Thu.Jul 03, 2025

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Dear SaaStr: How Long of a Ramp Period Should I Give a New VP of Sales?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Long of a Ramp Period Should I Give a New VP of Sales? Look, to be clear, the best ones just hit the ground running. Their first week and really even their first day. Everyone else … looks a little lost when they start 😉 For a Head of Sales at a seed or Series A startup, you should give them one full sales cycle —usually 90 days—to show meaningful progress.

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How to scale smart and unlock growth with fractional customer success leadership

ChurnZero

Picture this: You work for a startup. You know customer success is essential. But you’re struggling to build a robust CS function without overextending your resources. Sound familiar? Enter fractional customer success leadership: hiring a seasoned CS professional to take on a role on a part-time or contract basis. This might just be the flexible, scalable solution you’ve been searching for.

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The Surprising Enterprise AI Giants: Oracle and SAP (Really!)

SaaStr

Oracle Cloud Infra signs $30B+ year deal with OpenAI 🚀Many ways to benefit from AI 😪And many ways to lose from it If Oracle can find a way … pic.twitter.com/1rOZrzaRw4 — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 1, 2025 While everyone’s watching the flashy AI startups and hyperscalers duke it out, two enterprise software giants are quietly crushing it in the Age of AI.

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Scytale Now Supports ISO 22301, Simplifying Business Continuity for Modern Teams

Scytale

Scytale adds ISO 22301 to its growing list of security compliance and data privacy frameworks, empowering businesses of all sizes to maintain business continuity and demonstrate reliability. New York, NY, 3 July, 2025 From cyberattacks and technical outages to natural disasters, disruptions are inevitable. How your business prepares, responds, and recovers is what truly matters.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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The Latest 20VC + SaaStr: Rule of 80, 9-Figure Zombies, and the Death of Predictable Venture Math

SaaStr

We’re back on 20VC, with Harry, Rory from Scale and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin. On on Figma’s IPO, the AI transformation deadline, and why most B2B companies are already too late. The Bottom Line Up Front Jason’s Rule : “If you haven’t grown because of AI, you’ve failed.” After 18 months since ChatGPT launched, if your B2B company hasn’t re-accelerated growth through AI by June 30th, 2025, you’re likely irrelevant.

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6 Top-Tier Landing Page Examples Everyone Should Copy

The Daily Egg

A landing page is a focused and intentional space designed to offer web visitors one clear message or course of action. Usually, the goal is. The post 6 Top-Tier Landing Page Examples Everyone Should Copy appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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I Work Full-Time — Here’s the No-Pressure System That Helped Me Stay Consistent on Social Media

Buffer Resources

Let’s be honest — growing on social media while working full-time (and still trying to rest and live life) is no small feat. There were seasons when I promised I’d post every day. I’d open Buffer, make a beautiful calendar, and tell myself this would be the month I showed up consistently. And then… work got busy. Or I hit a creative wall.

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Using WP Location Finder to Create a Custom Branch Locator in WordPress

How To Buy Saas

Creating a custom branch locator on a WordPress website is now a necessity for businesses with multiple branches, dealerships, or service points. Customers want to find the nearest location quickly and easily, while businesses need to make sure the map displayed is brand-appropriate and easy to manage. One practical solution for creating a custom branch locator is to use the WP Location Finder plugin.