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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

Benn: The modern data stack is the catchall term for the new set of data tools that are being developed on the backs of data products moving to the cloud. Basically, with Redshift, which was one of the first cloud data warehouses, people started moving all that to the cloud. The core of this is the data warehouse.

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Smaller SaaS More Vulnerable than Larger in 2020

OPEXEngine

However, the ripple effects from the rest of the economy have slowed growth for most companies and makes cash flow an even more important metric to stress test whether a company can manage thru the current changing environment. How Did SaaS Companies Look Financially Coming into the Covid Economic Crisis?

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Product pricing: how to price a product | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

Ensure you’re using a value metric (what you’re physically charging for). If you think about airlines, they typically surge prices during popular times of travel and to popular destinations. 5 important metrics that should inform your product pricing. Here are some steps you can follow: Quantify buyer personas.

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2021 Planning and Global Economic Collapse

SaaStr

Cloud is on fire. Every airline without government support will collapse. SaaS and Cloud can’t escape the mass bankruptcies coming. That can be your base plan to start, for both top line (revenue) and burn rate. More on that here : The Power and Honesty in a L4M Model. Build One Now. And that will take another year.

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Making Trade-Offs In Marketing with Meagen Eisenberg (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you have not set your workforce up to deal with this and you are not online and in the cloud and all the things that we need as employees in a business, you’re making that transformation now. Our suppliers came in, our airlines and hotels came in and started contributing content. All the phones were busy.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. They recently made it possible to get insights from places like Reddit and Quora.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We want to pick up the phone and call the airline, call Uber asking for our food. When WebRTC came in, and allowed Talkdesk to really build a product that worked back in the day, and using the technology plus the clouds, plus the simplicity. In 2014, when we met, the cloud was accelerating. Jason Lemkin: Yes. Jason Lemkin: Yeah.