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🎅🌲🎄This holiday season Deel is partnering with HubSpot For Startups on something special! We’re excited to help you enter 2025 with over : - USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings, including US$1,500 Deel Credits, AWS cloud credits, -12 months free Asana, -USD$1,000 TikTok Ads Credits etc. Whether you're looking to streamline your marketing, sales, or customer service, this exclusive bundle of software discounts, freebies, and tools is designed to help new founders scale efficiently and effectively. The Founder's Festive Toolbox includes: A. USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings B. Free software and resources. C. Access to tools and integrations to streamline your growth journey. This offer is ONLY available to new HubSpot Startups users — it’s our way of welcoming you to the HubSpot community and helping you hit the ground running in 2025! 🎅 Ready to unwrap your startup’s growth potential? Sign up today and take advantage of this limited-time offer before it’s gone! Nilesh Kumar Gwenllian Ching Naina Verghese

🎅🌲🎄This holiday season Deel is partnering with HubSpot For Startups on something special! We’re excited to help you enter 2025 with over : - USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings, including US$1,500 Deel Credits, AWS cloud credits, -12 months free Asana, -USD$1,000 TikTok Ads Credits etc. Whether you're looking to streamline your marketing, sales, or customer service, this exclusive bundle of software discounts, freebies, and tools is designed to help new founders scale efficiently and effectively. The Founder's Festive Toolbox includes: A. USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings B. Free software and resources. C. Access to tools and integrations to streamline your growth journey. This offer is ONLY available to new HubSpot Startups users — it’s our way of welcoming you to the HubSpot community and helping you hit the ground running in 2025! 🎅 Ready to unwrap your startup’s growth potential? Sign up today and take advantage of this limited-time offer before it’s gone! Nilesh Kumar Naina Verghese Gwenllian Ching

🎅🌲🎄This holiday season Deel is partnering with HubSpot For Startups on something special! We’re excited to help you enter 2025 with over : - USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings, including US$1,500 Deel Credits, AWS cloud credits, -12 months free Asana, -USD$1,000 TikTok Ads Credits etc. Whether you're looking to streamline your marketing, sales, or customer service, this exclusive bundle of software discounts, freebies, and tools is designed to help new founders scale efficiently and effectively. The Founder's Festive Toolbox includes: A. USD $100,000 worth of tech offerings B. Free software and resources. C. Access to tools and integrations to streamline your growth journey. This offer is ONLY available to new HubSpot Startups users — it’s our way of welcoming you to the HubSpot community and helping you hit the ground running in 2025! 🎅 Ready to unwrap your startup’s growth potential? Sign up today and take advantage of this limited-time offer before it’s gone! Nilesh Kumar Naina Verghese Gwenllian Ching

🚀 Attention Solopreneurs and Tech Entrepreneurs! Unlock the power of SaaS savings with BizStack Perks. We are excited to introduce a one-stop solution for accessing exclusive deals and discounts across thousands of rigorously vetted SaaS products and services. Perfect for those looking to optimize business operations while maintaining budget control. Join our vibrant community today and elevate your entrepreneurial journey. #BizStackPerks #SaaS #BusinessGrowth 🛠️✨

If you’re an entrepreneur, you need to study Slack. In just 8 months, Slack hit a billion-dollar valuation. Here's the story of how Slack took the corporate world by storm👇 2009: Flickr cofounder Steward Butterfield and Cal Henderson launch Tiny Speck, a new game company. 2011: They introduce their 1st project Glitch, an online game set in the minds of 11 giants. But it was:  •Too dull •Too slow •Too complex 2012: Glitch shuts down. What followed was unexpected. Butterfield proposed a BOLD pivot to enterprise software.  The glitch team built an internal messaging app with huge potential beyond gaming. So, Tiny Speck became Slack Technologies. 2013: Slack launched and it was an INSTANT hit. Today, Slack boasts: - $5B ARR - 2K+ employees - 38M+ daily users Here are 3 core factors behind their SUPERFAST growth👇 1️⃣ Organic magic Slack's initial growth came solely from word-of-mouth. Gain users → Delight them → They tell others → BOOM. This was pure product-led growth. Slack served a purpose that many people wanted to solve and it spread like wildfire. 2️⃣ Freemium & Upselling Slack is a truly free product. -No gated free trial -No credit card information Slack heavily attracted small to mid-sized teams with its freemium model. Also, upsold the users to pay more to access the messaging history and other features. A perfect strategy for conversion. 3️⃣ Prioritized User Feedback Slack always prioritized user feedback. The Slack team👇 • Built a help bot for assistance • Attended every support ticket • Has a dedicated Twitter account for reporting incidents They ask, listen, and improve. This increased customer stickiness. Finally, Salesforce acquired Slack for a whopping $27.7 billion. ———————————— Hope you found this story interesting. Share it if you did ♻️ Follow me for all things SAAS & entrepreneurship 👐 Join me on the bootstrapping journey to take SaaS to $10M ARR!

