TechEmpower SaaS
AUGUST 7, 2023
What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product.
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 6, 2023
What will a venture capital turnaround feel like? Will it be gradual or sudden? What will change the sentiment in the market? In 2008, I had just become a venture capitalist. Three months later, Lehman fell & the Global Financial Crisis started. CNBC played in the lobby of our office & I remember watching domino tip domino into a cascading collapse.
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Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 8, 2023
Michelle Vu joins the Predictable Revenue Podcast to discuss: Conscious Leadership, Collaborative Culture, and the Six Pillars of Culture. The post Conscious Leadership and Collaborative Culture with Michelle Vu appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
User Pilot
AUGUST 5, 2023
Are your NPS passives holding your product or service’s growth back? NPS (Net Promoter Score) passives are customers who have moderate feedback about your product but are not enthusiastic supporters. Unlocking the potential of these indifferent users can be a game-changer for your business. Turning the NPS passives into promoters can improve user sentiment , retention rate, and customer loyalty.
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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?
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 10, 2023
With eyes glued to screens the world over, video continues to reign supreme as the go-to medium for grabbing attention, building brand. The post InVideo Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Sparktoro
AUGUST 9, 2023
In the not-too-distant future, we’ll look back at the days when a full 1/3rd of Google searches resulted in a free click to the open web and marvel at how good we had it. For the last few months, Google’s been telegraphing that generative AI answers will soon appear in search results.
Mucker Capital
AUGUST 9, 2023
As part of Mucker’s ongoing Growth Series Webinars, we recently invited Eric Carrell , founder of DoFollow.io , to dig into the world of SEO, especially in the link-building space. A recap of the conversation is listed below, as well as the full webinar recording. The Importance of Links in Ranking Links are often considered the infrastructure of the internet.
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
We’re doing a new series on SaaStr on what break-out SaaS startups, scale-ups and leaders are seeing out there and first up is Michael Grinich, CEO of WorkOS. Our deep dive includes: What it takes to be “enterprise-ready” today Build vs. Buy in 2023 The stakeholders in a B2D motion Nailing pricing as you go upmarket And much more! You can dig in below now and soon on the pod: The post Michael Grinich, CEO of WorkOS: What It Takes To Sell In the Enterprise Today appeared first o
Sixteen Ventures
AUGUST 8, 2023
You know the feeling – it’s a shared frustration among many in Customer Success. Another seemingly ‘bad fit’ customer is passed to us, and we’re left questioning the Sales team’s understanding of what a good fit really is. It’s easy to think: “Why can’t they just get it right?” But perhaps we’re addressing this from […] The post Aligning Customer Success and Sales: Bridging the Great Divide appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by L
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The Daily Egg
AUGUST 7, 2023
Sometimes you just need a decent-looking website and you need it yesterday. Whether it’s a landing page for an imminent marketing campaign, The post Strikingly Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Clouded Judgement
AUGUST 11, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Datadog Consumption This week we got another earnings report from a key consumption player: Datadog’s Q2. On the surface, it wasn’t good. They narrowly beat estimates for Q2, and then guided Q3 below consensus.
SaaStr
AUGUST 10, 2023
Harry and I did our latest deep dive on 20VC the other day and there’s a lot in it! “Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr one of the best-performing early-stage venture funds focused on SaaS. In the past, Jason has led investments in Algolia, Pipedrive, Salesloft, TalkDesk, and RevenueCat to name a few. Prior to SaaStr, Jason was an entrepreneur, selling EchoSign to Adobe for $100M where it is now a $250M ARR product.
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 7, 2023
Carta released their state of the market report. A few data points stood out to me Downrounds constitute 20% of all rounds, up 2x from historical norms. Bridge rounds account for 38% of all rounds in Q2. Cooley reported 2.9% of rounds recapitalized the company. Recaps effectively delete the previous cap table & start a new one. These are all signs of the harder fundraising times.
