SaaStr
MAY 25, 2023
Have a strong M&A offer? Not sure what to do? Look at this pic or a similar one Do you want it? If so, say No If not? Probably just say Yes pic.twitter.com/K483lKnyzd — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 21, 2021 So I wrote a version of this post years ago, about when to think about selling your startup, if you do get an attractive offer.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 28, 2023
Nifty is a project management software company that focuses on providing an all-in-one solution. Get collaboration features, discussions, document sharing, and reporting. The post Nifty Project Management Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 11, 2023
For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 25, 2023
Source: Midjourney Research in artificial intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate. It’s difficult for AI experts to keep up with everything new being published, and even harder for beginners to know where to start. So, in this post, we’re … The post AI Canon appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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IT World
MAY 9, 2023
Goldman Sachs predicts generative A.I. will replace 300 million full-time jobs because it can "generate content that is indistinguishable from human-created output." Meanwhile, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has paused hiring because A.I. chatbots could replace 7,800 workers.
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Kellblog
APRIL 23, 2023
As long as the country’s in a censorship mood , I figured that I could jump on the bandwagon and propose that we ban discussion of one of my pet-peeve SaaS metrics: ending ARR. Wait, but aren’t you the guy who said that if you only knew two things about a SaaS company and needed to value it, one would be ending ARR and the other would be its growth rate?
Nimble - Sales
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Last month, our Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara, hosted a webinar with DLA Ignite founder Tim Hughes. Tim is recognized as a leading pioneer and innovator of Social Selling, and Jon is a SaaS entrepreneur and a CRM pioneer. When two recognized industry leaders and experts come together to share their knowledge and information, it’s something […] The post Nimble Webinar: 3 Things You Need For Digital Sales Success in 2023 appeared first on Nimble Blog.
Sparktoro
APRIL 2, 2023
Anyone can make it. Most of it is at least OK. Some of it’s pretty good. A few folks are already sharpening their skills at prompting AIs to generate increasingly high-quality material.
Point Nine Land
MAY 11, 2023
Speed and Adaptability Will Define the B2B SaaS Winners in the Generative AI (R)evolution Smaller species tend to have shorter lifespans and faster reproductive cycles and can therefore adapt much faster to changes in the environment. Humans are a bit of an outlier because of their ability for cultural adaptation. To say there’s no shortage of opinions on ChatGPT and the future of AI would be an understatement.
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Buffer Resources
JANUARY 12, 2023
If there’s one thing we love to check on at the end and beginning of any year, it’s the trends. Who got what right — or wrong? What did no one see coming? It’s all fascinating to witness. Perhaps antithetical to my love for trend-watching, the biggest lesson I’ve learned from predictions is that no one can tell the future.
SaaStr
MAY 9, 2023
So when I was a founder, I didn’t pay much attention to how VC funds themselves worked. I just pitched them. But fast forward to today, and there is an incredible amount of information about how the industry actually works, and we put a bunch of the best stuff on SaaStr itself. Most important today is for founders to know (1) how active the venture markets are, at each stage and (2) how healthy venture is overall.
The Daily Egg
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
ClickUp and Airtable are two effective tools designed to help project managers streamline their processes and ensure the successful completion of project. The post ClickUp vs. Airtable appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 27, 2023
Sales cycles shifted dramatically in 2023. Slower sales cycles create pipeline shocks & startups are feeling the impacts. The average startup saw a 24% increase in sales cycle from early 2022 to 2023. 60 day sales cycles are now 75 days. But the latency isn’t evenly distributed. Startups selling to enterprises have increased 36%, twice those of Mid-Market & SMB focused companies.
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Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 20, 2023
In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? In 2013, Marc Andreessen observed that the … The post Hey Tech, It’s Time To Build. In Healthcare. appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
IT World
APRIL 4, 2023
Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, part of Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity tools. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the software license up front and own it forever (what the company calls the “perpetual” version of the suite), or they can purchase a Microsoft
Neil Patel
MARCH 13, 2023
Have you noticed that no matter how well-written your content is, it’s hard to get views? Or even if you create video, audio, or image-based content it’s tough to get likes, shares, and engagement. Most marketers believe it is because there is so much content for people to choose from. In other words, why should someone read yours? And the stats do tell that story ( 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day ), but it’s simpler than that.
