SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2024

So several times now I’ve seen the #1 sales rep that was just crushing it for quarter after quarter … then a few years down the road … later become one of the lowest performers. From #1 to the bottom of the leaderboard. And the fall often happens pretty quickly, even if at the time, it’s hard to see clearly. Not usually. Usually, the top reps, the #1 and #2 reps, they hit sort of an elite level of understanding of the process, prospects, and industry.

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Predictable Revenue

JUNE 6, 2024

This episode is about the transformative power of building connections, exemplified by a bold, cold email that sparked a pivotal career shift. The post Turning Executive Networks into Sales Wins with Drew Sechrist appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2024

So we took a look at some of the data from Emergence Capital’s survey of 600+ venture-backed software startups the other day , and they updated it with a bit more data on the Top Decline of Venture-Backed Startups Here: The summary data of the Top Decline leads to a rough conclusion: only the top 10% or so of venture-backed start-ups can likely raise another VC round.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2024

Last week, public software markets suffered significant compression. MongoDB fell 24%; UIPath fell 36% ; Salesforce fell 15% ; Workday was down 11%. Weaker revenue projections tend to cause sell-offs. These large drops aren’t unprecedented. In 2016, valuations fell 57%. Is it different this time? Growth rates have changed meaningfully. The 25th, 50th, & 75th percentiles for public growth rates have halved in the last 18-24 months.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 31, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Software Sentiment Software sentiment is incredibly low at the moment - and rightfully so. Q1 earnings have been a disaster, and they’ve gotten worse as companies with April quarters started reporting. Nearly 70% of software companies who reported Q1 with an April quarter end guided Q2 below consensus!

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 2, 2024

One line of software can impact a billion rows of data. A short SQL statement can delete a table , reformat date into the US format, or compute the average quota attainment by account executive by region over a company’s history. As data has become a critical component of analytics & production systems, data engineers require more sophisticated tools to manage their data transformations.

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Stax

JUNE 6, 2024

Accounts receivable (AR) software is a cornerstone tool in your financial operations in any business. Without a good solution place, your business could face delayed payments, increased errors, and inefficient cash flow management. That’s why choosing the right software is a must. But in a crowded market with numerous options, finding a solution that perfectly fits your needs can be challenging.

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Sparktoro

MAY 31, 2024

Recently, my good friend Wil Reynolds wrote a LinkedIn post questioning whether the recent Google Search API leak had actionable takeaways that would be applicable to customer campaigns.

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Today, we’re excited to announce Moz AI — a new set of AI-enabled tools and features you’re going to see across our products. We believe that AI-enabled tools can make you even more results-oriented, impactful, and essential. Learn more about how to use these tools in this blog post.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2024

So recently I’ve had conversations with several VPs and senior Directors at leading tech companies. I almost never ask anyone how much they make. I don’t care and it’s not me. But in this case, I was talking with folks thinking of making the jump to startups. Usually more scale-ups, at $20m+ ARR or later. But looking to make the jump.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 6, 2024

With over ten years of social media expertise, freelance social media consultant Val Razo often hears from small businesses that they lack social proof. In this article, Val explains the importance of social proof and shares tips on how small businesses can encourage social proof on Instagram. At the beginning of my social media marketing career, when I worked in a digital marketing agency and we helped global supplier of cat and dog food Royal Canin establish and maintain an Instagram presence,

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Stax

JUNE 4, 2024

Selecting the right payment processing software is crucial for any business aiming to streamline transactions and enhance customer experience. This decision impacts everything from compatibility with existing systems to security features and customer support. You should consider factors like integration capabilities, user experience, scalability, and pricing structures, to ensure a seamless and cost-effective payment process.