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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.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 9, 2023
The next generation of the workforce is being shaped by e-learning platforms. Companies need to keep pace with this modern way of. The post Continu Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
User Pilot
AUGUST 9, 2023
Wondering how to calculate customer retention rate and why? It’s important to measure the customer retention rate to see how well your product retains customers and to monitor any changes to try and improve it. In this article, we’ll cover how to calculate retention rate, other key customer retention metrics, and how you can improve your retention rates.
SaaStr
AUGUST 10, 2023
Dear SaaStr: How Can You Grow a SaaS Startup Without Spending a Ton on Sales and Marketing? It’s hard but it can be done. A few examples: Mailchimp was bootstrapped to $1,000,000,000 in ARR Qualtrics was bootstrapped to a $6B acquisition Atlassian was bootstrapped all the way to … today $30B+ Veeva is very enterprise but only spent ~$3m in true venture capital.
Agile Payments
AUGUST 5, 2023
For part-time traders, the forex market can be difficult, leading to missed chances and the possibility of missed trades.
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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.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 11, 2023
There’s no denying that data is driving our world and the businesses in it more than ever before—and if you own a. The post Lebesgue Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
User Pilot
AUGUST 5, 2023
How can you leverage data tracking to get product growth insights ? Analyzing data is the key to achieving customer success and product growth. The actionable insights from the analyses will help you better understand the user journey, improve your company’s bottom line, and optimize the user experience. So let’s find out how to create a data tracking plan to collect and analyze all data relevant to your SaaS business.
SaaStr
AUGUST 9, 2023
Ok we’ll keep this page and list updated all the way through 2023 SaaStr Annual on Sep 6-8 in SF Bay Area!! This is just an early start: Tuesday, Sep 5: The Night Before Annual ChartMogul and Cladera are hosting a pre-Annual cocktail party at one of our favorite spots, Fogbird in downtown San Mateo just minutes from the venue. Sign up here.
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 11, 2023
When a platform shift reshapes the technology landscape, who wins? From mainframes to PCs, desktop to mobile, unnetworked to internet, and on-prem to cloud and SaaS, technical progress in software tends to follow Schumpeter’s creative destruction : new winners emerge … The post The Race to Capture Value: Cloud Lessons for the AI Era appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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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.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 10, 2023
Remote and hybrid workplaces know that effective communication between team members is priority number one. Without it, tasks don’t get done, people. The post Chanty Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
User Pilot
AUGUST 6, 2023
How do you calculate marketing automation ROI? More importantly, how can marketing teams maximize it? If you’re after the answers to these questions, you’re in the right place! On top of that, our article: Defines what marketing automation is. Explains why it’s worth investing in. Identifies the areas of marketing that you can automate.
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
So there’s a sort of org chart you’ll probably end up with at least twice as you start scaling in SaaS: The “Headless” Sales Org. What’s that? It’s a bunch of sales reps without anyone to manage them other than … you. There are basically two times I see this happening, and it happens to most of us: First, when you are just getting going, and doing founder-led sales, you start off “Headless” Your job as founders is to close the first 10, 20, 50 customers yourself, then bring on a few reps, then
Agile Payments
AUGUST 8, 2023
ACH API integration for SaaS platforms offers multiple benefits to the platforms end users.
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
Entrepreneur - SaaS
AUGUST 9, 2023
The company will use the additional funds for product innovation and enrichment, international business expansion, and capturing other BFSI industry segments
User Pilot
AUGUST 10, 2023
In a dynamic and fast-evolving world, understanding where you can leverage automation is important: behavioral marketing automation is quickly becoming a valuable skill for product marketing professionals. In this guide, we’ll explore what behavior-based marketing automation is, how you can use behavioral segmentation to appeal to your target audience, and the right tools for the job.
SaaStr
AUGUST 7, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Do CEOs of big companies answer and read emails by themselves, or their assistant? Are they working on a PC at all or are they just attending meetings? This is such a great question. I remember wondering the very same thing when my last startup was acquired by Adobe. Yes, I was a VP then, but there were SVPs and EVPs and Presidents and more above me.
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