Playbooks

Introducing the Work-Bench Enterprise Playbook Library

Over our decade helping fund, grow, and support early-stage enterprise software startups, we’ve seen the most difficult challenges and the most tactical solutions for scaling an enterprise startup.

Work-Bench

Jan 10, 2023

The Sales Playbook That Turbocharged Outreach from $0 to $200M ARR

Our November NY Enterprise Tech Meetup focused on a topic we’re particularly passionate about at Work-Bench: enterprise sales and go-to-market tactics.

Work-Bench

Nov 15, 2022

5 Experiments To Find a Winning Developer Acquisition Strategy

For this Work-Bench Masterclass, we hosted Martin Gontovnikas, General Partner and B2B Growth Advisor at HyperGrowth Partners and former SVP Marketing and Growth at Auth0.

Work-Bench

Oct 21, 2022

Living Up to the Hype: How To Enable Hypergrowth with PLG with Snyk, MongoDB, Elemental & Pace

After 2 years of virtual Meetups, we finally closed out of Zoom and got back to action at our first IRL NY Enterprise Tech Meetup since the pandemic!

Work-Bench

Sep 27, 2022

3 Acts of Growth: Lessons, Patterns & Mistakes from a 3x Entrepreneur

The founder journey typically comprises of conquering product-market fit, go-to-market fit, and then scaling.

Work-Bench

Aug 10, 2022

The Founder’s Guide to Announcing a Seed Round

Closing a Seed round is a huge milestone for any startup.

Kira Colburn

Jun 10, 2022

Security For Enterprise Startups To Scale & Sell

In this post, I set up useful guardrails that early stage (Series A or earlier) startups should consider when building their security programs that I’ve gathered from experts in the security community and elsewhere.

Kelley Mak

May 5, 2022

3 Proven Community Strategies to Grow Open Source Businesses

This post was originally published on The Data Source, my monthly newsletter covering the top innovation in data infrastructure, engineering and developer-first tooling. Subscribe here and never miss an issue!

Priyanka Somrah

Apr 19, 2022

Enterprise Tech Operator Masterclass: How to Launch a Demand Gen Campaign on a Seed Dime

We’re excited to introduce our new event series brought to you by our NY Enterprise Tech Meetup — the Enterprise Operator Masterclass!

Work-Bench

Apr 12, 2022

How To Handle VC Inbound After Raising A Seed Round

First of all, congrats! After putting in the tremendous hard work of getting your enterprise startup off the ground and gaining some traction, you’ve closed your Seed round.

Jonathan Lehr

Mar 16, 2022

10th Anniversary NY Enterprise Tech Meetup: How the CEO of Attentive Navigated a Massive Pivot to Find Product Market Fit

This month, we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of our NY Enterprise Tech Meetup! To honor our New York roots, we welcomed Brian Long, CEO and Co-Founder of one of NYC’s most exciting giants, Attentive, to our Zoom stage.

Work-Bench

Mar 1, 2022

How Should Enterprise Startups Navigate Today’s Changing Seed World?

As the late stage investing landscape becomes more and more chaotic, the battleground for VCs has largely shifted to early stage. Today, there’s more institutional capital than ever chasing Series A’s from firms like Tiger Global and Insight Partners in addition to traditional Silicon Valley VCs.

Jonathan Lehr

Feb 25, 2022

6 Tactics on How to Fuse Product & Enterprise Sales for PLG Success

At Work-Bench, we know customers are like oxygen for early-stage startups.

Work-Bench

Aug 12, 2021

The 5 Step Framework for Building a Product Led Business

This month, Work-Bench, OpenView, Primary Venture Partners and Lerer Hippeau hosted the second of its four-part SaaS Growth Camp

Work-Bench

Feb 25, 2021

How to Best Prepare an Enterprise Sales Pipeline Review for Your Investors

As enterprise investors here at Work-Bench, investing at Seed II stage, we are obsessed with all things go-to-market and working alongside our founders to refine their early GTM and sales engine.

Jessica Lin

Oct 20, 2020

Dear Enterprise Startups, Not All Customer Intros Are Equal

These Are the Doors You Should be Knocking On

Jonathan Lehr

Jul 13, 2019

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