Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Collin Stewart sat down with John Eitel, Chief Sales Officer at Demandbase to navigate the complex terrain of entering a new market. The post Scaling the Unscalable with John Eitel appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
TechEmpower SaaS
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Cold Emails Are Not Working for My B2B SaaS Startup. What Am I Doing Wrong? We’ve all been there. The fairly crappy, “my product is so great”, outbound random email to 30–100 folks when you are trying to get your start-up off the ground. That never really works, absent extreme luck: No one has ever heard of you; You don’t yet know how to describe your value proposition compellingly in 1 line properly; and You likely are in a crowded space and there are already other solutions people
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Last week, Office Hours hosted Oliver Jay, former CRO at Asana to talk about Avoiding the PLG Trap. More than 900 people registered for the event. The full recording is here or embedded below on the web. Oliver shared some trenchant insights about his experience leading the GTM teams to success. These are three of the lessons that stood out to me espcially managing the transition from product to sales-led growth (PLG -> SLG).
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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?
Buffer Resources
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Many social media platforms are rethinking the way they reward their top creators. A blue tick or badge on social media used to mean you were someone to watch — whether that meant a creator with a growing following or a recognized public figure. But with Meta’s new verification subscription and X Premium , getting the social stamp of approval requires a lot less by way of expertise (if you’re willing to spend a bit of money every month, that is).
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Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings its own set of challenges, particularly when it comes to scaling rapidly and hiring the right executives at the right time. Drawing from their extensive experiences, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi sit down to talk about the hardest things about executive hiring and firing, and what is at stake.
User Pilot
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Product analytics are crucial for understanding user behavior, conducting conversion optimization, and improving the customer experience. A/B testing tools take that to the next level by letting you test two versions of a product flow, web page, or landing page, then see how the different versions perform. In this guide, we’ll go over the must-have features any A/B testing tool should have and walk you through 14 tools that can improve test performance in any use case!
TurnKey Labs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
TechOps, short for Technology Operations, is a pivotal force in the contemporary tech ecosystem. It serves as the linchpin that unites the worlds of development and operations, forming a dynamic bridge that facilitates seamless collaboration. In this article, we delve into the essence of TechOps, dissecting its crucial role in today’s technology landscape.
Sparktoro
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Content marketing, social media, events, PR, and marketing through sources-of-influence have consistently produced remarkable results for the companies I’ve run, and yet, most big businesses invest 1/1,000th the effort and dollars in these tactics that they do in digital advertising. Why? Measurability and scalability. Let’s dig into this challenge (and how you can invest better) with this week’s 5-Minute Whiteboard.
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 9, 2023
So a question for the ages of marketers — is a bigger booth worth it? I had my doubts after 9 years of SaaStr Annuals. I assumed they’d all perform kind of the same. But, I was wrong. The data: Qualified Leads this year ranged from 95 at lowest-yielding of almost 200 sponsors, to 1597 at the top — a wide range But on average, each Gold got 207 Qualified Leads Next up?
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Whether you’re a designer busy creating work presentations or you’re crafting sleek websites and mobile apps, you understand the importance of icons. The post Flaticon Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Clouded Judgement
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now August Inflation Update We got August inflation this week, here’s where it came in: Headline CPI 3.7% YoY vs +3.6% consensus and +3.7% YoY in Aug Core CPI 4.1% YoY vs +4.1% consensus and +4.3% in Aug Morgan Stanley CIO Survey Morgan Stanley came out with their quarterly CIO survey, and I wanted to highlight some points they made.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 13, 2023
If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. Which interfaces will win out? Which tasks will be augmented by large language models (LLMs), and which ones will be completely upended by them? How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers?
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Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How Is AI Impacting The SaaS Landscape with a16z GP Kristina Shen What To Do if Your TAM is Too Small for VCs Making Less, But Working Less. Is It Part of the New World of SaaS?
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Website owners have an option: create AI content, or employ human writers and editors. Although the idea of taking advantage of artificial. The post AIContentfy Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
OCTOBER 12, 2023
🖤 At Buffer, we’ve long aimed to default to transparency, a practice we believe helps eliminate inequality and gives everyone a greater chance of succeeding. Financial transparency is especially close to our hearts, which is why we’re proud to share Open Books, a series of small business owners giving us a peek inside their books in the spirit of being open about finances as well.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 11, 2023
At a16z Bio + Health, we are constantly looking to expand our expertise and partnerships in service of our mission to support founders pioneering transformative healthcare solutions. With the rapid pace of innovation in AI and other enabling technologies, it is crucial that we have leaders on our team with deep knowledge of how these tools can be applied to drive meaningful change.
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Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 13, 2023
How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth. Expensify is a cash-positive business and has been for five years now. Anu has spent a few years pitching Expensify and explaining its performance to investors and is often met with curious stares before someone asks, “Why would you want to be cash-positive?
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Simply starting a website, posting some content, and hoping for the best—that’s far from the best strategy. You need a high-quality SEO. The post Seobility Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Teamgate
OCTOBER 12, 2023
According to recent data, the average car buyer only visits two dealerships when looking for a new vehicle. In fact, many shoppers are taking their search online. What does this mean for you as an auto dealer? You must do what it takes to capture every lead from varying sources, including in-person or online.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 12, 2023
What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. Now, in Part B, we cover capturing and defending some portion of the value you generate.
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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.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
So times are still challenging for some, but the effects aren’t even. One SaaS leader that’s accelerating again is Shopify. At an almost $7 Billion run-rate — they’re still growing a stunning 31% on a constant-currency basis. And that’s huge acceleration from the post-Covid slowdown, when Shopify went from a crazy Covid-boosted 100% growth, to a low-teens growth rate as it crossed $5 Billion run rate.
Infinicept
OCTOBER 10, 2023
DENVER, October 10, 2023 — Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, and Payment Visor, a payment management consulting firm, today announced a partnership that brings together critical payments expertise with Infinicept’s Payfac-as-Service and embedded payments platform. Infinicept’s payments solutions, and Payment Visor’s advisory services, meet customers where they are on their.
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 10, 2023
We have a special episode this week, a community mashup with the best community leaders in the game! Pavilion ‘s SVP of Marketing, Kathleen Booth , The founder of Salesforce ‘s Trailblazer’s Community, Erica Kuhl , and The Former Director of Community for Salesforce’s Trailblazer Community as well as The Former Head of Global Community at Atlassian , Holly Firestone.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult. But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs off guard. After all, there’s not much in the way of a playbook for things like a pandemic, major swings in the global economy, and significant shifts in the employer-employee dynamic. These—along with more practical topics, such as GTM strategy and product-market fit—were among the issues discussed at our recent Connect/Enterprise event, which bro
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Dear SaaStr: How Do Founder CEOs Typically Transition Out of the Role? It’s a complicated question. Most founders that voluntarily step down tend to want to remain involved at some level, often as “Executive Chairman”. And the VCs and investors often like this. The founding CEO often has a level of fluency with the product, the markets, and the existing customers that no one else will ever have.
User Pilot
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Follow-up questions serve as a valuable hack for collecting additional feedback from your in-app surveys. But there’s a right time and place to ask survey respondents for more of their time. That’s why we made this guide, so you can fully understand what’s a wise use case for follow-up questions and how you should frame them to maximize their value.
Buffer Resources
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Everyone is focused on the YouTube Shorts algorithm as the key to growing as a creator on the platform. While it’s an important part of growth, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Instead of hyper-focusing on what you can’t control (the Algorithm ), focus on what you can – your own results. And how do you find these results?
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