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5 Interesting Learnings From Squarespace at $1.1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So with public SaaS companies continuing to grow, but revenue multiples often at relative lows, it can make sense in some cases to “go private”, invest in more growth for a few years, and try to IPO again down the road. Qualtrics did it, nCino just did it, and the latest is Squarespace. They are going private at an almost $7 Billion valuation.

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The Benefits of Digital Disbursements

USIO

As time presses on, a world of paperless transactions catches up with the world everyday. Over time the world has seen a speedy decline with paper checks. Paper checks usually cost around $4 to $20 and fluctuates due to certain companies and how they function. The reason why they can be so expensive is that overtime additional expenses go into paper checks like the costs of labor charges, working hours dedicated to making the check, material costs, and other charges levied by banks.

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Dear SaaStr: Is It Common To Have a VC Fund a Seed Round in Milestones?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is It Common To Have a VC Fund a Seed Round in Milestones? It’s not common with typical Silicon Valley investors. But outside of that? It’s a little old school, but it’s not that uncommon. And run from a milestone-based “second check” Because really, it’s just a one-way option for the investor. If you had just one investor, then in a perfect world, this investor would get to dole out chunks of the initial investment and see how it goes.

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Are AI Companies Valued Differently Than Non-AI Companies?

Tom Tunguz

The Theory AI Index of publicly traded companies continue to outperform more classical software companies since we published the index earlier this year. In addition to the delta in absolute multiple, is there a difference in the factors that drive valuation? Across the five most important metrics, AI companies’ valuation correlates isn’t that much different than non-AI companies.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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What Founders Get Wrong About GTM Efforts

Predictable Revenue

Kellen Casebeer and Collin highlight the strategic matrix approach. This approach aligns marketing efforts with current market realities. The post What Founders Get Wrong About GTM Efforts appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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What would be considered a good revenue share agreement from a payments service provider for processing payments through my software platform?

USIO

A good revenue share agreement with a payments service provider depends on various factors including your software platform’s volume of transactions, the average transaction size, industry standards, and the services provided by the payment provider. Typically, revenue share agreements with payment service providers range from 1% to 5% of the transaction value.

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BI's Third Form : Office Hours with Benn Stancil

Tom Tunguz

On Thursday May 30th at 9:30 Pacific time, Office Hours will host Benn Stancil. Benn co-founded Mode, a analytics platform acquired by ThoughtSpot. He writes about the future of data & analytics on his blog & asks deep questions about core tenets of software including Do software companies actually have good margins? & Disband the analytics team.

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Generating growth: Insights from a former software company CRO | Episode 37

Payrix

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. Instead, it’s about understanding how to harness efficient growth. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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The Role of Founders in Sales with Andrew Sykes

Predictable Revenue

In this episode, Andrew Sykes, founder of Habits at Work, re-joined us, this time exploring the pivotal role of founder-led selling. The post The Role of Founders in Sales with Andrew Sykes appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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Dear SaaStr: As a SaaS Founder, Can You Tell Us The Story of How You Found Product-Market Fit?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: As a SaaS Founder, Can You Tell Us The Story of How You Found Product-Market Fit? I had to brute force it, at least the second time at EchoSign / Adobe Sign. When we launched we had a small but decent number of sign-ups, and once we had a paid product in a few months, a small number of reasonably happy paying customers. Not many. But at least a few that were happy.

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How to Prepare for an SEO Conference, Including MozCon

The Moz Blog

Looking to make the most out of your SEO conference experience? Discover how the right preparation can boost your team's strength, energy, and enthusiasm during and after events like MozCon. Whether you're a seasoned attendee or a first-timer, our guide will ensure you maximize the rewards and make the most of this fast-paced environment. Let's dive in and make your conference experience truly unforgettable.

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AI’s Second Order Effects

Andreessen Horowitz

Here’s a math puzzle: A good salesperson can sell 50 widgets a year, earns $100,000 a year, and will not take a pay cut. A company has an amazing new widget that needs to be sold (people will not find it on their own/aren’t looking for it). Prospective customers of this company’s new widget will happily pay $500/year, but not a dollar more. How will this company do?

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15 Amplitude Integrations SaaS Businesses Need in 2024

User Pilot

What are Amplitude integrations? How do they work? These are 2 of the questions we answer in this article. The main reason you should read it? To learn about the 15 best integrations that the Amplitude product analytics platform offers its customers! Let’s dive right in! TL;DR Amplitude integrations are connections that allow businesses to sync data between Amplitude and other tools or data sources for cross-platform data collection, management, and analysis.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

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.

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FastSpring at WordCamp EU 2024!

FastSpring

Ready to join the ultimate gathering in Europe for around 3,000 WordPress enthusiasts? If so, join FastSpring at WordCamp EU 2024 at Booth 13! We’d love to talk with you in person! Join us at the Lingotto Conference and Exhibition Centre in Torino, Italy from June 13 to 15 for an extraordinary event dedicated to all things WordPress. Immerse yourself in a diverse array of programs, workshops, and presentations, where industry experts will share their wisdom and cutting-edge trends will be unveil

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How GenAI is Powering App Security with Cisco’s CPO of Panoptica Alex Jauch

SaaStr

At SaaStr’s inaugural AI Day, the Senior Director of Product Management at Panoptica by Cisco, its incubation team, Alex Jauch, talks about how GenAI is powering app security, how Cisco is using it, and how you can use GenAI to protect other businesses. Did You Say Hype Cycle? A lot of hype cycles have come along where people say, “This is going to change the world, and everything will be different.

