SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It was the new economy, and all the Goldman Sachs and McKinsey people quit their jobs, becoming CEOs of disruptor businesses with iterative ideas like putting the news or company brochures online. The Innovator’s Dilemma is the long-time work of Clayton Christensen, a Professor at Harvard Business School.

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The Daily Egg

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Well, the good news is you don’t have to use your imagination. Portfolio project management (PPM) tools allow businesses to remain in control, allowing you to identify returns on projects and when to invest in new ones. Imagine an easy-to-use tool that allowed you to keep track of your ongoing projects, resources, and timelines.

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Management Investment Business 342

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2022

Today, Microsoft & Google revealed the health of their infrastructure business units. Good news & bad news. Google may have greater sector exposure to clients that are suffering through a recession: retail, ecommerce, & advertising-based businesses. Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud Platform. Amazon Web Services.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2023

Run toward bad news Sometimes you need a moment. Don’t hide bad news. It is natural to want to hide bad news, at least a little bit. What spooks folks is when you don’t share bad news, or share it very late. I know you are busy. That's OK. But after that, hiding makes it worse. Do it for real.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

App developers and game developers may be interested in the latest news about Apple gearing up to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. With the European Union’s Digital Markets Act continuing to ramp up, Apple may be making changes to its App Store policies to comply with the new act.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Software Review 113

Nimble - Sales

APRIL 19, 2024

Exciting news! Nimble has just created Deals APIs, a game-changing update that revolutionizes how you seize new business opportunities. Now available, these APIs empower you to manage deals and opportunities between platforms.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 26, 2024

As you can see, there was a nice rebound in Azure ex AI growth as well as the overall growth: And if I take a similar swag at the run rate of Azure AI Services, those quarterly figures are below: On one hand, seeing this business get to a $4b run rate in a year is incredible! On the other hand, the rate of growth clearly slowed in Q1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’re all so used to communicating all day on Zoom and Slack … that why shouldn’t tough news be delivered that way? You can take back almost anything said in person, at least in a business context. We tell ourselves it’s because we’re too busy. Well, the reason is there is almost 100% chance it will be misinterpreted.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Whether you want a humorous retelling of a 20-something’s first time reading the Harry Potter series or your news fed directly to your ears, you likely have something you return to periodically.  This weekly podcast is designed to assist entrepreneurial influencers in managing their businesses with sustainability and success. 

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Social Media Entertainment Entrepreneurship Interviewing 93

User Pilot

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These podcasts can deliver you the latest developments and news in an audio format you can listen to while driving or walking a dog. The show covers AI’s influence in diverse areas, including art, science, business, and ecology, featuring guests from Google, Oracle, and Deloitte. TL;DR Podcast.ai Podcast.ai With nearly 3.4

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted. From an R&D perspective, they invested in what they called vertical solutions to support those new use cases.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

ARR, Zendesk today gets 14% of new business from startups. The bad news is there are a lot of companies developing VC partnership functions. The good news is that many aren’t doing anything to stand out. At 16 years and $1.6B That’s a pretty significant part of the growth of their company.

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Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 178

FastSpring

JANUARY 22, 2024

With FastSpring, gaming businesses can level up quickly in the global market and do what they do best, build great games. The post News: U.S. Google: Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want? For more information, please visit [link].

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 88

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Talent + Asset — Taking everything t o expand the business or some core piece of the product. Figure out their goals and company goals, and create mockups, prototypes, business plans, and even real code to demonstrate why your company is going to be incredibly valuable. #2 2 Play the Field On the flip side, you should play the field.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

You want people to call you because you have a great business. At places like Google or Meta, they’re organized into business units. The VP or SVP of the business unit will be the relationship you want. If the offer is below your number, it’s bad news for somebody. And if the deal blows up, it could kill your business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2023

And with that, we’re upgrading to the much larger Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre right in the business district in the heart of SaaS of Singapore. . This is huge news for the first-time event and will allow us to host even more of the community at the first SaaStr APAC in Singapore.

Cloud 229

Cloud SaaS Revenue Management 229

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s very hard to find anyone that knows the business as well as the founders. VCs are wired to take bad news, and even lose money from time to time. And sometimes, it’s very dramatic, see e.g., Travis Kalanik at Uber. But most investors absolutely do not want to fire founders. Because: It usually increases risk. More on that here.

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Metrics SaaS Business 196

Neil Patel

JULY 9, 2021

You can get thousands of clicks to your site from Google News. Smart bloggers, news publishers, and digital content marketers are already tapping into this huge resource for targeted traffic and better search engine visibility. Google News is reserved for sites and blogs that publish timely, topical articles. What is News?

