Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 22, 2017
A founder asked me if we had reached the point that SaaS is commodified. “Can you build a venture scale SaaS company anymore?” He made three key points to support the argument. First, the technology barriers to starting a SaaS company continue to fall. Amazon, Google and Microsoft provide sophisticated, scalable, and easy to use infrastructure as a service.
Chart Mogul
AUGUST 23, 2017
I wrote a blog post back in November 2014 about the reasons for choosing Berlin (over London) as the city to launch ChartMogul from. When I wrote the original post I’d only had around three months of living in Berlin to form an opinion. This follow-up is an attempt to give a more thorough look at the pros and cons of starting a SaaS startup in Berlin, drawing from the past three years of experience.
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Totango
AUGUST 23, 2017
Customer Success Summit is the industry-leading conference on customer success because it brings together experienced customer success professionals and industry thought-leaders, as well as research institutes for industry benchmarking. To that end, one of the keynotes from #CSSummit17 was Thomas E. Lah, Executive Director at TSIA, a for-profit research institute that does deep operational benchmarking with member companies.
Entrepreneur - SaaS
AUGUST 25, 2017
Adjusting to the unexpected is good. Winging it from beginning to end is not.
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Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 20, 2017
We’ve seen quite a bit of volatility in the valuations of publicly traded software companies over the last 5 years. In 2014, the average software company traded at 7.7x forward revenues - the sum of projected revenues over the next 12 months. Two years later, that multiple dropped 57% to 3.3x. Today, we’re exactly where we were in 2013, at 5.4x, which is coincidentally, is the average over this time period.
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CloseSaaS
AUGUST 21, 2017
If you’re doing inside sales, you know that a phone call can be an incredibly effective tool to reach out to potential customers and close deals.
Mattermark
AUGUST 23, 2017
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The Angel VC
AUGUST 25, 2017
Over the last couple of weeks and months we spent some time putting our investment thesis on paper. The purpose of this exercise was to challenge and discuss our implicit assumptions and to get everyone on our team aligned on what kind of investments we seek. One of the things that being very clear about our investment focus helps with is getting to “no” faster.
A Smart Bear
AUGUST 22, 2017
Product teams have been repeating the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mantra for a decade now, without re-evaluating whether it’s the right way to maximize learning while pleasing the customer. Well, it’s not the best system. It’s selfish and it hurts customers. We don’t build MVPs at WP Engine. The motivation behind the MVP is still valid: Build something small, because small things are predictable and inexpensive to test.
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CloseSaaS
AUGUST 23, 2017
There’s no question that inside sales can be a challenge.
Mattermark
AUGUST 24, 2017
What Makes a Good Pitch? Sarah Guo at Greylock Partners has put together an in-depth guide to help answer this question, emphasizing that the point of a tight deck is not just to “sell” potential investors, but to ensure a founder understands their own value proposition. “ What Do I Look For in a Pitch? ” explains not only how to structure a narrative, but explicitly identifies the aspects of the business that are crucial to being successful in growing a company fueled by
Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth
AUGUST 22, 2017
In my sales enablement role at HubSpot I'm truly privileged to partner with over 100 sales professionals that are at the top of their game and only want to get better. Working with sales reps that want to succeed and push each other to do better is a joy. Unlike other parts of the business, it’s relatively uncommon for sales enablement to reveal how they work with the sales organisation to hit quota and help the company to grow.
Mattermark
AUGUST 21, 2017
This is a special “it’s August and if you’re not on vacation you spent your morning looking at the sky” edition of the Mattermark Daily. We’ll keep it brief. From the Operators. Daniel Debow of Helpful discusses how founders and marketers can win in their product positioning and messaging when they “ P**s people off ( but only at the right time ) ” Margot Mazur of Wistia offers up advice on how to help a diverse set of remote employees be successful in &
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Mattermark
AUGUST 22, 2017
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