Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

PE is now a giant industry—from its humble beginnings with spreadsheets and junk debt to almost $5 trillion of assets. Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge.

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VP of Engineering AI Payment Methods Generative AI 94

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Ideally, this is a mid-level digital marketer or content creator who can help develop a library of assets that can inspire and educate potential customers. . So many founders in their heart of hearts believe what they’re building is totally unique and will completely disrupt their category. The world does not lack ambitious founders.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Sales 171

Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

…or why this software investor has a crush on hardware It’s hard to find a VC who doesn’t love software, and for good reason. Software is also a lovely thing to scale. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades. But what about hardware?

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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In general terms, assets are anything of value owned by someone or something. Assets can be anything from a building to a copyright. They are items that can be converted into cash, and assets can be owned by an individual, company, or government. Properties of an Asset How do you keep track of assets?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

The most common problem with a partner tech stack is failing to overcome data silos both internally and externally, and a good Partner Operations manager will be able to fix this. Like with other revenue driving tech stacks, a partner tech stack has keystone software as well as best-in-breed solutions that integrate with the main software.

Payments 100

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 100

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We’re thrilled to announce that Frontegg was named a G2 Best Software Award Winner, placing #26 on the Top Security Products list alongside other best-in-class tools, such as Okta, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, GitLab, IBM Security Verify, Snyk, Datadog, and GitHub. Frontegg treats security as a top priority.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review CTO 52

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. As the likes of Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found, creating an entirely new category can be a lucrative business.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Tom Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

Traditional software was initially sold by perpetual license. Freemium companies provide software for free temporarily to entice users to try and use the product. SaaS Enabled Marketplaces, like Contently, charge for both software (content management tools) and access to a market place (of content producers).

Software 100

Software Marketing SaaS Startup 100

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Last week Forrester Research published its market research report titled “Best Practices For Software-As-A-Service Operations.” As the pioneer of the SaaSOps category, we at BetterCloud could not be more thrilled about this. The biggest issue for IT managers? The report states “SaaS usage can be invisible to IT managers.

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DevOps as a Service Government SaaS Cloud 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

This article will cover what expenses you should track, and how you can calculate and manage them over time. Sales & Marketing, General & Admin, and Research & Development Total Expenses Ratio Managing Total Expenses. This method can also help flush out hidden costs like the software subscription trial you forgot to cancel.

Payment Methods 85

Payment Methods Management Payment Solutions Payments 85

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed share of dollars commanded by each of these 16 categories over the last five years to understand the trends in both the seed and series A fundraising markets.

Startup 113

Startup Marketplace as a Service Social Media Advertising 113

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Choosing great products to promote is about more than just picking categories that are generally aligned with your blog. Software like Quantcast can show you this data or use the Demographics and Interests feature in Google Analytics. If you have a Facebook page, you can go to “Manage Page” > “Insights:”. Use them wisely.

Strategy 134

Strategy Marketing Social Media Software Review 134

Scytale

JANUARY 31, 2024

Type of SOC 2 Report Initiating the SOC 2 project requires a comprehensive understanding from the project team, management, and leadership regarding the type of SOC 2 report they want to pursue. Additional criteria categories, relevant to your industry and organizational services, can be chosen for a SOC 2 engagement.

compliance 52

compliance SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Healthcare 52

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Its platform enables engineers, architects, and project managers to communicate and collaborate in the construction supply chain network. Pin People solves this by helping organizations manage the employee experience at every stage of their journey in the organization. Don’t hold back, this is a rare opportunity. Founded : 2014.

Startup 210

Startup Artificial Intelligence SaaS Construction 210

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

With two of the most popular categories sold being physical and digital products, physical goods appear to be an easy win for retail chains or consumer electronics companies. Additionally, because digital products exist as either a digital asset or piece of software, they can easily be reproduced and repeatedly sold without manufacturers.

Marketplace as a Service 65

Marketplace as a Service Software Engineering Software Development 65

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Elite software companies are beating the gold standard of performance and pointing the way for others to follow. Even with recent stock market fluctuations, the growth and profitability of leading software companies remain strong by historical standards. Category champions. Effectively manage sales and marketing expenses.

Scale 52

Scale Software Cybersecurity Government 52

User Pilot

JUNE 29, 2023

This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. There’s an important distinction between documentation intended for your end users, and the more technical docs leveraged by developers and software architects.

Management 90

Management Technical Review Software Review Customer Support 90

FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2018

With the rise of ecommerce, there are now more products sold online than ever before, with two of the most popular categories sold being physical and digital products. Are you an artist, author, software engineer, or maybe just a hobbyist in your field? A report conducted by Software.org reveals that software contributed more than $1.14

Marketplace as a Service 61

Marketplace as a Service Software Technology Software Engineering 61

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. All great Product Managers and all great Designers have strong Product Judgment. For example, at Intercom we build customer communication software.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 4, 2022

Architecting the customer success organization and solutions to leverage and grow in support of our revenue goals, including finding the correct balance of services and support for our many customer categories – Large Enterprise, Mid-market, and SMB. And your retention goal for that category will almost certainly be very high.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Customer Lifetime Value Interviewing 52

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s why the target clientele for each category is slightly different. Other features include syntax correction and highlighting, autocompletion, project management, and Teletype (users can collaborate with other developers in real-time). This editor is a closed source software, designed to work within the Adobe ecosystem.

