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Stage 2 Capital and the right to scale
A venture firm built by a financier and a sales operator asks founders to prove something before they hire faster: are customers actually succeeding?
Startup Field Guide: Find the customer. Then build.
The first idea rarely survives the first customer. Unusual Ventures’ Startup Field Guide turns that awkward discovery into a free education for software founders.
The SaaS Revolution Show: Borrow the experience.
Alex Theuma turned conversations with software founders into a podcast and a community. The archive offers useful operating lessons - including a few from the business that built it.
Grit gets to the hard part.
Building a company sounds tidy after it works. Kleiner Perkins’ Grit asks the people who built it about the decisions that made the story messy.
Mostly Growth makes the math talk
A growth strategist and a CFO built a podcast about how companies make money. Then they had to figure out how to grow one themselves.
The SaaSiest Podcast: Good questions travel.
Two friends started interviewing SaaS operators. The conversations became a European community - and a business built around getting the right people talking.
The conference that fits in your pocket
The Official SaaStr Podcast turns operator experience into a free library of business decisions. Its real subject is the expensive gap between knowing how software works and knowing how to sell it.
AWS Startup Loft Accelerator: Ten weeks, no equity, fewer wrong turns
A young company can have working code and still have no working business. AWS Startup Loft Accelerator pairs cloud expertise with commercial advice - and lets founders choose the help they actually need.
Koala Found the Buyers. Then It Found the Harder Problem.
The sales startup taught teams to recognize a warm prospect. Then its own customers asked the awkward question: now what?
The Forecast Was Never the Problem. The Missing Machine Was.
Xfactor.io wants executives to stop admiring last quarter's dashboard and start rehearsing next quarter's decisions. Its wager is simple: revenue needs a flight simulator, not another rear-view mirror.
Colony and the Art of Knowing What Not to Design
The Los Angeles studio built its reputation by making brands unmistakable. Its more interesting habit is deciding, before a single logo moves, whether design is the problem at all.
BABs Asked Crypto to Show Its Work
The Web3 growth shop began with an NFT idea and ended up chasing a harder prize: proof that attention can become users, liquidity and trust.
The Agency That Put a Price Tag on Attention
JDI sells something every difficult technology needs and few can manufacture alone: a story that survives contact with the real world. Its more interesting invention may be the candid operating system behind the work.
The Agency That Wants to Make Itself Less Necessary
SalientMG built a business by noticing that startups rarely suffer from a shortage of marketing activity. They suffer from doing the right things in the wrong order.
Innsena Bet on the Buyers Health Tech Kept Overlooking
When private digital-health funding tightened, the Atlanta consultancy shifted its balance toward Medicaid, public health, and government-backed work. The move turned policy fluency and relationships into a practical go-to-market advantage.
Krafted Digital Put the Plumbing Before the Ads
Most agencies sell attention. Krafted Digital sells the machinery behind it - the data, CRM, content and follow-up that keep a promising lead from disappearing between an ad and a sales call.
The Marketing Department Designed to Disappear
Most agencies are paid to remain indispensable. Department of Growth has built a stranger proposition: join the client, build the machine, and then hire itself out of the job.
The PR Firm That Reads the Sales Deck First
Convey Communications built a boutique agency around an unfashionable idea: before you pitch the story, learn how the client actually sells. The result is PR that wanders far beyond the press release - into product, pipeline and the buying committee.
The $2,000 Bet on Healthcare’s Secret Handshake
Tim Busche and Kelley Smith began with $2,000 and a complaint: healthcare marketing too often arrives without healthcare fluency. Their answer was an agency built to translate between the clinic, the buyer and the campaign.
Red Harp Union and the work after the click
Selling a consumer brand abroad takes more than a good campaign. Red Harp Union puts brand storytelling, sales channels and customer support in the same conversation - with a Philips Water case study that shows both the promise and the friction.
T Palmer Agency knows the room is part of the pitch
A technical product can be hard to explain. T Palmer Agency works on everything around that explanation - the brand, the booth, the website, and the people worth meeting.
BOCA sells the part of tech that engineers cannot ship
A working product still needs a buyer who understands why it matters. BOCA Marketing Agency has built its business around that awkward distance - from technical explanation to commercial conviction.
Darwinian Ventures Thinks Your Sales Hire Is Innocent
The San Francisco firm has a blunt diagnosis for stalled B2B growth: before you fire the seller, inspect the habitat. Its embedded operators rebuild the machinery around revenue - then leave it under the client's roof.
The $200,000 Hire Uncapped Wants Founders to Postpone
The San Francisco consultancy sells founders an unusual bridge between doing every deal themselves and hiring a full revenue chief: a small embedded team, an AI-wired sales system and a promise that the client keeps the machinery.
ChannelCreator sells Europe. First, it asks who will buy.
Before a software company hires a European sales team, ChannelCreator offers to test the proposition and do the selling. Its most revealing advice is knowing when founders should keep the job themselves.
RED EAGLE and the work before the pitch
The Hyderabad mentorship consultancy puts product-market fit, revenue models and launch strategy on the same agenda as fundraising. Its proposition starts with the business an investor will be asked to believe in.
The UK Launchpad learned to open doors at the right time
Sandeep Arora’s early mistake was introducing clients to opportunities before they were ready. His UK Launchpad now pairs corporate access with the preparation that makes a meeting useful.
Product Marketing Alliance Tried to Sell T-Shirts. The Community Bought a Profession.
A failed merch table exposed the better business hiding in plain sight: build the room product marketers needed, then sell the education, events and tools that make the room more valuable.
Swivel Says B2B Growth Breaks at the Hand-Off - Its Fix Is One Revenue System
The Cincinnati consultancy bets that stalled pipeline is usually a wiring problem, not a talent problem. Its RevOS model replaces the agency pile-up with one accountable, full-funnel operating system.
The Startup That Turned Cloud Marketplace Paperwork Into a Product
Selling software through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud is where the big B2B deals now happen - and also where the operational mess lives. Suger built the plumbing so vendors do not have to.