SaaStr

JULY 24, 2020

The reality is is that if you’re a startup just getting off the ground, PPP isn’t a legitimate option for you. Unfortunately, the reality is most of them are just waiting and sitting on their hands. The reality of their businesses, our business, is that we can’t afford to miss the next great company.

Scale 140

Scale Finance Investment Government 140

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2 of the most highly-demanded features on our roadmap also became a reality this year. We ran it entirely virtually and it was a great event — not just because we had a lot of fun, but also because it resulted in a feature that was added to the app. This year, we also held our first internal hackathon. Ready for 2021!

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Sales Hiring Subscription 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2 of the most highly-demanded features on our roadmap also became a reality this year. We ran it entirely virtually and it was a great event — not just because we had a lot of fun, but also because it resulted in a feature that was added to the app. Sent a simple support query… @ChartMogul replied in 1 hour ??, Baremetrics 1.5

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Sales Hiring Subscription 52

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. This leads us to the reality of customer success processes in many companies today. Or perhaps not. That’s a false hope.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There are lots of effects that use “augmented reality” technology. With these effects, you can make it seem as though you’re interacting with virtual items, and you can also change your appearance. With this method, you simply select a particular behavior and a video category this behavior applies to.

Social Media 145

Social Media Marketing Marketplace as a Service Advertising 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Jason Lemkin: Coming up on 500 million in revenue, whatever the exact number is, no forward looking statements in this presentation but what’s super interesting that I’ll make sure we talk about even here is that Coupa has redefined the category and now has more revenue in this category than ever existed.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 147

Neil Patel

JANUARY 10, 2021

Qualified employee retirement plans—that is, those that have tax advantages—fall in two major categories, only one of which is used widely today: Defined benefits plans are managed entirely by employers. They offer virtually every type of employee retirement plan available and give people a huge range of investments to choose from.

Compensation 115

Compensation Government Investment Pricing 115

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Where we focus our efforts is really in the area of virtual selling. Categories like sales development, inside sales, account management, and now, field sales, actually falls under that umbrella. You name it, we’re here to make your virtual selling efforts more successful. That’s just the realities of the situation.

Underperforming Technical Team 80

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 80

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

While good advice is always important, money is absolutely critical in today’s startup environment where a hot category can quickly evolve into a financial arms race to see which company can “buy” the most customers the fastest [4]. Companies need two things from their investors: advice (e.g., an arms race) and thin (e.g.,

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 79

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple is a visual commerce platform that allows its clients to seamlessly integrate 3D and augmented reality tools into their brand experience. You’ll hear Justin’s founder story and how he created a first-in-market platform that allows companies to seamlessly integrate 3D and augmented reality tools into their brand experience.

Payment Methods 115

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 115

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Thomas: There’s lots of experience in this virtual room! But in reality, Product Tours was only ever going to solve a small portion of the problem for those customers. Mat: One of the really unique challenges we have at Intercom is that our products fall into two categories of stuff that our customers use.

Mobile 212

Mobile Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 212

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

So we specialize in six outcome categories: revenue, recruiting, capital raise, M&A, IPO and competitive outcomes, and we work with customers across about 20 different verticals. Specifically, one of four categories of mistakes have to do with people I hired, people I didn’t hire, people I fired and people I didn’t fire.

Scale 105

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 105

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In reality, I don’t think they are easier to use. They all work virtually the same. What you’ll find, with Themeforest, is that there are a lot more options: You can sort themes by category, tag, price, popularity and more. For an owner building a website for the first time, this is attractive at first.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

We can divide disruptive innovation impacting B2B companies into three categories. Any of these categories of innovations can prove disruptive for B2B businesses. These emerging technologies like artificial intelligence , virtual reality, robotics, sensors, etc., are transforming everything around us.

B2B 10

B2B Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Social Media 10

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 25, 2023

New product categories that are fully designed with the user in mind must be developed and released by software solutions. Pay attention to client segments: You may want to pin these SaaS industry trends because it will always be in style if your aim is to become the ultimate SaaS champion.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Trends 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As CEO of Gainsight , he has done more than most to popularize the category in the B2B SaaS world, and these efforts recently culminated in the company being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 Sales fill in the plan, and customer success makes the plan a reality.

Scale 223

Scale Customer Success Scaling B2B 223

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Disappearing photos however was not a good fit for either of those models, and likely best lent itself to subscriptions and virtual goods, both largely unproven at consumer internet scale. The Types of New Product Expansion There are many ways for a company to expand its product offering, with different levels of difficulty.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 8, 2019

Today, there’s SaaS products to support virtually every business function, and increasingly for specific segments too. Several forces have combined to make this a reality - chief among them is the mass migration to cloud computing from on-premise software, and the fact that it’s never been easier, quicker or cheaper to launch a SaaS company.

Sales Enablement 112

Sales Enablement Technical Review Technology Scale 112

Unbounce

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With products extending into virtually every category imaginable, competitive pricing, and guaranteed shipping options, most online shoppers have little reason to look anywhere else. The opportunity to educate shoppers on your category and the specific value proposition of your product. 49% of internet users in the U.S.

Scale 144

Scale Marketing Merchant Services Social Media 144

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Teladoc, Cigna Virtual Care has been super helpful to my family. Some are less obvious like tele-health. This came from necessity.