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Baremetrics

MAY 31, 2024

If recurring revenue is a rainbow leading to a pot of gold, then churn is the dirty leprechaun trying to keep it all from you. I’ve written before about how to reduce churn in SaaS, so I won’t rehash that here. But what I want to talk about is how we, in the past few months, reduced churn by nearly 70%.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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User Pilot

JUNE 4, 2024

The right interaction design principles can help you create intuitive, user-friendly product experiences that drive long-term retention. Today’s article shows you some of these principles and how to apply them in your UX design. Let’s get started! TL;DR Interaction design is the practice of designing digital products and interactive systems with a focus on user behavior.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin joins Dave Gerhardt on the Exit Five podcast to talk about all things marketing in SaaS: How sales and marketing had changed since 2020 What motivates people to keep going Solopreneurship Jason’s content creation process What makes a great VP of Marketing Questions every marketer and founder should ask in interviews Should the CMO report to the CRO And much more!

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

Dive into the future of digital marketing, and discover the key takeaways from our speakers in this day-one recap of MozCon 2024.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 6, 2024

A strong multiproduct strategy is a cornerstone of a credible growth story for any scaling B2B company. Depending on your goals, new products can deepen the wallet share of your existing customers by focusing on new users or new use cases, or they can expand your TAM by targeting new customers, new geographies, or new verticals. In each case, successfully launching these products means finding product-market fit all over again—but this time, you have a much slimmer margin for error.

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Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 4, 2024

Robert Brooks IV has spent 12 years leading sales, marketing and customer success at early-stage startups. Typically, he has served as the first sales (and first non-technical) hire reporting directly to a technical founder. Robert started his career at Charles Schwab but joined Stack Overflow ($1.8B exit), then Tempo Automation ($900M IPO) and is now part of the founding team and VP of Revenue at Lambda ($1.5B valuation).

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User Pilot

JUNE 5, 2024

Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases. This article shows what you should look for when choosing customer retention software and showcases 12 tools worth considering.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Is It OK To Have a 5% Response Rate in My Personalized Cold Emails? Yes. 5% isn’t a huge response rate, all things being equal. You are sending a ton of emails and perhaps they aren’t personalized enough. Still — a 5% true connect rate — where they will take a call and do a demo — for a product no one has ever heard of, is pretty good.

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

And… that’s a wrap! Catch up on the second and final day of MozCon 2024 in this day-two recap.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 4, 2024

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the value of obesity medicine practitioners, patient-centric medical homes, and how Brooke believes the metabolic health space will evolve over time. This is the second episode in our series on the science and supply of GLP-1s.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 3, 2024

There are plenty of ways to grow a strong social following, but many small business owners rely on good content and luck, overlooking approaches that could help them reach larger audiences more quickly.  By integrating other marketing tactics, specifically paid advertising , SEO (search engine optimization), and community building, into my social media strategy , I was able to grow my audience on Facebook and Instagram to 70,000.

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User Pilot

JUNE 4, 2024

Triggering post-event survey questions can significantly boost your response rates and the quality of your user feedback. But how do you know when to trigger a survey or not? Let’s explore some post-event survey examples and then explain how you can do it as well! TL;DR Post-event surveys are relevant to the experience that your users are having at the moment.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2024

Dear SaaStr: From An Investor’s Perspective, What is a “Good” Exit Strategy/Plan for a SaaS Company That’s Raising a Seed Round? Ok, people are going to tell you not to have a slide or discussion on an “exit strategy” and they are right. An “exit strategy” slide in a VC pitch deck makes you look like someone not going for it, not really.

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Sparktoro

JUNE 3, 2024

We’ve got a whole slew of new features coming to SparkToro V2, the first of which launches today. What is it: Search Modifiers is a new tab in the Keywords section that aggregates all of the terms and phrases found in Google’s search “chips” for a given query.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 6, 2024

On May 21, the California Senate passed bill 1047. This bill – which sets out to regulate AI at the model level – wasn’t garnering much attention, until it slid through an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 32 to 1 and is now queued for an assembly vote in August that would cement it into law. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha and Venture Editor Derrick Harris breakdown everything the tech community needs to know about SB-1047.

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Inturact

JUNE 4, 2024

When it comes to the SaaS landscape, understanding and predicting customer behavior is more crucial than ever. Luckily, data science provides a window into what a customer might or might not do.

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