Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Here’s one for the appliance repair software category : “The consumer will pay a lot more if they can get a same-day repairs agreement along with the appliance. So what we’re talking about here is fundamentally rethinking the way business is transformed using our platform and gen AI.”

AI 149

AI Innovation Technology Subscription 149

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If R&D is so critical to a company’s success, why then do R&D budgets lack the same discipline of other spend categories? Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 124

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams that handle operations and maintain infrastructure. The result is lots of semi-meaningful alerts, noise, context-switching, and multitasking for the on-call engineer. We can divide alerting information into two broad categories. These two categories work best in tandem.

Engineering 209

Engineering Software Review Systems Review AWS 209

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2021

Developer tools and business-to-developer companies are among some of our favorite category of startup. If you’re an engineer, and you hear about an interesting project, the first place you’ll land is the documentation. Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts.

Development 217

Development Scale Education Acquisition 217

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While we use Zapier here at SaaStr and are super familiar with it, for those who don’t use the tool, it’s a workflow automation platform that connects your data sources and apps to help maximize the efficiency of your teams, tools, and processes without relying on a developer team.

Scale 268

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Marketing 268

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Thanks to ever-changing social media algorithms and the ever-growing list of platforms that make them, it’s easier than ever to become a creator. So, while it’s great (and ideal) to build a platform off your personality, it’s not the most realistic method.

Social Media 124

Social Media Venture Capital AI Search Banking 124

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. They’re the type of messages your customers need to receive even if they’re unsubscribed from other categories of messages, like promotional ones. Password reset.

Payments 218

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Subscription 218

Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2019

Engineering dominates with 37%. Many is the next category. Engineering barely made the list. 5 of the 11 companies selling to engineering are open source - about half. Platform includes products that help developers to build applications: payment gateways and low code platforms.

Enterprise 193

Enterprise Payments Payment Solutions SMB 193

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2021

They expand the platform. Support, engineering, product, sales, success, marketing, everyone. Agreed, the entire content marketing platform category got to 10-30M in ARR before churn eventually made the category fizzle out. It’s not market size. Almost always. They solve a bigger problem. They go upmarket.

SaaS 363

SaaS Venture Capital Churn Branding 363

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” Fortunately, the always excellent KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) 2021 SaaS Survey – which covers over 350 private SaaS companies across various stages and categories – provides a very rich data set to work from. ” Simultaneously, valuations for the highest growth SaaS platforms have grown disproportionately.

SaaS 272

SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 272

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S., and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. First, there was a LOT to like about the company: The market size was, and remains, huge.

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While many e-commerce owners focus on product home pages, it’s easy to neglect your category pages. When introducing SEO for your category pages, you aid their discoverability and encourage more traffic, which can increase sales. Tip 1: What Are Category Pages and Why Are They Important? Sound good? Why is this? Not bad, huh?

Social Media 91

Social Media Engineering Customer Lifetime Value Consulting 91

Frontegg

DECEMBER 21, 2022

G2’s Winter 2023 Reports are here and we are thrilled to announce that Frontegg has been awarded a total of 42 badges including Leader rankings in the CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) category for Best Support, Easiest To Do Business With, and Highest User Adoption amongst many others. The Leading Solution for Startups and SMBs.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review New CTO 94

User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

Group content into modules and categories. Group content into modules and categories Use clear and consistent modules and categories to help customers quickly find what they are looking for. Having search engines in your help center makes it easy for customers to quickly find the specific information they seek.

Software Review 103

Software Review AI Search SaaS Technical Review 103

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

There are a lot of subtle pros and cons and issues, but for most Big Tech Companies, the pro to buying a startup is time and scale: Being able to enter a space or category quicker. You can have a platform with customers now, not in the year or two or longer it would take from scratch.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Startup Software Review Acquisition 167

Neil Patel

JANUARY 3, 2023

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an ever-present concern for website owners and marketers. The most common examples of this are the pages of a website or categories on a blog. In particular, search engine crawl bots. For example, multiple e-commerce product pages can be linked to a category page.

Engineering 85

Engineering Social Media Branding User Experience 85

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Perplexity — an AI-native answer engine — utilizes a bare-bones UI similar to Google that makes it clear that users are meant to ask a question. For a social app, this may be having 5 friends on the platform, for a work collaboration product, it may be joining a few channels. AI-native products are following suit.

AI Search 101

AI Search AI Retention Artificial Intelligence 101

How To Buy Saas

MAY 10, 2024

Are you worried about your website’s low ranking on Google and other search engines, and struggling to attract traffic? To get your website to rank high on search engines, you must focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies, and there are several SEO tools and software in the market to the rescue.

AI Search 59

AI Search Scale Engineering Pricing 59

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cross-Side Network Effects (Marketplaces and Platforms). Based on whether you are pursuing a global or local network effect, you can usually either constrain the audience by category or geography to start: Grubhub started in one neighborhood in Chicago, for example. Amazon started with just books.

Product Marketing 131

Product Marketing Marketing Scale Software Review 131

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Search engines like Google have gotten great at inferring user intent based on the queries they enter and the context around them. The point is, you can also search your own product’s name or product category and see what keywords the top ranked results share. Ask yourself, what category does your product fall under?

