Thu.Aug 31, 2023

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Dear SaaStr: How Does a First Time Founder Identify 10x Hires?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How does a First Time Founder Identify 10x Hires? How do you hire a great CTO, a great VP of Product, a great VP of Sales … if you’ve never worked with one? It’s hard. There’s a reason almost every founder you talk to had a mis-hire for their first head of sales. Because they didn’t really know who a 10x hire would be, at that stage, back then.

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This Creator Grew to 20k+ YouTube Subscribers – Then She Started From Scratch

Buffer Resources

When Aprilynne Alter started her YouTube channel in 2021, she didn’t expect it to grow the way it did. Her content about learning how NFTs work and documenting her progress in creating them attracted an audience of more than 22,000 subscribers. In the process, she learned how to grow on YouTube and gained an appreciation for the medium. But NFTs and the broader web3 space weren’t Aprilynne’s topic of choice.

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The Power of Private Equity and a $1 Billion+ “Double Acquisiton”

SaaStr

Huge congrats to @iDedupe + @elasticull and team @logikcull !! Proud to have been the first venture investor!! [link] — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) August 29, 2023 I was lucky enough to be the first venture investor in a next-gneration ediscovery startup, Logikcull, way back in 2015. A flash-back to them at $1m ARR or so here: Andy Wilson CEO has been part of SaaStr events and contents since then, and a great session below on how they scale, and a great post here on how they migr

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Customer Acquisition Guide For SaaS: Definition, Metrics and Examples

User Pilot

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? This article answers that and more. You’ll learn: The different stages of the acquisition funnel Teams responsible for acquisition Why the process doesn’t end when customers sign up to use your tool Effective customer acquisition channels and how to reduce customer acquisition cost How to measure your customer acquisition efforts TL;DR Customer acquisition refers to the actions and strate

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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250+ Braindates Already for SaaStr Annual 2023!! Here are The Top 6 So Far!

SaaStr

We have 250+ Braindates already for SaaStrAnnual.com 2023 next week!! Amazing smaller, deep dive sessions with top leaders in SaaS and Cloud. The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1. Navigating Corporate Venture Capital: Strategic Benefits for Early-Stage Founders with Erin Yang, VP and Chief Technologist Workday Savannah Greene, Principle @ Workday #2: How Expensify Grew to 10M Users Through Word of Mouth Joanie Wang, Director of Marketing and Brand #3.

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10 formas comprobadas de generar ingresos pasivos en 2023

Entrepreneur - SaaS

Desde iniciar un negocio en línea hasta publicar un e-book, estas son ideas inteligentes con las que puedes empezar a generar ingresos pasivos.

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Heap vs Google Analytics: Which Analytics Tool Is Better?

User Pilot

Heap and Google Analytics are popular product analytics tools that help businesses pursue product growth with data-driven insights. In this article, we’ll go through the main differences between both tools to help you understand which one is better for you. TL;DR Heap is a data insight platform that helps you analyze customer behavior data. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool for analyzing website and mobile app traffic and marketing data.

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Unlock Effective Follow-Ups: Transform Your Strategy with Nimble’s New Email Reminders

Nimble - Sales

Introducing a new era of streamlined communication and enhanced organization – Email Reminders. With Email Reminders, you gain the power to set specific time intervals for a vigilant “watcher” to monitor your email threads. Whether a response is received within the designated time or not, you’ll always stay informed. As your conversations flourish, the ‘Watched […] The post Unlock Effective Follow-Ups: Transform Your Strategy with Nimble’s New Email Reminders appea

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NPS Calculation: Formula and Methods

User Pilot

Navigating customer sentiment is crucial for any business, and one effective way to measure it is through Net Promoter Score (NPS) calculation. This insightful metric quantifies customer loyalty and satisfaction, which offers insights that help analyze your product’s success in meeting customer expectations. In this article, we’ll dive into how to calculate Net Promoter Score with the formula and best methods to do it.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Stock Option Trend for Tech Companies in Silicon Valley

TurnKey Labs

In the highly dynamic world of Silicon Valley, the ever-transforming landscape of compensation strategies adopted by Tech Companies is nothing short of innovative. Stock options—once a generous enticement to lure in top-notch talent—are now a common component of a competitive offer to attract talented developers.

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NPS Calculation: Formula and Methods

User Pilot

Navigating customer sentiment is crucial for any business, and one effective way to measure it is through Net Promoter Score (NPS) calculation. This insightful metric quantifies customer loyalty and satisfaction, which offers insights that help analyze your product's success in meeting customer expectations. In this article, we'll dive into how to calculate Net Promoter Score with the formula and best methods to do it.

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This Creator Grew to 20k+ YouTube Subscribers – Then She Started From Scratch

Buffer Resources

When Aprilynne Alter started her YouTube channel in 2021, she didn’t expect it to grow the way it did. Her content about learning how NFTs work and documenting her progress in creating them attracted an audience of more than 22,000 subscribers. In the process, she learned how to grow on YouTube and gained an appreciation for the medium. But NFTs and the broader web3 space weren’t Aprilynne’s topic of choice.

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Heap vs Google Analytics: Which Analytics Tool Is Better?

User Pilot

Heap and Google Analytics are popular product analytics tools that help businesses pursue product growth with data-driven insights. In this article, we'll go through the main differences between both tools to help you understand which one is better for you. TL;DR Heap is a data insight platform that helps you analyze customer behavior data. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool for analyzing website and mobile app traffic and marketing data.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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How to Issue Stock Options to Offshore Developers

TurnKey Labs

In the highly dynamic world of Silicon Valley, the ever-transforming landscape of compensation strategies adopted by Tech Companies is nothing short of innovative. Stock options—once a generous enticement to lure in top-notch talent—are now a common component of a competitive offer to attract talented developers.

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Salesforce Data Cloud Model Explained

CloudKettle

Introduction While many Salesforce products including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Education Cloud, Health Cloud and other Salesforce industry clouds are built on a common ‘core’ platform that share the same datastore (an Oracle relational database), Data Cloud uses a very different architecture and technology stack from other ‘Clouds’ in the Salesforce product line.

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What is a Key Account Management Playbook? Where can I download a Free template?

SmartKarrot

Image Source According to Survey Sparrow, the top five companies in the market maintain a customer retention rate of 94%. If it is any indication, the secret to a thriving business is retaining key existing customers with consistent effort. While every company intends to grab more business from existing clients, the key account management playbook can help streamline these efforts.

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The Evolution of Open Source Business Models

Tom Tunguz

Open source software has evolved from a movement into a big business. Gitlab, Confluent, Databricks, MongoDB, Elastic, Snyk, Hashicorp, Mulesoft, have become huge companies using open source software. Across, just these they have generated about $100b in market cap. Company Status Market Cap or M&A Value, $B Databricks Private 38 MongoDB Public 28 Confluent Public 10 Gitlab Public 7.7 Elastic Public 7 Mulesoft Acquired 6.5 Hashicorp Public 5.5 Total 104 Early on, open source pioneers viewed

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.