Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

High vs Low Margin SaaS Models Software is an inherently high-margin business. But if you can execute, there are some compelling tailwinds to take advantage of: available talent, less competition, and a rigid focus on sound business fundamentals. It’s not easy to build a great company in a difficult economic environment.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Over 100 Indian founders were in town for a unique double header: SaaStr/Dreamforce and the launch of SaaSBOOMi US. Application SaaS has matured and increasingly there are fewer niches available to build large businesses. The full post is here and thought we would include a bunch of the learnings here , as they are great.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. In fact, we launched a little bit before Amazon.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In June 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Rebecca and her mother — child psychiatrist and scientist Dr. Helen Egger — launched Little Otter. We designed Little Otter to be a kind of family-first, in-your-home model. The company means a great deal to both of them. You don’t know when issues are going to come up.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Streamlining Success: Five Keys to Automating Usage-Based Billing for SaaS By BluLogix Team Don’t forget to sign up now to learn more about how to implement usage based pricing models in our upcoming webinar with MGI Research. This flexibility is vital for adapting to changing market conditions.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint. I started out skeptical of ChatGPT , the “word AI,” and its Large Language Model (LLM) brethren.

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Unbounce

JULY 7, 2021

Since opening our doors 10 years ago, Unbounce has existed to help small businesses grow by making access to essential digital marketing tools easy. Since opening our doors 10 years ago, Unbounce has existed to help small businesses grow by making access to essential digital marketing tools easy. It’s difficult to start one.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. The 2023 edition is the biggest so far, with 20 speakers and four categories.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Thanks to massive technological advances happening in big data and AI, Justin saw new possibilities for improved user experiences with a brand. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2020

The trouble is these pricing models don’t have anything to do with the benefit you’re getting from the product. Over the past year, Unbounce has really focused on fuelling growing businesses and empowering digital marketers like you. When you succeed, so does the provider. Hey, we’re not perfect. ” Nope.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today I’m turning the page – but not on what I do: my focus is still all-in on helping businesses as their fractional CTO. I work with businesses as early stage as pre-revenue, and as mature as growing-nearing-exit with engineering headcount approaching 100.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. Some pure hardware businesses have capex requirements that would break a typical venture fund’s model. Software is also a lovely thing to scale. In many cases, I understand.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2024

Key factors to consider in a user behavior analytics tool To determine the best user behavior analytics tools for your needs, you must consider a range of factors, including your product, business goals, and budget. This article explores the top behavioral analytics tools to help you choose the right one for your needs.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Who’s here on a CEO or more on a business hat SaaS? Who started their business more than three, four years ago? Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. The business environment and adoption. Raise your hand. A lot of that as well. One more question.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2021

We stand by these trends (and we believe they’ll accelerate this year): The role of product led growth and the centrality of pricing to a product led growth strategy. The subscription model is robust and held up well under the stress of the pandemic. Pricing models must be adaptable, by Steven Forth.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

AI writing assistants are invaluable for creating powerful product tour microcopy. This is essential for the product-led growth model where monetization can happen only when users see the product value. A product tour can accelerate it by prompting regular user interactions with the feature. Book the demo to find out more!

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. So why the subscription business model? The 4 types of subscription businesses.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. McKinsey is producing some strong content on the future of work as is my friend Dan Turchin on his AI and the Future of Work podcast.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

How should founders expect to see their new business pipe be impacted by COVID? What is the right tone to adopt that achieves both empathy and a business objective? Hear from Garry Tan, co-founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital, about how to protect your business during a crisis.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

371: It’s no secret that businesses today are struggling with an unpredictable economy. Transcript of Episode 370: Jennifer Tejada: But I thought today I would start off with a little bit of good news, and that good news is the fact that digital acceleration has truly become a reality. That is really happening in the marketplace.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If your CS team is focused solely on profitability of the PS line of business and not on adoption or usage growth rates, then you’ve got a problem. Sound familiar? Without a doubt, driving a successful end-to-end customer lifecycle optimization of this stature is no small feat for an enterprise organization.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. So why the subscription business model? The 4 types of subscription businesses.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. But when you grow, you need to work with your scalability, but infinite scalability is not your first target when you launch your product. You have until midnight March 31st.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. Why your CFO shouldn’t own the revenue model. 5) What drives success in business? [7:00]. What You’ll Learn. How to develop a sophisticated sales recruiting engine.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? We launched a year ago and we’re based in New York and the team is seven people today.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

I’m not sure about the reasons, but my guess is: Job opportunities become more scarce, which means that some smart and driven people are forced (or encouraged) to start their own business. For the fourth year in a row here are our annual team predictions (we’re also late to the party ?? but it’s a tradition now).

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Wes Ulysse , Head of Sales, North America at Red Points, a SaaS company that’s leveraging AI and machine learning to protect brands’ online intellectual property. Wes Ulysse: We leverage AI and machine learning to take down counterfeits. What does Red Point do?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Founded: 2015.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Salesforce now receives thousands of applications for its Accelerate program, but the fundamentals of a good candidate remain the same : good ideas, good insights and an entrepreneurial drive. Short on time?

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2024

The goal of user tracking is to know pressing user concerns derived from user behavior and to address them for the benefit of both the customer and the business. Amplitude is the best event-tracking software. Hotjar is the best tool for tracking users with session recordings. Tableau is the best user data visualization tool. Path analysis.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

The undeniable advances in artificial intelligence have led to a plethora of new AI productivity tools across the globe. If you’re looking to accelerate product growth and adoption with the help of AI, you’re in the right place. SurferSEO: AI-generated blogs, SEO optimized. Synthesia: AI video generator.

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