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Things May Snap Back Fast. So Take Advantage Of This Crazy World Now.

SaaStr

Instead of a crummy office at 2x the price. Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Just last week, I introduced a $2m ARR CEO to a $2000 ARR CEO. Underperformers found it harder to hide after Covid, and many have already left or moved on. Respectfully move on from any other underperformers by year-end.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Trisha Price. Trisha Price: nCino is a little bit different in its background.

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How to Build a SaaS Customer Acquisition Strategy

Baremetrics

Optimize the pricing page 5. This data can prove to be invaluable in understanding which channels to invest in, as well as analyze your marketing department’s core strengths and weaknesses (by comparing your CAC with the industry benchmarks). Have a well-optimized website 2. Showcase success stories 4. The Bottom Line. later on.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity.

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10 Smart Ways To Build Your Email List 10x Faster

Teamgate

Let’s say you have 2000 Facebook fans, 2000 followers on Twitter, and 2000 email subscribers. But one thing that makes email marketing so sexy is that it’s much easier to build a mailing list of 2000 people than to get 2000 new followers on Twitter or Facebook. Is it the same thing? Absolutely not. Social proof.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. ” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement.