Sun.May 10, 2020

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Why is the Stock Market Only Down 15%?

Tom Tunguz

Why is the S&P index “only” down about 15%? Given all the economic turmoil, shouldn’t the index collapse? I was wondering this so I went to the source of all truth on the internet, Reddit. As I read the investing subreddit , I stumbled onto an explanation written by VPride1995 using a simple mental model that illuminated one potential answer.

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Why Are the Public Markets Strong When Unemployment is Terrible? Answer: The Cloud

SaaStr

Q: Why are investors doing well while unemployment is terrible? Because The Cloud continues to perform well during these crazy times. And the public markets have become … The Cloud. While a little dated, this is my favorite visual representation of the S&P 500. It has become The Cloud: The Cloud was already growing fast. It is, for now, growing even faster during Shelter.

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Why is the Stock Market Only Down 15%?

Tom Tunguz

Why is the S&P index “only” down about 15%? Given all the economic turmoil, shouldn’t the index collapse? I was wondering this so I went to the source of all truth on the internet, Reddit. As I read the investing subreddit , I stumbled onto an explanation written by VPride1995 using a simple mental model that illuminated one potential answer.

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Sales lead gen without tradeshows during COVID-19

CloseSaaS

Right now, and for the foreseeable future, tradeshows are dead. If you relied on them in the past for lead generation, now is the time to adapt. Here are 5 ways to adjust to this new reality.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The First Three Slides of a SaaS Board Deck, with Company Key Metrics

Kellblog

I’m a SaaS metrics nut and I go to a lot of SaaS board meetings, so I’m constantly thinking about (among other things) how to produce a minimal set of metrics that holistically describe a SaaS company. In a prior post, I made a nice one-slide metrics summary for an investor deck. Here, I’m changing to board mode and suggesting what I view as a great set of three slides for starting a (post-quarter) board meeting, two of which are loaded with carefully-chosen metrics.

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