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MozCon Field Guide: Exploring Summertime Seattle

The Moz Blog

MozCon is fast approaching, and Meghan is here to save the day with her MozCon Field Guide. Explore summertime in Seattle this June with us and discover everything this city has to offer. Grab your MozCon tickets now, and don’t miss out!

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Security Founders Talk Shop About Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, recorded live at our San Francisco office, security-startup founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on generative AI, as well as their experiences building with LLMs and dealing with LLM-based threats. Here’s a sample, from Dean, discussing the myriad considerations when choosing and operating a large language model: “The more advanced your use case is, the more requiremen

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

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.

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10 Best Mixpanel Integrations for 2024

User Pilot

What are the best Mixpanel integrations in 2024? Hard to tell, as this depends on your needs and what you already have in your tech stack. Here are 10 possible contenders for the title, covering multiple use cases, from customer engagement through analytics , customer relationship management, experimentation, and digital experience optimization. TL;DR Mixpanel integrations enable you to connect it to other tools for seamless data sync.

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FastSpring Opens Austin Office, Strengthening Global Footprint

FastSpring

We’re excited to announce that FastSpring is set to broaden our global presence with a new office located in Austin, Texas. This strategic move is part of our ongoing effort to enhance our global footprint, which includes offices located in California, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and most recently, Singapore. Austin is already home to some of FastSpring’s key team members, including our Chief Revenue Officer Mark Kole and Chief Marketing Officer David Vogelpohl.

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Focus Your Marketing Efforts on What Your VPM is Good At

SaaStr

I’ve re-learned something about marketing every year working on the SaaStr Annual for 10+ years. And that thing I’ve learned is that you can take two brutally competitive products, that are very similar, give each a booth at SaaStr Annual, Europa or at one of our digital events… or each can try a podcast ad or do a newsletter ad … and one can walk away with more leads than you can follow up on.

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LinkedIn SEO: How to Optimize Your Account in 2024

Buffer Resources

Social media search is growing. Google search results are increasingly filled with results from social platforms. According to this study , 87 percent of social media marketers say social search is vital to their strategy. There’s even an industry inside joke that adding “reddit” or “pinterest” or, of course, "linkedin" at the end of your search terms will more likely deliver exactly what you need.

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Driving Growth, Customer Satisfaction, and Retention through Usage-Based Pricing

As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.

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Layer 2, Rollups, and Building Onchain (with Base)

Andreessen Horowitz

Coinbase's Jesse Pollak, founder of Base, discusses "layer 2” rollups, Ethereum scaling, EIP-4844, and more on web3 with a16z podcast.

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8 SaaS Dashboard Examples to Track Key Metrics

User Pilot

When it comes to product management, you need to look at different SaaS dashboard examples to see what kind of product analytics you can measure, and how. So what are the most important types of dashboards and which ones are the best for you? Let’s go over 8 examples of SaaS dashboards and see how they can fit your business objectives: TL;DR A SaaS dashboard centralizes KPIs, metrics, and analytics to improve user experience and drive product growth.

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FastSpring Support: 2024 Q2 Updates From Customer Support

FastSpring

Get the latest from FastSpring’s Support leaders about: FastSpring’s new Payout Statements. Nine key pieces of info to include in support cases for faster help. FastSpring’s self-serve B2B document library. How Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager can help your business, plus FastSpring integration. Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page.

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HubSpot: “Yes, We Had a Great Quarter. But … To Be Clear … Things Aren’t Bouncing Back Yet”

SaaStr

So HubSpot had a great quarter, despite there being many challenges in the sales and marketing segments overall in the past 18 months: $2.5B ARR 23% Growth 22% Customer Growth 15% Operating Margins (non-GAAP) That’s about as good as it gets. Even as many selling software to tech have struggled, HubSpot has maintained top-tier growth. But … that doesn’t mean it got easier.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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The Psychology Behind Search: Cognitive Biases in SEO

The Moz Blog

Discover the impact of cognitive bias on SEO and how to leverage the psychology of your audience to improve rankings, click-through rates, and brand reputation.

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How to Think About Foundation Models for Cybersecurity

Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast , a16z General Partner Zane Lackey and a16z Partner Joel de la Garza sit down with Derrick Harris to discuss how generative AI — LLMs, in particular — and foundation models could effect profound change in cybersecurity. After years of AI-washing by security vendors, they explain why the hype is legitimate this time as AI provides a real opportunity to help security teams cut through the noise and automate away the types of drudgery that lead to mistakes.

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Customer Feedback Surveys: Types, Questions, and Templates

User Pilot

Customer feedback surveys serve as invaluable tools for gathering actionable insights directly from your audience. However, it’s important to know when and how to trigger the forms to gather user feedback , for increased response rate and data credibility. In this article, we explain the definitions, types, examples, and best practices of customer feedback questionnaires to help you increase your response rate.

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