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Dear SaaStr: Is It Ridiculous To Call Yourself the CEO When Your Startup is Tiny?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is It Ridiculous To Call Yourself the CEO When Your Startup is Tiny? I used to feel that way, at least a bit. I used to look at tiny little startups and wince when a founder went around talking about himself as “CEO”. But then I had to learn how to Sell to Big Customers, and Sell to Power. And what I learned is customers care. Customers and prospects want to talk to the CEO.

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Clouded Judgement 9.29.23 - Rates Keep Going Up

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Rates Keep Going Up Rates continue to push higher, as the aftershock of the Fed’s “Higher for Longer!!” messaging reverberates through the markets. Yesterday the 10Y hit 4.7% which was up from it’s high of ~4.5% last week.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? It’s a good question.

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AccessAlly Review

The Daily Egg

For this software, you’re going to need two things: one, be an online coach, trainer, or course creator, and two, know how. The post AccessAlly Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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The Best Product Strategy Is a Customer-Facing Portfolio Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Avoiding the PLG Trap : Office Hours with Oliver Jay

Tom Tunguz

On October 5th at 9:30am Pacific time, Office Hours will host Oliver Jay , former CRO at Asana & executive at Dropbox. Having worked at two of the most successful bottoms-up SaaS companies, Oliver understands the product-led growth motion better than most. Recently, he’s written about the PLG trap. “Although the PLG approach yields rapid initial adoption and growth, scaling a PLG company is a different story.

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Dear SaaStr: What is The Biggest Difference Between Running a 10 Person Startup and a 100 Person Startup?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What is The Biggest Difference Between Running a 10 Person Startup and a 100 Person Startup? The biggest structural difference is you have to hire all the VPs by employee 50–100. You won’t be able to scale this far without a full management team — VPs of Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Customer Success at least. But the toughest personal challenge for many CEOs is letting go.

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Clouded Judgement 9.22.23 - What's Going On With Interest Rates?

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Rates! Rates! Rates! This week was quite interesting. We had the FOMC meeting on Wednesday, and it wasn’t a surprise that the Fed did not hike rates any further. However, we saw the 10Y spike to 4.5%. This continues a trend from April that has seen the 10Y steadily rise from 3.3% to 4.5%.

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Internxt Review

The Daily Egg

If you’re worried that massive tech conglomerates are spying on your data and using your information for world domination, then this software. The post Internxt Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Artisanal Emails

Tom Tunguz

Artisanal chocolate, artisanal candles, artisanal silk scarves. What about an artisanal email? LLM’s powerful content generation abilities will soon automate many emails we send. Sales teams have started using software that identifies leads, researches them, identifies commonalities (a shared university affiliation or a passion for a sports team), drafts the email, & sends it.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder? The list of problems is endless (this is one of the hardest parts of the job), but let me try to order a few of the biggest challenges roughly based on stage: Pre-Revenue: Finding a Truly Great Co-Founder That is Just as Committed as You. Some of us can go the distance as solo founders, and others of us can find a great co-founder, or perhaps a COO … later.

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5 Types of Tools That Can Help Improve Your Customer onboarding process

Inturact

Acquiring new customers can sometimes be a real nightmare, so it’s no surprise that the sales team has a huge sigh of relief once a client has registered. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that the job is done. After registration, you want to ensure that the client will stay and to do so you need to pay attention to the customer onboarding process.

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SEOmator Review

The Daily Egg

If the sheer idea of an audit makes you tense up, you’re not the only one. But believe it or not, sometimes. The post SEOmator Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Why Software Companies Should Adopt the Mindset of a Payments Company

In today's tech-driven world, software companies are poised at a pivotal crossroads. This article delves into the transformative power of adopting a payments-centric mindset. Beyond mere transactional mechanisms, integrated payments offer a plethora of strategic benefits and user experience enhancements. Dive into the dynamics of how this integration can amplify a software company's value proposition, making them not just observers but active propellers of digital commerce.

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Product-Led Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Software Companies

User Pilot

Product-led growth is one of the big SaaS buzzwords. Our ultimate guide explores what PLG is, how it differs from different growth strategies, and why product-led growth matters for SaaS businesses. It also looks at different PLG models, how to implement them, and important metrics to track. Finally, we look at a few examples of successful product-led businesses.

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The Economic Case for Generative AI (presentation)

Andreessen Horowitz

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. To date, a handful of large companies have captured the value created by advances in AI.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. A problem many founders are trying to solve right now is going upmarket to Enterprise, and Lemkin and Grinich have a passionate perspective that every startup should take steps to check those Enterprise boxes in their first year.