Can You REALLY Build a SaaS Product in a Crowded Market? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Definitely, but you’ll need to outsmart the competition (and likely consume more coffee than is considered healthy). While completing my Google Cybersecurity Certification and diving into various intriguing tech platforms, I had the chance to connect with many SaaS startup founders. During my research, I stumbled upon a fascinating statistic: with over 30,000 SaaS companies out there, it’s a bit like attending a party where everyone’s wearing the same outfit. But here’s the kicker: the global SaaS market is projected to soar to a staggering $272.49 billion by 2028. That’s a colossal pie, and there are still plenty of slices up for grabs. So, how do you stand out in this ultra-caffeinated, feature-packed SaaS landscape? 1️⃣ Nail your niche—Don’t try to be everything to everyone. Zero in on solving one problem exceptionally well. 2️⃣ Leverage customer feedback—Get obsessed. Your customers know what they need better than anyone else. 3️⃣ Differentiation isn’t just about features—Sometimes it’s your pricing model, user experience, or outstanding customer support that makes the difference. 🔗 Interesting reads: https://lnkd.in/ePHtRCAu Building a SaaS product isn’t for the faint of heart, but with a unique value proposition, you’ll not only survive—you’ll thrive. 🚀 #SaaS #GrowthHacks #Entrepreneurship #GTM

Buzz around the future of software and MVPs lately on LinkedIn. 🔴 "Software ate the world." 🔴 "The end of the MVP" (i.e., products should be near-perfect at launch). These discussions are exciting—they highlight what really matters. ➡ From my experience, success in startups, especially in B2B and enterprise segments, rarely hinges on the product alone. Unless it’s foundational or a meta-layer, it’s likely to be absorbed by tech giants. ➡ Navigating this space is complex. The MVP, often seen as a starting point, is actually the final piece before launch. The journey to a meaningful MVP is where the real value lies. The most critical part of this journey? Truly understanding the client’s needs and pain points. Deep expertise in their industry is crucial for a well-calibrated value proposition. Without this, even the best solutions can miss the mark. ▶ While some argue that a quick MVP helps to project the solution, they might be right—but also wrong. If you need the MVP to see the path forward, you might not be immersed enough in the problem to begin with. ▶ This is why many startups deliver an MVP in 3 months but take another 15 months to find a significant user base. With the same time frame, it might be smarter to spend 3 months deeply understanding your client and 15 months developing a product with a 100% hit rate. ❇️ In a complex financing context, it's often wiser to build a product you’ve already sold than to construct something and then wonder who will buy it and how. ❇️ An MVP should be a precise tool, evolving through feedback from foundational users. Every feature should be something we believe can be monetized or help retain clients. Focus on building a robust, functional core first. The aesthetics can come later. It’s about solving real problems, not just looking good or even "stylish." 📊 Performance rather than appearance. Substance over form. Understand and meet your users' needs first. Everything else will follow. Wishing you all a week of genuine progress. Keep it real 🤘!

Alright LinkedIn, I have an update for you as part of this "Build in Public" thing. After about a quarter of effort, it is clear that CrockettXM as a Journey services agency is not going to fly, at least in its current form, so ... ... PIVOT TIME! CrockettXM will continue to live on, but will be pivoting to a Little SaaS product (check out my video on the topic if you want to learn more about Big SaaS vs Little SaaS). As an independent consultant I will continue to advise companies on journeys and journey orchestration, but will be focusing most of my consulting efforts on advising B2B SaaS founders on growing their businesses. Many of you know me from my work at Qualtrics, but what you may not know is that I have been through 3 exits as an executive and 1 as an IC (Qualtrics -> SilverLake). I have held the CTO role 3x and held the head of product role (CPO / VP of Prod) 2x. I have scaled a business from $1.5million to $25million, and have launched multiple SaaS products, and replatformed multiple times as well. I have a unique combination of product, technology, and GTM that allow me to speak into the many challenges Little SaaS companies will face as they scale. I am currently in the process of talking to 100 bootstrap, solopreneurs, and indiehacker founders in 45 days, with the goal of learning more about the Little SaaS community, their challenges, and helping them solve their biggest business challenges. I've spoken to entrepreneurs all over the world, and hearing and speaking into their stories has been one of the coolest, most rewarding things I've done. If you are starting or growing a business, reach out and let's connect (or click the link below to register). I'll give you 30 minutes of my time for free to help you on your founder journey! Know a founder or two that may be interested? Spread the word! https://lnkd.in/e9bSZck2

For those considering a SaaS startup, there's some solid advice going around. Commitment is key, and that means a full 24 months dedicated to hitting initial traction. Think you can bring your A-game for 8,760 hours in a year? It's not just about clocking in long hours but living and breathing your business, even at family dinners. And here's a kicker: Zero optionality. Without a back-up plan, you're in it to win it. If there’s room for ‘what ifs’, you might not be ready. Great founders aren’t necessarily risk-takers; they just see where they're headed and work relentlessly towards it. So, are you ready to dive in with unshakeable determination? Or is it time to hit the books a bit longer? Let’s hear your thoughts! Cheers! https://lnkd.in/eNAmEYeX

6 Friends have started a company when they were in college, They did studied not related to the syllabus, they studied about the - business culture, - entrepreneurship, - hustle culture Participated in lot of ideathon challenges, hackathons, won money and invested everything into the company they started, days went by, after 4 years in the industry, they proudly became leaders and leading a company with 20+ employees, focusing on best client experiences with their services and solutions. Those 6 friends are none but our co-founders, who desired to do something different, and yes, we have leads, people and inspiring folks within our team to help your business. From today, we will share, how our friends have started, Hostspacio, what they are doing when it comes to product, what services we are providing, how we can help you and more. Now, we are proudly announcing, that we are Google cloud partner and we are ready to scale up your solutions to cloud with Google's cloud solutions. Follow us us to never miss the update and learn about the business, hustle culture without hustle because we are always here to ease your work. For any services, reach out to us at info@hostspacio.in #Hostspacio #DigitalSolutions