Social Media 84

Social Media Systems Review Technical Review Branding 84

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Check out our Transparent Pricing Dashboard How our finances have evolved while staying true to our mission Looking at our finances over the last nine years, you’ll notice fluctuations within the different categories. Several categories of expenses help support Buffer’s overall operations. Stripe payments make up 98.5

Merchant Services 80

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 80

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You can build your store on one of the best e-commerce platforms around, make it look like a million dollars, and create enticing descriptions. Because the higher up your site is in the search engines, the more likely you are to get click-throughs. Category Page. Is your e-commerce store failing to set the online world alight?

Software Review 97

Software Review Technical Review Mobile Engineering 97

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This will force startups to move up-the-stack into the platform and application tiers. This will occur in all major SaaS categories, products serving VPs of Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Customer Support. Data engineering is the new Customer Success. 1% of Salesforce’s revenue makes a unicorn.

Blockchain 176

Blockchain Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 176

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

The answer to these questions is simple: You need an Etsy SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the practice of developing content, copy, visuals, and a slew of other factors tailored to increasing search visibility. Why You Need an SEO Strategy For Your Etsy Shop. How Etsy Search Works.

Payment Methods 135

Payment Methods AI Search Artificial Intelligence Social Media 135

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Kevin: We really do see AI not as a product and not as a research project, but as a real platform for lots of people to build many interesting new things on top of. Going back to this whole point of, if you’re building a platform, the platform has to get built with partners and it has to get used by partners.

AI 96

AI Azure New CTO Software Development 96

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Revenue contribution across these categories is 64%, 23% and 13%. I regard Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as the leader in enterprise platform-as-a-service. OpenShift provides a modern development environment for software engineers. OpenShift provides a modern development environment for software engineers.

Acquisition 197

Acquisition Application Development Software Engineering Pricing 197

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

While Google, Bing, and Yahoo control the West’s market share of search engine traffic, alternative search engine Baidu is the king of search in China. Yet, the biggest asset Baidu offers is its search engine. percent of the search engine market share in China and boasts around 1.54 billion searches per day.

AI Search 103

AI Search Mobile Engineering Advertising 103

Buffer Resources

MARCH 19, 2024

  YouTube is effectively the video version of its parent company, Google, so the way users discover videos on the social media platform is a lot like how they search for something on the search engine. YouTube video SEO (or search engine optimization) is much easier than it sounds. The best part?

Social Media 115

Social Media Engineering Trends Engagement 115

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

When you look at how to segment your audience for messaging, consider these three broad categories: Industry: This is your wider audience that cares about who you are and what you do. Category: These are your decision-makers. Understanding these categories can help you tailor your messaging for optimum impact.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI Social Media 90

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Let’s dive into the key reasons you should add your hotel to Google, Tripadvisor, and similar hotel booking engines. The more platforms your hotel is listed on, the more people will see it. Building trust with search engines and customers takes time when using your hotel website and social media profiles. Increase Visibility.

Payment Methods 119

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Social Media 119

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

The following are 40 advanced and alternative search engines that you can use to find just about anything on the Internet. To start off our search adventure, let’s look at some general search engines beyond the top three — Google, Bing , and Baidu. Looking for a search engine based on computation and metrics?

Engineering 144

Engineering Entertainment Trends Technology 144

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Melanie Fellay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spekit , a just-in-time platform that is transforming how we learn at work. Spekit meets reps with the process guidance, enablement and knowledge they need, right when they need it, in their flow of work to help them be more efficient, drive more revenue and eliminate the friction of change.

Airlines 90

Airlines CTO Innovation Engineering 90

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

The 2023 edition is the biggest so far, with 20 speakers and four categories. Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product. Product management and leadership speakers. Product growth speakers.

Scale 105

Scale AI Growth Hacking Innovation 105

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

Let’s break down how customer journey touchpoints fall into each category. Touchpoints may involve any medium you use to interact with customers, including: Search engine marketing. Generally speaking, SaaS business touchpoints can be organized into eight main categories based on the main stages in your customer journey : Awareness.

B2B 118

B2B Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 118

Neil Patel

JANUARY 19, 2023

I think it’s fair to say that Shopify is one of the best e-commerce platforms. However, whichever e-commerce platform you choose, there’s more to it than creating your content and pressing ‘publish.’ On the plus side, though, the platform uses SEO best practices and keeps up-to-date with Google’s latest guidelines.

Software Review 85

Software Review Social Media Mobile Engineering 85

Neil Patel

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s why it’s vital to start paying attention to your internal search engine – and making changes that can improved results and drive conversions. site DIY.com helps users filter results search pages by offering a number of filters, including price, availability, and category. Here’s how to do it. Target the “Spearfishers”.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Mobile Engineering Machine Learning 145

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Many social media platforms are rethinking the way they reward their top creators.  The networking platform is doubling down on skills, experience, and a bit of leg work in the Top Voices program. Building trust with your followers on LinkedIn, as is the case on any social platform, means being transparent and authentic. 

Social Media 128

Social Media Branding AI Engagement 128