How to Create a Billion$ Category - Mark Organ's Dreamforce 2013 keynote

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Why just a build a company when you can create an entire new category? Category creators grow revenue 4x faster and grow market cap 6x faster than category entrants. In this Dreamforce keynote talk, serial entrepreneur discusses how he created the cloud marketing automation category with Eloqua, his new advocate marketing category creator Influitive, and some other great category creators like Salesforce.com, Tesla and Keurig. A new framework for category creation is proposed, featuring a transformational experience and revolutionary business model underpinned by disruptive technological change.

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Creating the billion$ SaaS category:Zero to IPO secrets from a serial entrepreneur

Mark Organ, Influitive, CEO

@markorgan

@influitive

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Cloud-basedMarketing Automation

Advocate Marketing

Nasdaq IPO$871M

BILLION$ (TBD)

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List, AttentionSpoilage

DeliverabilityAvailability of

Deep Knowledge

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Ideal Reality

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2006 2010 2014F0%

25%

50%

75%

Dependence on knowledgeable peers in the buying process(B2B software buyers)

3.5X increase

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What does it mean to create a category?

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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6

-20%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Revenue growth (2004-2005)

Salesforce.com

Oracle(incl. PeopleSoft)

SAP

Siebel

Amdocs

Note: Relative Market Share is each company’s revenue divided by the market leader; the market leader’srevenue is divided by the 2nd place company’s revenue. Source: Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/493005)

Salesforce.com’s status as a category creator enabled rapid growth several years ago

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0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.200%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Salesforce.com

Oracle

SAP

Microsoft

IBM

SugarCRM

Note: Relative Market Share is each company’s revenue divided by the market leader; the market leader’srevenue is divided by the 2nd place company’s revenue. Source: Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2459015)

This led to a dominant market position today

Revenue growth (2011-2012)

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Tesla currently is small vs luxury vehicles

Tesla Lexus Audi Cadillac Mercedes-Benz BMW0

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

Source: Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-is-not-really-outselling-bmw-audi-2013-5)

US unit sales, 2012

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Tesla has shown dominance of US vehicle sales in its specific price range

Tesla Model S Audi A8 BMW 7-Series Mercedes-Benz S Class0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

US unit sales, Q1 2013

Source: Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-is-not-really-outselling-bmw-audi-2013-5)

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Tesla’s category creator status and rapid growth drive valuation multiples far higher than other carmakers

Tesla DaimlerBenz BMW VW Ford GM$0K

$100K

$200K

$300K

$400K

$500K

$600K

$700K

$800K

$714K

$60K $39K $13K $12K $6K

Market capitalization per vehicle sold

Source: Yahoo! Finance, Corporate filings, Analyst reports

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Transformational experience

Revolutionary business model

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Driven By Disruptive Forces

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Missionary

MercenaryVS

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Overall (20) Category Creators (10) Non-Category Creators (10)

$0.00

$1.00

$2.00

$3.00

$4.00

$5.00

$6.00

$3.40

$5.60

$1.20

Incremental market capitalization per $1.00 of revenue growth

CNN/Fortune top 20 fastest growing companies (2010)

Category creator premium

Category creators enjoy a valuation premium

Source: Cambridge Partners in HBR Blog, 09/2011

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= ≠

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= ≠Hypothesis-driven, iterative approach

Vertical niche market dominance

Focus innovation on the emergent hero

Drive the company on mission, vision and values

Invest early in customer success

Iterated MVP is insufficient: emphasize design & quality

Expand your productization and monetization models

Build for the billion.

Drive leads to achieve profitable, efficient growth

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= ≠

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Use a hypothesis-driven, iterative approach to quickly find

product-market fit

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Pick that niche you want to serve,

document why, and test it.

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It’s OK if your hypothesis is

wrong.

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Pivot quickly!

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Eloqua started with the wrong

product in the wrong market

1.0 2.0

Marke

t

F.I.R.E.(Financial, Insur-

ance, Real Estate)B2B Tech

Product

ChatMarketing

automation

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Vertical niche market dominance

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The narrower the better.

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Your first job as an

entrepreneur is not to die

I PROMISE I WILL NEVER DIE

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Focus innovation on the

emergent, under-served hero

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Drive the company on

mission, vision and values …from day one!

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Drive leads to achieve profitable, efficient growth

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Treat lead gen as a

strategic imperative

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CEO must help choose

customers strategically

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Ensure the lead flow is increasing in

quality & quantity

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Use a marketing mix of

seeds, nets and spears

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Invest early in customer success

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Build happy customers:

they scale really well

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If you have $1 to spend on

marketing, consider spending

$0.75 on customer success

Need new pic

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Iterated MVP is insufficient:

emphasize experience,

design & quality

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Expand your productization

and monetization models

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Build for the billion.

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More long-term focus: design a

business with multi-billion potential

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Raise money earlier, but use

disruptive tools like AngelList for a

higher shareholder count

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Build a more ambitious

product footprint

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Hire a stronger executive team

early, but with room to grow.

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Hire a stronger executive team

early, but with room to grow.

Creating the billion$ SaaS category:Zero to IPO secrets from a serial entrepreneur

Mark Organ, Influitive, CEO

@markorgan

@influitive