Kellblog
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
I recently did a consulting project where I worked with an experienced executive to provide a crash course in SaaS metrics. In order to perform that assignment, I decided not to make an entire course, but simply the syllabus for one, as a way to guide our conversations. While I have no intention of attempting the Herculean task of turning this ten-page outline into a course, I do think sharing the outline itself is potentially useful for two reasons: It took a large amount of effort to map thin
When I saw chatgpt is extremely powerful, I decided to make a comprehensive guide covering start to end. this means keyword research to link building.
Casey Accidental
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
When founders of startups start to hire employees to work on various parts of the business, it tends to be uneasy for both the founder and the employee early on. The founder may have done that job in some capacity before they hired for it, but they are not an expert. The incoming employee may bring more expertise, but they don’t know the business yet.
Sparktoro
APRIL 27, 2023
When site owners and marketers log into their analytics tools to determine how visitors discover and reach their properties, they expect accurate information. Unfortunately, that data is often massively flawed. SparkToro partnered with Really Good Data in a recent experiment to drive 1000+ visits across 11 major social networks and observe how Google Analytics categorized these referrals.
Sales Hacker
MAY 1, 2023
Providing feedback has been a challenge for busy sales managers for decades. In today’s world of virtual communication , providing personalized feedback consistently across teams is even harder. It helps that a majority of sales meetings are happening over video and being recorded. But sales managers simply don’t have time to sift through thousands of hours of calls to find the nuggets of feedback that will unlock greater potential in their salespeople.
Buffer Resources
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
For the last six years, we’ve published the State of Remote Work report. We use this report to do a deep dive into the experience of remote workers around the world, their work structure, their struggles, and their career growth and pay. This year, we had 3,000 remote workers respond to the State of Remote Work to help provide insights. In this post, we’ll cover the top seven insights from the 2023 State of Remote Work.
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SaaStr
MAY 17, 2023
Dear SaaStr: When Searching for a Co-founder, How Do You Know You Found The Right One? I think it boils down to 2 key factors: Someone that is both very good at, and better than you, in several key functional areas. If you are good at coding, she is good at sales and customers. Or whatever. That together, the two of you have all the key functional areas covered decently, at least initially (Engineering, Product, Sales & Customers, Marketing).
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 20, 2023
Webnode is a website builder utilized by more than 40 million users. With Webnode, you can build a simple website or blog. The post Webnode Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 1, 2023
If we assume some basic productivity gains in a typical SaaS company from AI in the next 12-24 months, how much more profitable will the business be? Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Team Team Productivity Gain % of Company Overall Gain SDR/BDR 15% 10% 1.5% Content marketing 30% 5% 1.5% Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validat
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 14, 2023
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying … The post The Modern Transactional Stack appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Speaker: Simon Torrance, Embedded Finance Expert & Advisor
Our guest on this podcast is Simon Torrance. Simon is a globally recognized expert in the field of embedded finance, and he currently serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Platforms & Ecosystems working group. Simon and Todd Ablowitz (Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Infinicept) talk about the basic principles of embedded finance, why this market is a trillion-dollar opportunity and the key challenges that companies face in capturing that opportunity.
IT World
MAY 2, 2023
IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries. “Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validate the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company. It will set the direction for other enterprises to look for similar opportunities in their support functions,” said Pareekh Jain, lead analyst at Pareekh Consulting.
Neil Patel
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
It’s so funny how many people are concerned about ChatGPT and Bard. Not necessarily from a content creation standpoint but more so how it is going to kill search. When Google announced Bard, their stock fell 7%. It cost them more than 100 billion dollars… that’s a lot of money. Why such a big drop in their stock price ? Google’s ad showed an incorrect description of the telescope used to take the first pictures of a planet outside our solar system, for example.
Kellblog
MAY 1, 2023
Let’s say you’re a CEO. You don’t come from a marketing background. At every quarterly business review (QBR) and board meeting, your marketing head presents a chart like this: What happens next? More than likely, after 10 or 15 minutes of effectively random probes into this minefield of numbers, you do what any good CEO would under the circumstances.
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