by Asia Orangio | Mar 17, 2026 | Marketing, Podcast, SaaS
I’ll never forget the moment a founder told me, “I’ll just take these transcripts and tell ChatGPT to spit out jobs to be done.” We were in the middle of a jobs-to-be-done research project. We were mapping customer interviews, identifying...
by Asia Orangio | Mar 10, 2026 | Marketing, Podcast, SaaS
Marketing is the most critical growth lever in the early days—sub-$1M ARR especially. But once you stabilize? It’s not your best lever anymore. And I think this is a really hard concept for especially first-time CEOs and founders of SaaS companies to wrap...
by Asia Orangio | Mar 3, 2026 | Marketing, Podcast, SaaS
I’m going to use a term that probably doesn’t have a formal name in any textbook: value decline. I’m calling it that because it’s the easiest way to communicate what it is. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it in almost every SaaS...
by Asia Orangio | Feb 24, 2026 | Marketing, Podcast, SaaS
Every SaaS founder I talk to thinks they’ve handled activation. They’ve got an onboarding checklist. Maybe a welcome email sequence. A tooltip or two on the complicated screens. They’ve “done activation” and moved on to what feels more...
by Asia Orangio | Feb 17, 2026 | Marketing, Podcast, SaaS
Theme of 2025: Alignment DemandMaven turned eight years old on February 4th. Eight years. I’ve been running this business longer than I’ve been at any full-time, in-house role. Almost as long as my entire career before starting it. That kind of hit...