SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Stage 2 Capital invests $4M to $6M in first checks into B2B software companies that are around $1M ARR. These investments typically occur between the seed and the A round. Check that out here.

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Mucker Capital

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. Today, Emotive announces their $50M Series B closed just 7 months after to accelerate growth after a transformative year for eCommerce brands.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. Businesses must take a step back, evaluate their software investments, and rework their implementations. How to maximize customer training investment.

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TrackStreet

JULY 20, 2023

There are many reasons we at TrackStreet believe manufacturers and brands should have a MAP pricing policy. We also mention that establishing and rigorously enforcing a MAP pricing policy is important for preventing online price erosion, which can undermine your brand value over time. This can present a long-term threat to your brand.

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Branding Pricing Advertising Technology 52

Neil Patel

MARCH 22, 2021

Huge volumes of traffic can make it harder for brands to stand out and reach consumers in the most effective way possible. What’s more, it’s challenging to generate income from a platform with over 25 million brand accounts to compete with. There’s no need to buy fancy cameras or invest in new technology. The problem?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. It just does not make sense.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What sales investments should you focus on in 2022? Companies that want to succeed in the new sales world need to embrace new technologies, especially ones that harness the power of data and analytics. Tools like speech and text analytics and other voice-of-customer technology can produce meaningful insights. Where to ramp up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lightspeed has invested in companies for about 20 years, with roots in early-stage Enterprise investing. Enterprise technology spend has remained resilient , with Cloud spend tripling over the last year. In November of 2021, Abhay was the CTO at Adobe, and they were investing a lot in AI, but not GenAI.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Healthcare New CTO 216

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2024

As a SaaS veteran who built and sold a software company for nine figures, invested in startups since 2013, 10x-ing his fund, and continues to build a powerhouse community of SaaStr fans, he offers some hot takes on the communities’ burning questions. These payback metrics are important for investing. Do zero-cost budgeting.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. You have two partners and one or two other investing?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Join us for a candid conversation about leveraging feedback to understand your internal brand. What your internal brand is. Building your internal brand [20:19]. Look at your brand. And that’s based on the brand that they built working with me in the past. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

Branding 81

Branding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 81

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

How Can BOPUS Benefit Your Brand? Investment on Staff to Manage BOPUS. The buy online, pick up in–store model requires initial investment to hire dedicated staff. Investing on BOPUS won’t be worth it if customers don’t even know it exists. BOPUS Brand Examples. BOPUS Brand Examples. TC Running.

Branding 132

Branding Mobile Sales Hiring Business Model 132

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Neon One is on a mission to change that: building an ecosystem of technology and services that enable those who want to change the world and make it a better place. The entire Payrix team is invested in our success and has been incredibly attentive and diligent in ensuring all of our needs are met.” GET A DEMO

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There is an “AI Innovation Pause” in B2B SaaS AI overall is one of the greatest forces of nature we’ve seen in technology and software. Marketing remains forced to be myopic and short-term focused, but the market leaders lean in deep on brand, and pull ahead. Seat contractions and app layoffs are behind us.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The SaaS revenue tech stack can help you grow your business, but if you don’t plan carefully, you might invest in tools that aren’t helpful and don’t yield ROI. This idea of connection and problem-solving should inform your planning to build a technology stack. Process before technology. Invest according to revenue.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how. Continue reading to learn what the top three SaaS technologies are that have reshaped ecommerce. Any claim off the “best technologies to happen to ecommerce” has to look farther back than you might think.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Technology 59

BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

And in a recent episode with Marques Stewart, vice president of technology at Achievement First, he briefly reflected on how he got promoted. I had just left the Peace Corps the same year the first iPhone came out, and now look where we are in terms of technology. When you deal with technology, it tends to be binary.

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Technology CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Alison brings the perspective of all sides of a startup, from investing to SaaS to Cloud. With the marketing team, there are a lot of the classic functions — brand marketing, product marketing, and partner marketing. For Google Workspace, they invested in expanding and building Google Meet and the rest of the workspace during 2020.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

While this may be a good thing for consumers, it is detrimental to most of the brands involved, especially for those who lack the budget or uncompromising strategies to adapt to these dynamic market changes. Technological advancements can also contribute to pricing erosion by reducing production costs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

As buyers grapple with expanding technology, higher prices, and a need for efficiency, SaaS companies need to deliver what their audience is looking for to win in the market. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. Be sure you are investing in R&D and hiring strong engineering teams.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Essentially, you invest more into acquiring the customer as they become more aware and have higher intent to buy vs top-loading all your spend in your TAM. That’s very important there’s a lot of infrastructure, effort, humans, lots of technology, and lots of data vendors that you’re buying from just to set this all up.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 12, 2013

How much is the most valuable brand in the world, Coca-Cola worth? Often times, winners create advantages in a market through brands. These brands evoke emotions within consumers: feelings of trust (Visa), of aspiration (Nike), of adventure (RedBull). Instead, our exchanges focus more on technology and more recently, design.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. Strategic technology partners . Businesses work with solution partners to help their brands accomplish specific goals. Making a robust ecosystem. Marketplace partners.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s surprising to people who don’t say the way that technology is taking over industry, after industry.”. Instead, he attributes the high valuations to an influx of cash and a finite number of investments. Shishir: “My view is don’t take money from people if you don’t think you can hit your investment goals.

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Cloud Investment Scaling SaaS 255

SaaStr

JULY 7, 2023

I remember I first started to see this with one company I invested in where some folks described it as “Gong for XYZ”. Yes, there was some overlap in technology for a different industry. That sounded great, and was very easy to understand. And it particularly appealed to SaaS execs because everyone knows Gong. The problem?

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Marketing Sales Interviewing Enterprise 224

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Thanks to massive technological advances happening in big data and AI, Justin saw new possibilities for improved user experiences with a brand. What are the values of the brand?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) , 65% of global GDP will be digitalized by 2022, and investment in digital transformation (DX) continues to grow. This trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

It’s more ‘Oh, this technology is great. Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one. ” What are the Most Important Investments that Ensure a Future 50 Company Can Adopt? I want to try it on my chatbot.’

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AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 237

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Here are Nilsson’s insights on the value of investing in an SDR team, a function that has revolutionized the productivity of sales teams. . Early-stage founders should first focus on an SDR that can tell their brand story—someone who can develop and produce content and messaging. . Sales engagement tech is a must-have .

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Sales Hiring Development Technical Review Management 203

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Automattic is a behind-the-scenes brand. It’s not meant to be a consumer brand. They put power back in the hands of the people because technology should enable you. No One Feels Trapped Investing in WordPress How does Matt view the public markets and how things are looking compared to a year ago?

Underperforming Technical Team 274

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 274

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

From the integration of cutting-edge technologies to the evolution of cross-functional roles and partnerships, here are their hot takes on what’s new for CS in this new year. Human expertise, along with AI technology, transforms CS into a significant growth engine for their companies.

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Customer Success Generative AI Scale AI 96

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . Once that technology is better understood, production capital moves in to drive mainstream adoption of the technology. .

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this article, we dive into the intricate systems behind successful content creators as they share how they blend their creativity with strategy and technology. Systems enable creators to produce high-quality content consistently, build a strong brand identity, and grow their operations over time.

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Systems Review Social Media Technical Review Scale 110

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. There are massive risks for those who don’t follow.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2023

TL;DR Customer service trends refer to the ever-changing technologies, tools, and systems used to render support to customers. More than 50% of business leaders are investing more in customer service agility, automation, self-service support , etc. Customer service is an integral part of how customers perceive a brand.

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