Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Below, I’ve listed those trends with data & excerpts from the earnings call transcript. About 70% of commercial Office subscribers use Teams.

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User Pilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When your company adopts multiple SaaS solutions to drive productivity, you unknowingly create a perfect storm for data fragmentation. Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Sound familiar?

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

This means having the right technology team in place, setting up ample customer support options, and ensuring that your team is available and trained to address software challenges when they occur. Bad software user experience User experience is everything when it comes to SaaS platforms. This helps alleviate confusion.

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Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Analytics reports like paths, funnels, and cohort tables for visualizing user behavior data. for collecting user sentiment data. In fact, it was first created as an analytics tool, and only in recent years has it also developed an engagement suite. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams. Userpilot Chrome extension.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Most customer relationship management (CRM) tools have the built-in ability to create dashboards for your team. CRM data can be difficult and time-consuming to sort through.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” What will they choose?

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, compliance industry trends and requirements adapt accordingly. Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. Artificial Intelligence advancements also come with new insider threats.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains. This may seem counter-intuitive, but they are as important as evidence, facts, and data.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

The thing about data is it helps you make better business decisions. Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Why are there so many data analytics tools? You have to arrange your data, explain it, present it properly, and then derive a conclusion from it. Or is your team less technical?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Activity tracking apps such as Fitbit (29.5%) and Strava (41%) tend to use more of their screens to show visualizations of activity data rather than representing that data in text or language.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Data labeling turns raw data into useful information that can then be utilized for optimized marketing. However, turning raw data into labeled data takes time. The good news is data labeling is scalable when you work with the right data labeling software. What Is Data Labeling?

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! Some of our newest products are actually in the data area, where we’re generating unique data that the life science industry needs. If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. TRANSCRIPT .

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

It’s built for product people who need clear insights without drowning in data. In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. Why choose Userpilot for mobile analytics?

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User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. The first stage of an ideation technique involves gathering ideas from different sources such as feature usage trends, feature requests , customer reviews, user behavior, and competitor analysis.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

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. It might be a systems person or someone deep in data analytics who can quickly translate different data points.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

They kept the focus on the core value proposition of helping teams write, plan and collaborate to create better workspaces, while still having the AI inclusion. This trend of AI reinforcing and amplifying the core UVP (unique value proposition) is gaining momentum. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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). If you want your data platform to run like those at Netflix, Salesforce, Stripe, AirBNB and many others (i.e. Let's dive in.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc. Here’s why.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its purpose is to collect data necessary to personalize the onboarding experience by highlighting relevant features or resources for each user type. The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users.

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Review feature usage data. Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. Niche features. How to effectively analyze product features: Define your objective. Specify the metrics to track. Ready to begin?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Let’s face it: qualitative data analysis is vital to understanding why users act in a particular way and how they feel about your product in a way that quantitative product analytics can’t. This article will teach you how to analyze qualitative data to inform product development and improve the product experience.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. How is it trending? And every question you ask yourself, you have to ask yourself, how is it trending? How is that trending? What does our customer lifetime value, how is that trending? Are there particular trends?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Audience segmentation and targeting: You can create user groups based on their attributes, behaviors, or custom data like subscription plan, app version, and in-app purchase status.

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Totango

MAY 5, 2021

It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . Generally sent to customers right after onboarding or other key events, this data can be utilized to leverage success by: Helping you perfect your onboarding process. .

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. “How do you make sense of and identify the trends in the many conversations your team is having with your customers?” What does success look like?

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Developer API Documentation, API, Examples, FAQ and more. Developer API Documentation, API, Examples, FAQ and more. Great for small to medium teams with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Ideal for teams needing real-time insights and distributed system support. Best for teams managing complex microservices.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

For example, an orchestrator might take a user prompt, select the best model for that task, handle any context or data lookups, then merge the outputs before returning an answer. In data-driven apps, you often use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The result is faster AI feature development and fewer manual interventions.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad. Joel: Sure.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. And the data backs this up.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Still curious which sales trends will be on the rise in 2021? Keep reading for the most important sales trends your revenue organization should keep a close eye on.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wondering how to analyse qualitative data and get actionable insights? This article will help you analyse qualitative data and fuel your product growth. We’ll walk you through the following steps: 5 qualitative data analysis methods. 5 steps to analysing qualitative data. What is qualitative data analysis?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The first hire after six AEs was a senior hire, Ashley Kelly, as Senior Director of Sales Development.

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