SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Lack of network effects / marketplace dominance risk. A lot of VCs are looking for structural reasons you can win and dominate your category. Network effects in your product, a marketplace element, or at least some tech/product/non-sales driven reason your app automatically gets more and more dominant as it scales.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 338

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

It provides insights into the latest trends, best practices, and networking opportunities in the SaaS space. SaaS North: SaaS North is Canada’s largest SaaS conference, featuring keynote speakers, workshops, and networking opportunities, aimed at promoting the growth and success of SaaS companies in North America.

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ChatGPT AWS SaaS CTO 214

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The first thing she did was hire three experienced in-network hires, all top-performing SDRs from her previous company, Lever. These were already experienced SDRs, and they were in-network — two points worth noting. Start in-network and with the networks of the existing team. AEs can also leverage their networks.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 171

SaaStr

MAY 28, 2021

To be a Successful SaaS Company — which is very hard today, because there are 10,000+ SaaS start-ups everywhere in every category — you need: A very, very committed CEO and co-founders. Because there’s no magical network effect in SaaS. Try to join one in the second category if you can. Product-market fit.

SaaS 314

SaaS Market Segmentation Product Marketing Marketing 314

Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

There are six key categories of players. Because different tokens support different chains, there are network effects at play. Software spans many categories. There is also a category called oracles which provide API endpoints to supply smart contracts with data. How does crypto work at the highest level?

Outsourced Development 267

Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service Banking Construction 267

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Many founders struggle to apply this same framework for network effect businesses though, and it’s easy to see why. In this post, I’ll break down the nuances of product/market fit for network effects businesses to understand if you’re on the right track. Cross-Side Network Effects (Marketplaces and Platforms).

Product Marketing 131

Product Marketing Marketing Scale Software Review 131

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. Professional colleagues/network. Their analysis was focused primarily on the growth of software categories in the go-to-market space. Independent experts and peers are most valued.

Software Review 187

Software Review Software Azure Cloud 187

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2021

Once a category is established, 80% of prospects just want to buy whatever is proven. You’ll start off recruiting your friends, and finally finding a VP or two through your network. A sales team is doing well, making lots of money, and hitting its plan … tends to become a magnet for other reps looking for something great.

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Sales Recruiting Branding Investment Sales 280

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S., and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. And both had the potential to establish network effects if they were successful. First, there was a LOT to like about the company: The market size was, and remains, huge.

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees.

Payment Services 359

Payment Services Metrics Payment Solutions Payments 359

Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

And just like that, the company has built a data mesh: a network of producers and consumers of data who share data via standard APIs or open-source formats like Apache Arrow & Parquet. Innovators in this category include Preset, Streamlit, and Tecton among others. Data systems rely on data from other teams.

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Trends Data Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 344

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Exclusive CEO + CXO Networking – Apply to Attend. Curated, invite-only networking . How to qualify for the Exclusive Networking at the Enterprise Summit: A CEO at a SaaS or Cloud company with $20M – $2B ARR, selling to the enterprise; OR. If you fall into one of these categories, Apply to Attend. Apply to Attend.

Enterprise 157

Enterprise B2B Venture Capital Cloud 157

Totango

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We are delighted to share that Totango was recognized in the G2 Winter 2024 reports for its exemplary performance in the customer success software category. Totango’s high score from G2 users not only underscores our efficient implementation but also sets a best-in-class benchmark for other software in the customer success category.

Software Review 108

Software Review Technical Review User Experience Enterprise 108

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

On Category Creation. From the beginning, Airtable convinced themselves that they had a different category of product through the creation of a software creation platform that anyone can use. It’s more a matter of “when” not “if” to change the bottoms up adoption in order to be able to layer on higher and higher sales enterprises.

Scale 192

Scale Software Review Scaling Sales Hiring 192

Stax

JANUARY 31, 2024

Visa is one of the biggest payment networks in the world, with ~4.2B They cover the costs of managing the network, ensuring security, and facilitating the transfer of funds between banks. TL;DR Interchange rates are the fees charged by credit card networks. It’s organized by merchant category code (MCC).

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Accept Credit Card Payments 88

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

There are opportunities in all these layers, but there are considerations for each: Infrastructure Layer: This includes databases, networking, & compute. Chips New computation and networking for training AI models. Github (coding), Harvey (legal), Lilt (translation) Agents: This is the newest category. GPT, Llama).

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Generative AI AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 175

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. Coining a category that disrupted an industry. Proven strategies for creating a transformative category.

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Venture Capital Advertising Communication Branding 211

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 15, 2023

07:22 – Hitting #1 09:30 – Staying on top 11:20 – Building a sticky product 13:46 – Growing an app in 2023 15:35 – User-generated growth 17:48 – 2022 category winners 20:39 – Anonymous social 22:24 – Early monetization 26:30 – Monetization trends 31:07 – Leveraging platform shifts 35:26 – (..)

