Most B2B segmentation looks great on a slide—but fails in the real world. After interviewing dozens of finance and reporting leaders, a simple truth emerged: people don’t buy because of their ICP profile; they buy because of the moment they’re in. Traditional segmentation ignores the struggling moments, triggers, and thresholds that actually drive decisions. This article explains why most segmentation frameworks break—and how identifying your Minimum Viable Segment (MVS) transforms pipeline, messaging, and growth.
From High-Growth Startups to Enterprise Giants: The Scaling Lessons No One Teaches You
From scaling startups to transforming enterprise teams, this post explores the frameworks, methodologies, and tools—such as OKRs, Lean Startup, and IMPACT—that help leaders drive growth with clarity. Learn how the combination of vision, strategy, and AI-powered insights can guide your organization towards success.
The Death of SaaS as We Know It: How AI and Automation Are Rewriting the Playbook
The Death of SaaS as We Know It: How AI and Automation Are Rewriting the Playbook Are traditional SaaS models holding your business back? As companies face rising costs and rigid software systems, the future belongs to AI-driven automation and cross-platform workflows. Discover how AI agents, coupled with automation platforms like Workato, Make, and Clari, are reshaping business processes, from onboarding to customer support. These solutions offer the flexibility, customization, and intelligence needed to stay competitive in today’s fast-evolving marketplace. Read on to learn why businesses are transitioning from SaaS to smarter, automated solutions powered by OpenAI o1 and GPT-4o.
Unlocking SaaS Potential: Harnessing Jobs to Be Done and Strategic Pricing for Maximum Impact
The Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework and strategic pricing are vital for SaaS companies to develop targeted solutions, resonant messaging, and compelling value propositions. By understanding core customer needs, companies can align product features and pricing models, creating meaningful connections and driving sustainable growth. Pricing strategies including value-based pricing, tiered pricing, freemium models, outcome-driven pricing, and dynamic pricing can maximize revenue potential and customer satisfaction. Successful implementation of these strategies is exemplified by companies like Slack and HubSpot.
Top 10 SaaS Go-To-Market Mistakes: A Founder’s Guide to Success
A critical mistake founders make is hiring a VP of Sales who cannot independently demo the product from day one - if they need an engineer or solutions architect to run the demo, do not make that hire. Other pitfalls include misaligning marketing hires like bringing on product marketers expecting them to drive demand gen, founders exiting sales prematurely even with an experienced sales leader, slashing marketing budgets to zero which starves the pipeline, ignoring disruptive AI trends that competitors are embracing, prioritizing short-term profitability over maintaining a growth rate above 30%, hiring fractional or bitter talent lacking full commitment, hiring for prestigious logos over true startup skills fit, expecting instant ROI from longer-term marketing efforts like brand building, and turning customer success into an upsell team at the expense of retention and satisfaction
Eclipsing Product-Centricity: Your Guide to Thriving in the Age of the Customer
Discover why being product-centric is a game of the past. This thought-provoking article uncovers how customer-centricity offers the winning strategy for businesses today, diving into key methods for understanding and meeting customer needs for sustainable success. Let's navigate the age of the customer together.
How to optimize your SaaS business and make it shine for investors?
As a former Vice President of Marketing and Chief Product Officer in the Big Tech industry, focusing on software, I’ve experienced several revolutions from PC and client/server, the worldwide web, mobile, social networks, and cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS), part of cloud computing, disrupted the long-established software industry, propelling Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow, Paypal … Continue reading How to optimize your SaaS business and make it shine for investors?
Emmanuel Obadia & Partners | Transform & Innovate 