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How Software Companies Win: Rethinking Org Structure, Product Teams, and Priorities with Airtable’s VP Product Ilan Frank
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The Five Requirements of Enterprise Readiness
Ilan Frank is a productivity and collaboration product veteran with more than two decades of experience scaling software.
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Economic downturns force us to get back to basics: The cost of new capital and low valuation multiples—even for top-performing public companies—force startups to make substantial progress per dollar to get a term sheet, much less an up round.
Selling software got a lot harder in the past year and SaaS companies should plan for a similar environment over the next couple of years.
Great products are built by great teams.
Everyone wants the best of both worlds: low CAC with product-led (PLG) and high ACVs with sales-led (SLG) growth models.
The software business has changed dramatically—a transformation accelerated by the shift to remote work and hybrid offices many of us experience today.
In March, we announced our lead investment in the Series A for Pinecone, a semantic search database powered by vector embedding search.
Customer Advisory Boards, or CABs, play a crucial role in preparing your software for enterprise readiness.
Ilan Frank is a productivity and collaboration product veteran with more than two decades of experience scaling software.
For our latest Menlo Ventures Product Assembly, we hosted a virtual wine tasting with special guest Albert Wang.
I had the honor of co-hosting a Menlo Ventures Product Assembly virtual event with Jen Kessler (Klaviyo’s new VP of Product). Jen was the CEO and co-founder at Bizzy before...
How to align product with what customers want, differentiate from competitors, and win your market
Most startups are leaving money on the table when it comes to pricing their products and services.
Jen has deep expertise in product management and marketing, and previously held senior roles at Salesforce, Facebook, and Adobe.
It’s commonly believed that the top two reasons startups fail are “There’s no market need” and “They ran out of cash.”
This article originally appeared in Business Insider. I joined Menlo Ventures as a partner after years of building Growth Product teams focused on activation, retention, and monetization. I gravitated towards...
It’s no secret that the tech industry has a diversity problem.