AI 85

AI Trends Development 85

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Credit card processing fees, both those charged by card networks and by payment processors impact your bottom line. However, interchange fees can vary depending on the type of card, the card network, and the merchant’s category. While you can’t technically lower the fees set by card networks and banks (i.e.,

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Stax Payment Methods 88

yoursales

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Here are the countries in the Very High Proficiency category: Countries in the 2022 EF EPI’s Very High Proficiency category. We only recommend considering English as a selling language in MOST the top 10 of the Very High Proficiency category*. * Belgium has landed a 6th place in the Very High Proficiency category in the EPI.

B2B 90

B2B Sales Hiring SaaS Sales 90

Neil Patel

JUNE 18, 2021

Key dashboard information to pay attention to includes: your SSI score the score for each of the four components how your SSI compares to your industry how it compares to your network. The final metric is all about network management. You need a big network to succeed on LinkedIn. LinkedIn Social Selling Index Metrics.

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Social Media Benchmarks Metrics Branding 124

SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest. Today she chairs the Ellevate Network and is CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Banking 220

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e., Fraud detection.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services 78

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

GTMfund is an exclusive network of proven revenue leaders investing in the next wave of SaaS. When you look at how to segment your audience for messaging, consider these three broad categories: Industry: This is your wider audience that cares about who you are and what you do. Category: These are your decision-makers.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI Social Media 88

Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

If your solopreneur venture falls within one of these categories, consider Twitter a worthy text-first social platform. In particular, LinkedIn marketing is popular among coaches and consultants who are likely to generate business from their professional networks. In fact, your posts will only reach a small minority of your audience.

Social Media 92

Social Media Scale Growth Hacking Headcount 92

Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The breadth and depth of their expertise, as well as their networks in the sector, will really help us grow Trint in 2021 and beyond.” Trint will focus its 2021 strategy on rapid product innovation as it continues to build out a new market category it calls StoryTech. and speech-to-text could do the heavy lifting of transcription.

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Investment Artificial Intelligence Banking Entertainment 130

Buffer Resources

JULY 13, 2023

However, you likely fall into the latter category, and growing from scratch is harder. Build community by making connections Your LinkedIn network needs to be filled with people likely interested in what you share and will engage. As you work your way up to the wider network, don’t hesitate to connect with people.

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Engagement Branding Investment Social Media 83

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If you define content pillars and create according to them, you can better control how you appear in search engines by creating to match certain categories and keywords relevant to your content.  Out → In: Start with broader terms that pique your interest, and drill down to find a niche within that broader category.

Social Media 117

Social Media Venture Capital AI Search Banking 117

Panintelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For the first-year in a row, finalists were recognized as part of the data-driven award categories, which were comprised of a unique set of metrics that helped measure AWS Partners’ performance within the past year. Finalists represent the top 3 ranked AWS Partners across any data-driven award set.

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AWS Innovation Business Model Metrics 64

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While many e-commerce owners focus on product home pages, it’s easy to neglect your category pages. When introducing SEO for your category pages, you aid their discoverability and encourage more traffic, which can increase sales. Tip 1: What Are Category Pages and Why Are They Important? Sound good? Why is this? Not bad, huh?

Social Media 91

Social Media Engineering Customer Lifetime Value Consulting 91

IT World

APRIL 7, 2023

In the area of data center systems, which includes servers, internal controller-based systems and networking equipment among other things, the latter is likely to prove a robust engine of growth, with Gartner predicting 8.4% According to the forecast’s author, John-David Lovelock, the data center category as a whole should rise by 3.7%

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Forecasting Software Engineering Data 64

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Social Network Specific Advanced Search. Need to find something specific on one of the top social networks ? The following search engines will allow you to search one or more social networks in one place and gain additional data about the results. Want to see how your latest blog post was shared across social networks?

Engineering 144

Engineering Entertainment Trends Technology 144

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What you will learn Narrowing the playing field and going where people aren’t as a founder Always be strategic and intentional when you go wide The importance of customer facing as a founder Making hard decisions faster will only benefit your team’s success long term Product momentum comes from working well as an executive team Highlights (..)

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Airlines CTO Innovation Engineering 88

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

We are excited to be showcasing a piece of ours at SaaStr Annual and exhibiting one of the many reasons why SalesLoft is a category leader in Sales Engagement.”.

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Scale Cloud Government B2B 244

SaaS Metrics

AUGUST 10, 2020

For someone who isn’t aware of the intricacies of networking technology, it might be difficult to differentiate between the different kinds. Additionally, the number of PCs, which are integral to their networks, need to be taken into account. Local Area Network (LAN) Simply put, a LAN is a local area network.

Technology 75

Technology 75

Infinicept

MAY 19, 2022

Payment facilitators – also known as Payfacs – operate in cooperation with acquiring banks, card networks, and the regulators who oversee the payments system. Where does Payfac responsibility come from?

Payment Services 64

Payment Services Payment Facilitation Payment Solutions Payfac 64

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In today’s episode, we sat down with Natasha to chat about managing remote teams, the challenges of creating a new category, and how planning software can help businesses create a more seamless, holistic customer experience. I think about when Intercom started, creating this category definition around live chat and the importance of that.

Scale 206

Scale Software Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 206