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How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers

Lenny's Newsletter

Our third or fourth employee was a part-time contractor out of the Bay Area, and he called the people he knew, like at Greenhouse Software, where he had consulted and had buddies, and asked if they wanted to try it out. ” — Tomer London , co-founder and CPO of Gusto “We would build anything for anybody. But it worked.”

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We’re Breaking Free: Why It’s Time for Demand Gen Marketers to Own Their Data

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That many people reading our 2023 B2B paid social benchmark report were surprised by the high cost per opportunity (CPO) of paid social advertising. Instead of looking only at CPL, marketers should focus on metrics like upsell revenue and cost per opportunity (CPO). Does Facebook or LinkedIn drive a better CPO?

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How to validate your B2B startup idea

Lenny's Newsletter

And then we got an email from an old Dropbox colleague who was like, ‘I hear you guys have become SOC 2 consultants. Chetan (our lead investor at Benchmark) gave us advice that selling authentication to large companies would take a long time, since they’d need a lot of features. Art by Natalie Harney.