SaaStr
MAY 23, 2024
So Emergence Capital put together a great report here on B2B startups, “Beyond Benchmarks 2024” , with a ton of great data across 664 software startups. One piece I loved is how 2023 growth rates compared to 2022 for Top Quartile Software Startups. Now to be clear, and I know this is a bit brutal — “Top Quartile” isn’t in general enough to get funded by VCs.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 22, 2024
NVIDIA’s growth is an index on the growth of AI. “Compute revenue grew more than 5x and networking revenue more than 3x from last year.” Data center revenue totaled $26b, with about 45% from the major clouds ($13b). These clouds announced they were spending $40b in capex to build out data centers , implying NVIDIA is capturing very roughly 33% of the total capex budgets for their cloud customers.
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Clouded Judgement
MAY 24, 2024
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now First Look at April Quarters Heading in to this week, software earnings have not been good. This week, we got a first look at companies reporting with April quarter ends (so we got the benefit of one incremental month of data).
Stax
MAY 20, 2024
When can revenue NOT be counted as revenue? If this question is confusing, you’re not alone. The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. Although your business has received payment, this cannot be credited to your bottom line until delivery of the product is completed.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
USIO
MAY 24, 2024
Choosing the right payment gateway is a crucial decision for any SaaS (Software as a Service) business or ISV. This decision impacts your cash flow, user experience, and even your company’s reputation. With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to decide which payment gateway best suits your needs. Today, we’ll dive into why Usio is a top contender and why it might be the best payment gateway for your SaaS or ISV.
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Predictable Revenue
MAY 21, 2024
Collin and Fred shared how an unusual path involving his battle with Lyme disease made him a better sales leader. The post The Power of Authenticity in Sales with Fred Diamond appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
User Pilot
MAY 26, 2024
A Customer Effort Score (CES) survey is a powerful tool for assessing how easy it is for customers to interact with your product. It helps you identify areas for improvement and enhance the user experience. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through: How to implement a CES survey and collect valuable feedback. The best times to launch your CES surveys.
Buffer Resources
MAY 23, 2024
There’s a lot of talk about “excellent copywriting” on the internet. And it’s versatile, too: Copywriting techniques can be used for multiple formats — from e-commerce websites, landing pages, sales, pages to product descriptions and content marketing. But what about social media — where holding attention is harder than ever before?
USIO
MAY 23, 2024
Prepaid cards offer several advantages for unbanked communities, providing a bridge to financial services and offering a range of benefits that address specific needs. Here are some key advantages: Accessibility : No Credit Check : Prepaid cards are typically available without a credit check, making them accessible to those who might not qualify for traditional bank accounts due to poor or no credit history.
Speaker: John Mansour
If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.
SaaStr
MAY 23, 2024
“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Andrew Steele, Partner at Activant Capital. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13! #1. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?
Subscription Flow
MAY 22, 2024
First impressions are rarely the last impressions, but they can prove to be just that for your company if you do not strategize a high customer lifetime value (LTV) for SaaS businesses. This can be a costly first impression since statistics show that acquiring a new customer is 5 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. ( Churn is expensive!
User Pilot
MAY 26, 2024
Are you unsure what the difference between a user journey and a user story is? Both are helpful for your product but have slightly different outcomes. This article will dive deep into user journey vs. user story and share how they differ. TL;DR Customer journey maps visualize user experiences, highlighting steps, touchpoints, emotions, pain points , and opportunities for improvement.
The Moz Blog
MAY 21, 2024
What good is winning the algorithm if you’ve lost the human? What would happen if you were OK with sacrificing a high ranking to get more people to thank you for how much you educated them? In this article, discover Wil’s two new approaches to SEO and content using social media.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Sales Hacker
MAY 21, 2024
Daniel Zarick is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arrows, a collaborative customer onboarding tool built specifically for teams using HubSpot. With funding from Gradient Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and GTMfund, Arrows. is well-positioned to become a major player in the HubSpot ecosystem. Discussed in this Episode: The benefits and challenges of going to market in a single platform ecosystem like HubSpot How to gain traction and build relationships with key stakeholders in a crowded partner ecosystem St
SaaStr
MAY 21, 2024
So G2 put out a survey and report on customer success recently that was an eye-opener: 67% of CS execs report having a sales quota 53% of CS execs now view their job as primarily a sales role Now some of this may be semantics. Business software companies have had “account managers” responsible for upsell since the earliest days. As customer success came into its own, it was often seen as distinct from account management, focused on customer retention and happiness and NPS and CSAT.
