Cracking the European Market: The Accountable Story ➡️ Nicolas Quarré walked me through the decision to launch in Belgium and how they chose the next country to expand to. We also talked about dealing with language translation, localization, and their strategy for going to market across Europe. When I spoke with him on the podcast, he shared his learnings from co-founding and expanding Accountable, a startup that manages taxes for self-employed people across Europe. If you’re expanding internationally soon, you won’t want to miss this one. 🔗 Link to the full episode below

How do you go from uni to Shark Tank? 🎓 🦈 Hint: It's about going from avoiding the spotlight to embracing it. While pursuing her Master's, Alexandra Kammer felt that “motivating people to keep consuming on a burning planet” was against her values. This led her to focus on social sustainability and diversity. She soon met her co-founders, and started Aivy, an HR tech company that makes hiring easier for companies and fairer for candidates. A year after her Masters, her team went through a casting process that got them selected for Germany's Shark Tank, Die Höhle der Löwen. At first, she struggled with insecurity and self-doubt. Now, she looks back at that experience and the exposure with gratitude. If you're a founder battling self-doubt, this episode of the SaaS Operator is for you! 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: youtu.be/kMTE0iyojSs?si=ZaWL…

Elena Verna is a PLG badass. As VP of Growth at SurveyMonkey, she catapulted their user base to 60 million, incl. 600k paying users. She’s also used her magic touch at Miro and Amplitude and advised Krisp and Veed. This 🧵 covers everything we’ve learned from the Queen of PLG.

I dove into Morning Brew's secret sauce for building its 6 Million person email list. Here are the tactics SaaS founders can steal 👀👇🏼 (a thread)

Reminder to myself: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Every startup advisor spouts the same thing to product-focused founders: Focus on marketing! The times of ‘build it and they will come’ are over! That’s true. But no one is talking about why we product people aren’t focused on marketing in the first place.

Are you currently evaluating which SaaS idea to go after? Then you shouldn't miss tomorrow's issue of 'The SaaS Operator' newsletter. We dive deep into how Rob Walling (the brain behind Drip, MicroConf, and TinySeed) picks opportunities. + his secret sauce for SaaS sales funnels 🚀 Subscribe here so you don't miss tomorrow's newsletter: earlynode.com/subscribe

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