When you sell software, especially SaaS software, the strategy to reach out to customers varies depending on several factors. But it is also true that the software world is now more competitive than ever. That, coupled with SaaS businesses going global, means that founders need to have a way to stand out, be more active in making the early (and big) sales, bring in advisor expertise, and constantly innovate. Three founders who have tread the path talk about what works, what doesn’t.

There are two key lessons for SaaS founders moving to the US market. One is to treat it as a fresh start. The second is to revalidate their core market and customers. Getting customers and building a brand presence in the US will involve working with investors, executive search partners, and advisory boards.

Hosted by Arvind Parthiban, Co-founder & CEO of SuperOps.ai, the event provided an intimate platform for visionary founders to dive deep into the startup’s remarkable journey and glean strategic insights applicable to their ventures.

Founders are on the move. Especially those building software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. Over the years, we’ve seen several SaaS ideas take root and grow into large, valuable businesses. And we find that the one area all founders want to understand better is their go-to-market strategy.  At Lightspeed India’s Enterprise GTM social in Menlo Park, in partnership […]

Before a founder starts the journey to achieve product-market fit, they need to build conviction in the market. The best way to achieve this is through constant interaction with stakeholders and fine-tuning the ideal customer profile. Simply put, market discovery is a way to find out whether or not the product you are trying to […]

When retail tech startup Mason started out in 2020, several companies were already helping brands build online stores, seeing the success of Shopify as a D2C (direct-to-consumer) alternative to marketplaces. This brought a tsunami of brands online. So the problem Mason wanted to solve was to help brands stand out and grow faster on their […]

In the first part of this Founder’s Playbook, we looked at some of the hard choices Zenoti made to win in the US market and eventually become a category leader in enterprise SaaS for the wellness industry. One of the hardest calls was to keep its sales and product people focused on a specific vertical, […]

My personal experience of being a part of the SGx’s 4th cohort while working as a product marketer, a part of the growth team at Hivel.ai Were you ever in a labor room either pushing the baby or encouraging a mother in labor to push? Labor accelerates, contractions accelerate, and then you are in that moment […]

Guest Background Nivedha Sridhar is a Director of Marketing at Facilio, which builds property operations software for large enterprises. They manage 60M sqft across 500 buildings and are headquartered in New York with offices in Dubai, Chennai, UK, Italy, and Australia. Previously Nivedha was a product marketer at Zoho. Evolution of Facilio org chart Facilio […]