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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. Tabular is a compelling data lakehouse solution, meaning it brings data warehouse functionality (SQL semantics + ease of use) to the data lake (cost-efficient and scalable).

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Chief Revenue Regrets: Relying on Reps to Provide Forecasting Deal Data

InsightSquared

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. This piece will focus on the importance of activity capture.

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Why we invested in Athenian

Point Nine Land

If you take a look at a 50 person sales team, you’ll likely find it to be very data-driven. They usually track low-level metrics about their app performance or errors, and agile teams have burn-down charts. But because the data lives in different systems (e.g. Providing a lot of data is comparably easy.

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

SaaStr

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! A mentor of mine suggested that I reframe my search to seek out companies that I would invest in, instead of the other way around. He told me, you can invest time, talent, or treasure. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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Sales Forecasts and Pipeline Reviews: Why and How

Point Nine Land

A methodology in five simple steps I learned how to run forecast and pipeline reviews, first, by distilling what my sales managers did when I was a sales rep and, then, building my own systems as a sales leader at Revinate, at Framer, and advising a number of B2B SaaS companies. Why forecasting? I’ll suggest two perspectives here.

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The New Era of SaaS Forecasting

Baremetrics

Data science is beginning to replace spreadsheets for entrepreneurs wrestling with uncertainty in their business models. If you’re like most SaaS founders, you’ve googled for a saas financial template you can use to forecast your subscription business. As of the writing of this post, a query for “SaaS forecasting” returns 2.8

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CRO Confidential: Why Your Startup Needs A Rev Ops Leader With Cherishma Shah, Senior VP Of GTM Strategy, Operations, and Enablement at Guild Education (Pod 648 + Video)

SaaStr

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. If you’re growing quickly and making a lot of sales hires, you might invest earlier. Not every leader is created equally.