Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Specifically, I’m talking about the videos that are trending on YouTube right now. Why Should You Use Trending Topics for Content Ideas? Trending topics make fantastic content ideas. First and foremost, you know that your audience is going to be interested in the topic if it’s trending on YouTube. It’s called YouTube.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 25, 2021

The a16z Marketplace 100 series explores the companies and trends behind largest and fastest-growing marketplace companies. Surveying the 2021 marketplace landscape: Which COVID-propelled marketplace categories will accelerate and which will make a comeback this year? See more at a16z.com/marketplace-100.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Google is pretty good at equipping users (and businesses) with information about what it considers important by providing resources like their search engine optimization (SEO) guides and the annual Search Trends report. What Is the Google Search Trends Report? Top Trends from the 2021 Google Search Trends Report.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

In today’s episode, we chat with Amanda Malko about her love of software, the trends she’s seeing in the industry, and how they’re affecting the way businesses operate. So we surveyed and looked at trends that we saw through G2 Track. One is just macro trends in how people buy as people, not even just as businesses.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This year in collaboration with G2, we investigated hundreds of tools in a variety of categories. So, whether you’re starting your sales stack from scratch or just trying to update yours for 2021, here are some of the key trends that have emerged in the last 12 months to help you nail it. Vendor Consolidation. Payback periods.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In 2020, your data has never been safer or easier to use, emerging trends have never been more exciting, and we’ve never been more connected to the people around us. Here are the 8 biggest SaaS trends of 2020. Many of 2020’s trends thus far have been heavily influenced by developments in related industries.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Below, I’ve listed those trends with data & excerpts from the earnings call transcript. Expected growth across segments is muted with an average of 5% growth across these B2B categories. Yesterday, Microsoft announced earnings.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If you haven’t read it yet, head on over to Part 1 of Ask Me Anything with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin to learn about sales in SaaS, how to create great SDRs and AEs, developing an impactful content strategy, and potential SaaS trends for the next 12-18 months. Will there be any new categories in the next 5-10 years?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 9, 2022

Examining multiples by sector, Security and Data commanded the juiciest premiums in 2019 and 2020, a trend paralleled in the private markets. Those categories have sustained the largest decline on a percentage basis. In the last year, the disparity across categories has narrowed.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 1, 2023

But, when my team saw the #pancakecereal trend taking TikTok by storm during the height of the pandemic, we felt we had to get in on the action—in a way that might change how our company thinks about innovation forever. On the flip side, we had to make sure we could deliver a product that was aligned with the trend.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As always, submit questions through the registration form & I’ll weave them into the conversation.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

Fintech is the biggest driver, pulling away from all other categories. The amount of innovation in sales, marketing and CX SaaS products continues to exceed my expectations, when it seemed for a while this category had sort of stabilized: 30% of the Cloud 100 is international. We’ve all seen this, but the trend is accelerating.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 3, 2023

For that trend to reverse, compelling businesses need to be built. Once other projects parallel this revenue success in other categories, venture dollars will surge again. Investors will value web3 companies as a function of their revenue potential, their revenue growth rates, & their growth efficiencies. Ethereum proves the point.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead of trying to use a clunky, forms-based search box, you can now have a conversation with Monty to discover the best app, even if you don’t know the best category (there are over 2,000 on G2). People can communicate as humans do, and AI uses those words and matches them to a business problem regardless of category.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2023

After the company hit $1M ARR, they began to see a healthy, upward trend. Great Startups Create Their Own Categories.” It’s undoubtedly true that creating a new category can propel a company to success. But category creation demands time, resources, relationships, and funding that not every company has at its disposal.