Scale 158

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 158

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Which web hosting provider is the best option in this category? But as your site grows, you might want to consider a VPS (virtual private server) or dedicated WordPress hosting solution. Unfortunately, we live in reality—not a perfect world. WordPress web hosting can be segmented into a handful of different categories.

Development Team Review 145

Development Team Review Technical Review Outsourced Development Engineering 145

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Weeding through thousands of Shopify app options that promise optimized outcomes in all sorts of categories can be daunting, to say the least. Whether a customer is about to abandon their cart or depart from your virtual window, Sumo automatically creates targeted incentives to convert these browsers into shoppers. What It’s Best For.

Merchant Services 106

Merchant Services Advertising Strategy Engagement 106

Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

Your content is visible to shoppers on product detail pages, related product feeds, and category-based feeds. Getting lost in a virtual reality world is about more than just computational capacity and frame rates. If your brand falls into that category, don’t waste any more time. Sometimes, less truly is more.

Social Media 130

Social Media Advertising Branding Engagement 130

Brian Balfour

JULY 5, 2017

What the search for market product fit looks like in reality, not just in theory. We raised $5M out of the gate from top tier VCs to build a virtual goods platform (this was pre-Facebook platform days). We had a solution (virtual goods platform) that was looking for a problem and a market (dating sites, social networks, etc.).

Retention 76

Retention Product Marketing B2C Startup 76

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

—Google’s parent company—says revenue from those products is bundled into the “other” category (think phones and speakers), which made $5.3 billion last quarter, making it difficult to gauge the specific performance of any single product bundled under that category. We know pricing tends to become a bigger challenge as companies grow.

Revenue 52

Revenue Social Media Travel Pricing 52

BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The digital workplace consists of dozens, even hundreds of SaaS applications, making full visibility virtually impossible. But in reality, the process is fragmented and extremely manual. Check out this blog post: Gartner’s New Market Category: SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs). Let’s explore each in further detail.

Management 119

Management SaaS Scale DevOps as a Service 119

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

What’s important for us is your ability to define a category and become a centerpiece of a value chain and attract people to you rather than the other way around. This is not reality.” This is how they outpaced Elation and Informatica and became the leader in the Gartner Quadrant, right? They defined what data insights is.

New CTO 146

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 146

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The quant tells you the unemotional reality of what’s happening, but you come to the real conclusion by bringing in your understanding of your customer and their business.”. Consider getting your team together and brainstorming on a whiteboard (or a virtual board like Miro , if remote). How often are they logging in?

Startup 91

Startup Scale Systems Review Technical Review 91

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

” But it’s important to plan that it’s flexible enough so that you can pivot those realities of today and tomorrow. Now obviously, everything that you’re doing has been virtualized or digitize. In many respects, I actually think the world is moving faster, because of this sort of complete virtualization.

Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 145

Baremetrics

JULY 1, 2019

And while customer research is a popular topic in the startup-sphere, the reality is that many are doing much more preaching than they are practicing. Both primary and secondary research can be broken down into two types of data: Qualitative : Concerned with understanding human behavior and assumes a dynamic and discoverable reality.

Software Review 95

Software Review Startup Sales Hiring Social Media 95

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, I think in a bunch of categories like healthcare and distance learning and infrastructure, this recession, which super sucks for a lot of people, it is going to be an accelerator for tech, because businesses are going to rely on technology and are also going to adopt technology faster. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve categorized the list (roughly) by sales discipline — and within each category, titles are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s name. To find the books most relevant to you, first, find the category you’re interested in, then browse the books within that list. Mastering the Complex Sale, 2nd ed.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

But the reality is, because I was the first person on the ground at Salesforce, I was the first person on the ground and Marin, I was the first person on the ground at another company called AngelPoints. And the reality is, in that first run up to three, four or $5 million, things are changing all the time.

Scale 95

Scale Sales Hiring Technical Advisors Automotive 95

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Right when COVID hit, we did a virtual event called the New New in Venture. And that… Look, cloud infrastructure and established categories of enterprise software are close to recession-proof. Yes, it benefits the privileged. Yeah, there’s a huge bifurcation out there right now. You can go to SaaStr.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

View, modify, and collaborate on various types of digital product data in 2D, 3D, and augmented reality. Duro brings together other important business technologies, such as CAD and ERP, into a consolidated basis of truth, with the quickest go-live time in its category. Visit Website. Features of PLM Software aPrior.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Traceability Marketplace as a Service 52

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The reality is you need to find one of the responsive WordPress themes for your personal blog launch’s success. This responsive WordPress theme is mobile responsive, modern, and can be used for virtually any subject or business objective. I just couldn’t find the right one for me. But I know better now.

Content Marketing 142

Content Marketing Marketing Mobile Software Review 142

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Before they know it, analysis paralysis sets in, and they find themselves consumed by a virtual alphabet soup of SaaS metrics and corresponding acronyms (CAC, ARR, ACV, LTV, to name a few). The reality of lead generation is that not every lead generated by your marketing team will evolve into a legitimate sales opportunity.

Benchmarks 71

Benchmarks Metrics Scale Sales Recruiting 71