Buffer Resources
MAY 23, 2024
Meta offers several tools to help implement marketing strategies and manage your online presence effectively. But if you’ve never interacted with them before, it can be an overwhelming experience. So whether you’re a beginner creator or small business owner, this guide will walk you through the key setup tasks and common activities for Meta Business Suite.
User Pilot
MAY 23, 2024
Customers aren't all the same, so you need different types of customer support to address the needs of different kinds of customers. Some may call you when in trouble, while others want to fix it without interacting with you. As a result, you need variety in your customer service solutions to properly assist each customer. This article explores 12 of the most important customer support types and how to approach them to consistently deliver outstanding customer experiences.
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The Moz Blog
MAY 20, 2024
Explore the aftermath of Google's March Core Update and Spam Updates and uncover four major trends shaping the search landscape.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 21, 2024
We believe the most successful American Dynamism companies share a few common characteristics: They’re able to anticipate technological turning points and breakthroughs. They identify, recruit, and empower the world’s best engineers by giving them insanely hard, cross-disciplinary problems to own. They continuously push the limits of what’s possible with technology, and innovate quickly through both success and failure.
SaaStr
MAY 24, 2024
So the #2 topic in SaaS today is probably profitability and efficiency. #1 is AI. But profitability is a close second. And the message to founders is confusing. Yes, everyone has to be at least 2x as efficient as 2021, maybe more so. But … that’s not enough. You still have to grow. So what’s the trade-off? I pulled up 3 recent examples from the SaaStr 5 Interesting Learning series, and interestingly, all 3 are at ~$2.5B ARR: SMB leader HubSpot Enterprise vertical SaaS lea
FastSpring
MAY 20, 2024
Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. If your company is considering making a SaaS transition, Brad Sams of Stardock knows what you’re going through. As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doin
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
User Pilot
MAY 22, 2024
What if you could get into your user’s brain? Would you have a better understanding of how they interact with your product? You bet! Unfortunately, that technology isn’t here yet, so UX research tools are the next best thing. These tools can provide you with the qualitative and quantitative data you need to understand how your customer behaves in your product, so you can make the necessary changes to improve their experience.
Buffer Resources
MAY 20, 2024
A few years ago, LinkedIn was my strongest marketing channel for my job search coaching business, Recruit the Employer , and I had amassed over 40,000 followers. But then I got a full-time job and put my business — and my social media presence — on pause. When I decided to relaunch my company this year, I knew returning to LinkedIn would be part of my social media marketing strategy.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 24, 2024
For this episode, we’ve stitched together two archived episodes from the a16z Podcast , both featuring General Partner Anjney Midha. In the first half, from December, he speaks with Mistral cofounder and CEO Arthur Mensch about the importance of open foundation models, as well as Mistral’s approach to building them. In the second half (at 34:40), from February, he speaks with Stanford’s Stefano Ermon about the state of the art in video models, including how OpenAI’s Sora
SaaStr
MAY 21, 2024
Dear SaaStr: What Were the Biggest Mistakes You Made Getting Your Startups Going? The biggest two mistakes I made, I made twice, maybe thrice. They were: One, starting with too incomplete a management team. In my first start-up, while the core 3 co-founders were great, we needed an operational COO to really get to market with our customers. I closed arguably the best COO in the U.S. for the job — or so I thought.
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The Moz Blog
MAY 24, 2024
In this Whiteboard Friday, Tom takes us through the top SERP features of 2024 by both presence and Share of Voice.
User Pilot
MAY 23, 2024
Wondering how to measure product adoption and retention rates? If yes, this article is exactly what you need! Read to find out what product adoption and retention metrics to track, how to analyze the data for actionable insights, and how Userpilot can help you. TL;DR Tracking product adoption and retention rates helps you understand how users engage with the product and identify potential roadblocks in the customer journey.
Chargebee
MAY 23, 2024
Selecting a new billing system can feel like running ten miles in a marathon only to find 32 more miles to go. You’ll reach the finish line only when you nail the implementation, migration, and onboarding. An unplanned migration process can lead to data duplication, inaccurate revenue reporting, and business downtime – all affecting the incredible subscriber experience you want to deliver to your customers.
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