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Social Media Engineering Forecasting Branding 145

Predictable Revenue

APRIL 3, 2020

Every day brings news and change around Covid-19 and its impact on the economy, our customers, and the business climate. We’re working to adapt to new circumstances almost daily, and looking to help our customers do the same. As everyone else is going virtual, a new concern arises: virtual onboarding.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2023

Despite the challenges, there is still some good news: founders who launch companies in this market may be rewarded with a specific set of advantages. Founders feel that only 66% of investors understand the business. Key Takeaways Investor relationships are critical to the present and future success of your business.

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Communication Startup Investment Strategy 197

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Are you, as a journalist, tired of writing monotonous news reports or financial notes? Source: blogspot.com) Due to the development of new technologies, business owners, company executives, and others responsible for writing have an opportunity to cope with these problems effectively. corporate earnings.

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Artificial Intelligence Technical Review AI Search AI 96

Sparktoro

JUNE 26, 2023

In 2021 and 2022 I wrote updates about this business’ journey, both because I love to transparently share the adventure, and because we’re passionate about spreading the model SparkToro’s used to fund, grow, and bring value to customers. Let’s continue that tradition today Here’s the good news:…

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a clarification, when I talk about PR in this post, it’s about how to obtain favorable media coverage on company news. And of course, you want to be the first publication to write about the news. But as a startup, no one is looking for news on you, so you can save those expenses. Targeting journalists is no different.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Revenue 216

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 23, 2023

AI Chatbot Moderation Meta is striving to curb inappropriate responses from its new AI chatbots to ensure a safer user experience. Verified for Business Onboarding Meta revealed the onboarding steps for its Verified for Business program, aimed at authenticating business identities.

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Social Media Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 82

Neil Patel

MARCH 22, 2021

What good is launching a new business if nobody knows about it? Millions of new businesses start every month, so distinguishing yourself from the competition can be a hefty endeavor. We’ve hand-selected the best tools and services to generate buzz about your new business. Business Wire.

Startup 139

Startup Social Media AI Search Engineering 139

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2020

They run their business on your platform. In the news. You probably should hide some of the very worst news in some cases, at least. But be direct on what the new goals are, the new plan is, and how you are going to get there. They didn’t just buy your product once. They repurchase it every month, every year.

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Sales Hiring Startup Investment Revenue 311

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meta Business Suite has rolled out an improved version of its Stories uploader tool for desktop users. Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta AI , a new assistant that facilitates interactions across WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram DMs, and soon, Quest 3. For small business owners, this could open new avenues for customer engagement.

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Social Media AI Search AI ChatGPT 92

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Other Software News In other software news, Cisco bought Splunk for $28B, and Klaviyo went public breaking the nearly 2 year drought of software IPOs. FCF calculated as Cash Flow from Operations - Capital Expenditures GM Adjusted Payback is calculated as: (Previous Q S&M) / (Net New ARR in Q x Gross Margin) x 12.

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Cloud Revenue Software Metrics 152

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

If you’d like more commentary and analysis about news and trends from the a16z Fintech team, you can subscribe here. The amount of innovation we’re about to see in tax is unparalleled in recent history,” says Jamil Khan, the Chief Strategy and Small Business Officer for tax giant H&R Block.

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Generative AI AI Leadership Innovation 94

IT World

MARCH 14, 2023

The news comes four months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that it was cutting 11,000 jobs , impacting 13% of its global workforce. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced it will be cutting a further 10,000 jobs and leaving 5,000 vacant roles unfilled. To read this article in full, please click here

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Business 82

Incredo

APRIL 8, 2020

3 Company: WorkPuls , Employee Monitoring Software Workpuls created an employer’s guide to work from home to help out business owners and managers who needed to switch to remote work. The page uses quizzes to make them aware of the myths that are spreading on the internet and helps them fight fake news.

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Sales Recruiting Travel SaaS Sales Hiring 269

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

The weakness they called out was from larger cloud-native businesses. The good news is gross retention (ie churn) stayed constant. Now for the good news - they called out seeing the light at the end of the tunne;L “On the other hand, we are seeing signs that the cloud optimization across our customer base may start to subside.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2019

Tableau sells data visualization software and the team has built an incredible business. First, it’s the third business intelligence related acquisition in the past month. on these three businesses. It’s all good news for startups. We analyzed the S-1 in 2014. in revenue, growing at 29%. The $23.9B

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Brex is a company that provides credit cards for startups, and Alloy provides financing for small businesses. But to Michael Tannenbaum’s point, “You don’t want to comply yourself out of business. If you just focus on compliance all the time and take no risk, you have no business to protect.

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Scale Scaling compliance Forecasting 226

Nimble - Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems play a pivotal role in managing and nurturing customer relationships. CRM tools provide businesses with a wealth of data and insights, but harnessing this information effectively is a challenge many face.

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Management Data Business 70

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re part of a startup ready to enter the market or working at an established business ready to launch a new product, it’s critical to understand how to approach your target audience. Keep your momentum going with constant news and information to share. 1 + 1 = 3 Yes, you read that right: 1+1=3.

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Scale Marketing Social Media Advertising 202