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Infinicept and Datacap Join Forces to Provide Software Companies with a Complete Embedded Payments Solution

Infinicept

DENVER, September 26, 2023 — Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, and Datacap Systems, Inc., leading hardware and processor-agnostic omnichannel payments provider, today announced a partnership to provide coordinated support for vertical software companies on their embedded payments journeys. Infinicept’s embedded payments platform, PayOps, and Payfac as a Service, Launchpay.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core. No matter where you are in your analytics journey, you will learn about emerging trends and gather best practices from product experts.

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GTM 61: Two M&A Exits in One Calendar Year by Harnessing the Power of Deep Relationships with Dan Reich

Sales Hacker

Dan Reich is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and writer and has been building companies since he was a teenager. Some of the companies that he founded include: TULA Skincare which was acquired by Proctor & Gamble – Troops.ai which was acquired by Salesforce – Spinback which was acquired by Buddy Media and then acquired by Salesforce.

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How to Use Marketing Experimentation to Boost Your Marketing ROI

User Pilot

Product marketing is a nuanced, fast-paced, and multi-faceted endeavor. In a competitive environment with no guarantees, marketing experimentation serves as a surefire way to maximize reach, optimize conversions, and improve the user experience. In this guide, we’ll walk you through what marketing experiments are, why you should run them, how to conduct experiments successfully, and seven experiments to try for yourself!

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Leaning into integration: The key to unlocking enterprise revenue growth

Totango

Announced during our flagship event, Totango Live! , we’re accelerating the motion to customer success-led growth by introducing two new partnerships and nine technology integrations into the Totango software and ecosystem. We believe these collaborations are cornerstones for enterprises to deliver seamless experiences for their customers and to create the interconnectedness with cross-functional partners and systems needed to drive long-term revenue growth. “Totango believes being an open

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My App Stack: Jessica Gilmartin, Chief Marketing Officer of Calendly

SaaStr

“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. Last week we had a great one with Sarah Scharf, VP of Marketing of Vanta, check it out here. This week we have Jessica Gilmartin, Chief Marketing Officer of Calendly!

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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Improving AI

Andreessen Horowitz

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how AI can be used to improve AI. [0:32] Dario’s background [2:26] GPT-2’s emergent capabilities [5:56]

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Personal Branding for Introverts: How I’m Managing my Anxiety While Growing on Social Media

Buffer Resources

Some things you need to know about me: I’m an introvert and I’m shy. And, to build up my business, I’ve been actively building my personal brand on social media for three years. These things seem rather at odds with each other, don’t they? Before you ask, introversion and shyness are not one and the same. For example, I prefer my own company — preferably curled up with a novel — to socializing because of my low social battery (introvert).

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SaaS Reporting Guide: Tools & Metrics

User Pilot

With companies relying entirely on data, it’s common sense to carry out SaaS reporting. The different reports can offer a variety of insights that help manage your product in the right direction. You just need to ensure you can get started correctly and the metrics you should report on to get the critical metrics. TL;DR SaaS reporting helps to track key metrics and inform the right decisions backed up with data.

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PLG: How to Turn A Free Sign-Up Into An Enterprise Logo

Sales Hacker

Another busy week in ‘the city that never sleeps’. Beyond meeting founders and LPs all day, I’m slowly eating my way through New York City. I’ll take all the Big Apple food recommendations that you have! Anyway, let’s get into it. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Turning a free sign-up into an enterprise logo involves a multi-step process that requires careful planning, design, and execution.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge. These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to product management. This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products.

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SaaS Couples Counseling for Sales & Marketing with Greenhouse’s CMO and VP Enterprise

SaaStr

Theoretically, the relationship between sales and marketing should be easy –– after all, these teams are responsible for pulling in more business and increasing revenue. However, it is often the case that relationships are complicated between these teams, and sometimes they can even butt heads. Unfortunately, this type of tension is all too common and plagues many companies.

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AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work

Andreessen Horowitz

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an indus

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She’s Grown An Audience of 20k+ Subscribers in Less Than A Year – Here’s How

Buffer Resources

Meet Chenell Basilio , a savvy creator who stumbled upon the power of newsletters almost by accident. Starting with a simple curiosity about how others were successfully growing their email lists, Chenell embarked on a journey of research and discovery with Growth in Reverse. Eight months later, she boasts an impressive following of over 20,000 subscribers who eagerly await her weekly deep-dive newsletters.

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