product
This is a guest post by Steven Forth, Co-Founder at Ibbaka Performance. Given the widespread recognition that value-based pricing drives faster growth and higher returns, why do so few companies apply it? There are two reasons, one most common in the start-up world, the other prevalent among established companies. The most common product development sequence […]
Your One Page Annual Go-To-Market Template
Pricing and Innovation
This is a guest post by Steven Forth Co-Founder at Ibbaka Performance. As an innovator, one of your passions is to create value. Value for your investors? Yes. Value for your team? Yes. But the most important value you will create is value to customers or V2C. The simple formula that you are building your […]
3 Pillars of Metrics-Fueled Product-Led Growth
If you decide to embark on the product-led growth (PLG) path, you are also making an implicit agreement to make your product itself the center of attention. PLG brings clarity and focus to the product planning process but can also increase the risk of taking a wrong turn—metaphorically speaking. In the old enterprise-style, sales-led model, […]
5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company
For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. It can be the difference between having 6 months of runway versus an endless runway. It can make the difference between needing to make deep cuts when the business climate gets rocky […]
