Sixteen Ventures

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Customer Success teams continually strive to advocate for their significance, often finding themselves undervalued by other departments. Heads of Customer Success are no strangers to this feeling, and while the importance of their roles is crystal clear to them, they sometimes feel isolated in this perspective. This sentiment isn’t a reflection of their desire to […] The post Every Department Must Recognize the Value of Customer Success appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by Li

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The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Acquiring customers is a challenge. If you can use sales and marketing data to help you tell which products attract a potential. The post Salespanel Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Any founder you talk to likely remembers every investor who said no to them. Those founders hold a special kind of “not hatred,” says Michael Seibel, Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator, but a special kind of something for those investors and a desire to prove them wrong. If you’re a seed-stage startup, Michael shares the best ways for you to present your company to startup investors.

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The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Running an ecommerce business, you simply need your website’s search experience to work. If customers can’t quickly find the products they want, The post Luigi’s Box Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So how are the top SaaS and Cloud companies doing in 2023? Bessemer’s latest Cloud 100 answers the question. Their top 100 SaaS and Cloud companies — the “Cloud 100” — are almost all at $100m+ ARR, and growing on average 55% year-over-year. Now that’s still pretty darn impressive at $100m+ ARR. But in 2022, they were growing 100% annually: The impacts aren’t even, however.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Over the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with chaining together large language models. I dictate emails & blog posts often. Recently, I started using Whisper for drafting emails and documents. (Initially there were some issues with memory management, but I’ve since found a compiled version that works well on my Mac called whisper.cpp ) After tying Google’s Duet I wondered if I could replicate something similar.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In SaaS, the B2B marketing funnel forms the backbone of any successful product and marketing team. It attracts people (who’d otherwise be strangers) to become your customers. It helps you visualize the customer journey. Best of all, it compounds its ROI as you start iterating strategies and optimizing your marketing process. But how can you use it?

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Nimble - Sales

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Have you been tasked with picking a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for your small business? Then you looked at the market leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot and then started comparing them to other, easier-to-use and cheaper alternatives. Because let’s be honest, we all want a CRM that: Your team will actually use Won’t cost […] The post Nimble CRM or HubSpot: The Complete 2023 Comparison Guide appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Product demos are a crucial part of the sales process. This is true whether you’re adopting a sales-led or product-led growth approach. They allow businesses to showcase their products and demonstrate how the product can solve a prospective customer’s problems. An effective demo can, thus, help you generate leads and close deals. In this article, we discuss what a product demo is, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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Nimble - Sales

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Have you been tasked with picking a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for your small business? Then you looked at the market leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot and then started comparing them to other, easier-to-use and cheaper alternatives. Because let’s be honest, we all want a CRM that: Your team will actually use Won’t cost […] The post Nimble CRM or HubSpot: The Complete 2023 Comparison Guide appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So recently a sales leader I really like reached out to me regarding his next role. He’d recently resigned from a startup I knew reasonably well, and where I’d met the founder. I was happy to help. Until I looked at his LinkedIn and saw that while I thought he’d been there for a while … but it was just 1 Year 7 Months per LinkedIn.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Introduction Effective customer service brings 86% of the customers back to a brand as long-term accounts. Being of such importance, companies are relying on client partners to do a strategic and effective job of customer service. The role of a client partner is crucial and complicated. Such a role involves working very closely with the clients to understand their requirements, end goals, and expectations.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Back in Vancouver after a month in NYC. Timely return with this weekend being Canadian Thanksgiving – Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadians out there. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Grateful for you all – Canadians and non-Canadians of course. Also grateful that the GTMfund team is growing – we had Sophie Buonassisi, our new VP of Marketing, start this week.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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