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ChurnZero

MAY 19, 2021

ChurnZero is proud to announce that it has been named a Category Leader for Customer Experience Software by GetApp. Category Leaders are designed to help small business evaluate which software products may be right for them. . Category Leaders for Customer Experience Software is available here.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

“With most companies under pressure to do more with less, customer success teams will have to specialize in one of two categories,” predicts LeanScale CEO and co-founder Anthony Enrico. Stay ahead of 2024’s customer success trends, challenges and opportunities.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. First, the emergence of an operations category. This operations category hints at the rising importance in the fundraising market of vertical SaaS companies. Series B medians were $19.0M

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BetterCloud

MARCH 2, 2022

Gartner’s most recent report titled Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022 found that organizations can gain a significant advantage by embracing a “distributed enterprise.”. These categories stood out to us for two reasons. Want to read Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022 report in its entirety?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding current trends in user experience (UX) design is more important than ever in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. UX trends are like having the newest technology: they’re the digital tools that make our time spent online more enjoyable.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition to the pitches themselves, the types of companies presenting forbear trends in the startup world more broadly. To get a better sense of those trends, I’ve categorized more than 250 startups in 3 recent classes and plotted the evolution of the classes.

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Totango

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Keeping up with new trends in customer success can help you promote repeat business and prevent customer churn. Here are four of the latest trends you need to know about: Automating customer success with out-of-the-box templates. Read on to learn how these important new trends in customer success can help you retain more customers.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

We also cover: Customer analytics categories. There are four categories of customer analytics categories. Perform feature ideation with trend analysis. Customer analytics categories to track behavioral data There are four main categories for analyzing customer data: 1. You’re at the right place. Churn rate.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Categories like this will make incredible apps for LMs and AI because of the high volume of tickets and high signal-to-noise. SynthAI won’t be as effective for other categories that involve negotiating a complex merger and term sheet. The Battle To Own The Workflow Incumbents have been quick to react to the ongoing AI trend.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin also wrote how Customer Success has now morphed into part of the sales team and that the 2024 trends in CS include everyone wanting to eliminate humans from support to replace that headcount with AI and bots. But we have to remake the whole category from scratch. The world has changed.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Software purchasing activity seems to be trending up, which should instill more confidence in their pipelines. A few notes on this analysis: First, not all software categories will grow 15%. For the last 3 quarters, startups have been executing on reduced targets, attempting to squeeze more juice from their Meyers.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 1, 2023

But, when my team saw the #pancakecereal trend taking TikTok by storm during the height of the pandemic, we felt we had to get in on the action—in a way that might change how our company thinks about innovation forever. On the flip side, we had to make sure we could deliver a product that was aligned with the trend.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2022

We expect these trends to continue in the near term, and we’ve reflected this in our guidance.” – per CNBC. Salesforce really now plays in all key categories, from commerce to infrastructure, from sales to support, and more. It’s our #1 largest vendor, and it’s in so many category. Billion in revenue.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2023

ClickUp has grown and found its voice in an industry of category players, with a staggering six million users within five years. Flip the script by proactively tracking customer’s journey, segmenting them into different categories with a tailored message for each category. Now, it’s different. ClickUp did the same.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

For example, Jimmy Daly, Marketing Director at Animalz , recently called out this design trend on Twitter. Although we’re not alone—custom photography seems to be another growing design trend for SaaS brands.). As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But the thing is, the underlying trends that power SaaS and Cloud are still here and as strong as ever. And there are still many categories of software and businesses just beginning to move to SaaS and Cloud. And there are still many categories of software and businesses just beginning to move to SaaS and Cloud. Billion in ARR.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

They don’t have the bandwidth to support five sub-partners in their category. Look at the most important categories that surround your category. The biggest trend hitting this industry is the impact of AI and how it relates to risk. It’s unprecedented growth in a crowded category, directly and indirectly.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

It provides insights into the latest trends, best practices, and networking opportunities in the SaaS space. The SaaS Awards : The SaaS Awards is an annual awards program recognizing excellence and innovation in SaaS products and services across various categories.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2020

Shift to new categories? How consumer spending evolves and the prospects for the largest technology companies are two of the more important trends in the next few quarters. Consumer spending in the US accounts for 68% of GDP The question is then: how do consumers change their spending habits over the next quarter? New brands?

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Shows the trend of new user sign-ups every week for the last 90 days. Activation Conversion Trend. Tracks the trend of the conversion rate from new signups to activation (reaching the ‘Value Moment’) over the last 90 days. Time to Activation Trend. Recommended metrics include: Monthly New Sign-ups.

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