Software Review 122

Software Review Web Development Web Developers Systems Review 122

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Now, there’s 5,000 and 2,799 of them were horizontal software companies and one was Veeva.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 147

Neil Patel

JANUARY 10, 2021

Then we’ll take a look at what to consider as you decide on which provider you want to manage your employee retirement plan. Qualified employee retirement plans—that is, those that have tax advantages—fall in two major categories, only one of which is used widely today: Defined benefits plans are managed entirely by employers.

Compensation 115

Compensation Government Investment Pricing 115

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

SaaS Community Marketing: 11 stories from software companies. 1 Matej Kukucka, Head of Marketing at LiveAgent (Help desk software) says: “ We run our community on Facebook because it’s where most of the SaaS communities are being hosted. . #2 Our community is focused on social media managers and agency professionals. .

Marketing 98

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Because it’s one of the most underutilized marketing assets out there. If that’s all you’re using Excel for, you’re not utilizing the software to its full potential. A pivot table could display averages about complaints by category, location, date purchased, and any other fields that you have. Set your goals and objects.

Data 136

Data Marketing Scale Social Media 136

BetterCloud

MAY 29, 2019

There are a number of different published frameworks (Trust Service Principles for SOC 2, CSA CCM, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, CIS Controls) that outline guidelines and best practices to manage security risks. How are they managing those rules? Do they have a good process for taking inventory of their assets?

Software Review 68

Software Review compliance SaaS Systems Review 68

User Pilot

JUNE 6, 2023

Product data analytics and product management are inseparable. Apart from product teams, product analytics benefit product marketing managers , UX designers , customer success managers, and developers. Customer success managers use product analytics data to better understand customer needs, preferences, and challenges.

Data 65

Data User Experience Churn Retention 65

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

A simple way to access these is to do a LinkedIn search on the job title of the persona, say for example “marketing manager”, where connections = 1st, location = the city you reside in. How do they describe the category? Managing the first sales meeting. What features are most appealing?

Startup 178

Startup Sales SaaS Systems Review 178

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

When bootstrapping a business, you are using your personal assets—cash, of course, but also your garage, home office, personal car, laptop, and anything else you can extract value from—to build and expand your business. If you both provide valuable software, maybe this is a good way to reduce your cash expense.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gartner announced last week another double-digit year of IT spend growth forecasted for enterprise software at 11% to $672B in 2022 and 11.9% in 2023 (the highest growth compared to other tech categories). A comeback in valuations won’t impact high-quality assets. The Cost Associated with that Time. G&A Spend in IPO Year.

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Venture Capital Cybersecurity Forecasting Finance 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

While technology delivers a positive impact, talent remains the primary and most valuable asset of any sales organization. To make things more organized, we’ve classified the most in-demand qualities of sales professionals into the following categories: Sales Skills – these are learned and applied abilities. So is yours.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Social Media 102

OpenView Labs

APRIL 1, 2020

This is why most companies don’t ever get there, even if they’ve managed to find a product-market fit. As a Content & SEO agency working with clients who belong to that category, we’ve identified the following areas you should focus on. A good example is Moosend , who started as email marketing software.

Scale 43

Scale Education Scaling Product Marketing 43

ProfitWell

JULY 20, 2020

SaaS companies sell their software on monthly subscription models, whereby the user has to pay a monthly fee to continue using the software. For example, the balance sheet doesn't feature assets or inventory since most of these companies don't keep any. Both categories of revenue have to be identified and valued.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Deferred Revenue Payment Solutions Payment Services 59

BetterCloud

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s a fairly broad category of technologies enforcing policies regarding any type of cloud service including platforms as a service, infrastructure as a service, and of course, software as a service. Each group has different security concerns and SaaS management challenges. Second, what is a SaaSOps platform?

Cloud 40

Cloud Technology User Experience compliance 40

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

After several years of price inflation in most assets, many investors are expecting a recession in the near term. We will also see the proliferation of projects aiming to tokenize real assets, from fine art to real estate and automobiles, amongst other things. on how we engage with their software (e.g.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2020

To help, we’re going to cover every aspect of sales management during a crisis, starting with how to lay the groundwork ahead of time. In situations where you can, you need to develop a crisis management plan to minimize potential impact and help you stay on course. It is critical to prepare now for the crises of tomorrow.

Management 81

Management Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 81

Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Mark Eckstein , Revenue Enablement Manager at Bizzabo, explains it like this: You need to understand the challenge or problem that management wants you to solve. From those conversations, you can identify the divergence between management and employees — which will help you make recommendations and set priorities.

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Sales Enablement Scale Sales Hiring Sales 88