Wed.Feb 08, 2023

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Investing in Macro

Andreessen Horowitz

In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless, internal teams have largely moved off of “hard files,” toward real-time workspaces with commenting, collaboration, and notifications. And yet, the way that organizations communicate with … The post Investing in Macro appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Planview Review

The Daily Egg

Planview is a comprehensive project portfolio management (PPM) platform that helps organizations maximize the value of their investments in projects and resources. The post Planview Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Cvent at $650,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So everyone knows Salesforce, founded in 1999, originally to manage your salesforce. But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. Cvent. It’s still around, too. A lot of it is a bit old, and hard to use, and expensive. But after taking a hit from lockdown, it bounced back, IPO’d for the second time via a SPAC, and today is at $650,000,000 in ARR, growing 20%, with a health 21% EBITDA margi

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VivifyScrum Review

The Daily Egg

VivifyScrum is web-based project management software that can accommodate small teams and larger organizations alike. As the name implies, VivifyScrum delivers tools. The post VivifyScrum Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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Dear SaaStr: Is It a Bad Idea for Founders To Invest Their Own Money Into a Funding Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is It a Bad Idea for Founders To Invest Their Own Money Into a Funding Round? No — but it depends on how much, and how much that is of their net worth. One way or another, every founder is going to invest some of their own money , at least a tiny bit, to get a startup off the ground. As well as a ton of soft costs and lost income.

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ChurnZero earns G2 Best Software awards for 2023

ChurnZero

Washington, D.C., February 8, 2023 — ChurnZero, the platform and partner for Customer Success, has earned the G2 2023 Best Software Awards for Fastest Growing Product and Best Product Management Product, based on customer reviews submitted to G2. In just a few years, ChurnZero’s rapid growth has seen the company go from new entrant status to an industry leader, employer of choice, and acclaimed innovator in the Customer Success category.

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Nimble Adds New Deal Pipelines to Microsoft 365

Nimble - Sales

We are excited to announce we’ve updated our Nimble Prospector Add-In for Microsoft 365/ Outlook to support our newly Redesigned Deal Pipeline features. Now you can create and manage your new redesigned Nimble Deals straight from your Microsoft 365 Inbox, Calendar, Outlook Mobile and Outlook Desktop apps! As you may have heard, we recently soft-launched […] The post Nimble Adds New Deal Pipelines to Microsoft 365 appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Windows 12 and AI: a coming boon or boondoggle?

IT World

Microsoft has gone all in on artificial intelligence (AI), pouring $10 billion in the OpenAI startup — and that’s just the opening gambit. Expect many more billions to follow. There’s good reason for that investment. AI will reap many billions in revenue for the company, particularly its cloud business. Microsoft already has released a public preview of its cloud-based Azure OpenAI service which will allow businesses to use AI without having to build infrastructure.

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Top 6 Recurly Competitors and Alternatives: An In-Depth Review

FastSpring

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e., subscription management, payment processing, and more) for SaaS companies.

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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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Zoho unveils Trident unified communications platform for the enterprise

IT World

Zoho is moving its Trident unified communications suite out of a private beta program and into public availability, marking the public launch of the company’s first native applications for that category of software. Trident, according to the company, is designed to be a central communications and organizational hub for an organization’s workers to access email, instant messaging, phone and video calls, and perform task management and scheduling.

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Eddy Lazzarin

Andreessen Horowitz

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Google Maps gets more immersive live views, even from above

IT World

Google today announced several upgrades to its search, translate and maps applications that use artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to provide expanded answers and live search features that can instantaneously identify objects and locations around a user. In at an event in Paris, the company demonstrated upgrades for its Google Maps Immersive View and Live View technology, along with new features for electric vehicle (EV) drivers and people who walk, bike or ride public tra

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How to Strategically Time the Launch of Your SaaS Business

SaaSHolic

Whether you’re eating an ice cream cone or starting a business, timing is everything. The right timing allows you to achieve higher rates of productivity while continuing to meet your organizational benchmarks. Enter the market too early, and your business idea could crash and burn. Enter too late, and it may have lost all relevance. It’s all about finding the sweet spot.

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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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Do Google and Mozilla know something about Apple we don't?

IT World

Yet more signals suggest Apple may be preparing to open hitherto closed elements of its ecosystem: both Google and Mozilla are working on iOS web browsers that don’t use WebKit, Apple’s rendering engine. Mozilla and Google seem to be prepping Mozilla’s GitHub repository now contains code for Firefox on iOS that uses the company’s own Gecko rendering engine rather than WebKit.

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A glance at AES 256 encryption and it’s importance for data security

SaaS Metrics

By now we have seen many advancements in the technology used to protect sensitive information. However, one encryption algorithm that has stood out, in particular, is called AES 256 Bit Encryption. This cutting-edge and highly advanced encryption method is becoming increasingly popular in the business world for its ability to protect against. Read more The post A glance at AES 256 encryption and it’s importance for data security first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Live Virtual Roundtable: Generative AI: Friend or Foe?

Sales Hacker

With economic pressures mounting on the horizon, we know our reps need to build their own quality pipeline, accelerate deal velocity and improve win rates, all while having less resources and time than ever before. The create & close era of sales is here and it’s stopping for no one. But how can we all quickly adjust to hit quota? With generative AI on the scene like ChatGPT, it looks like we may have our solution… or will this resource only complicate the landscape even more?

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BetterCloud Tops G2’s Best Software 2023 List for Security, Enterprise & IT Management Products

BetterCloud

We are thrilled to announce that BetterCloud was named to G2’s Best Software list for the second year in a row. Over the last year we’ve had our leadership on G2’s quarterly grids confirmed quarter after quarter, and we are excited that this recognition has put us on G2’s annual “best-of” list. What makes this recognition so unique is that it’s based on feedback we received from actual IT professionals who have used the platform, engaged with our team, and seen the value that w

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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.

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Feb 08 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

Role: VP Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Unifyed As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll drive Customer Success Outcomes. Increase renewal rates and reduce churn. Expand revenue in accounts through cross-sell and up-sell. Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall health scores.

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CRO Confidential: How To Adapt Your Sales Strategy To The Current Sales Environment with Sam Blond and Hannah Willson, SVP of Sales at Modern Health (Pod 632 + Video)

SaaStr

Every week, more and more companies are doing big layoffs. As news of layoffs continues, many are left wondering what happened and how to shift course. Many startups missed 2022 revenue goals and are forecasting slower growth for 2023, especially compared to the explosive growth of teams and revenue during the Boom of 2021 and early 2022. In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, Founders Fund Investor Sam Blond sits down with the SVP of Sales at Modern Health, Hannah Willson, to discuss how

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Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI 

Andreessen Horowitz

When OpenAI released its chatbot ChatGPT last year, proponents were quick to announce the death of various writing-related fields, such as screenwriting, computer programming, and music composition. One particular field stood out as a sector that would feel the power … The post Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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