SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Bessemer Venture Partners had added a nice newsletter, Parting the Clouds , that’s very metrics dense. A few stuck out this week as helpful ways to summarize just what’s happening with SaaS public companies. Two big take-aways from this week: 53% of the BVP Cloud Index is trading under 6x ARR , representing 40 companies. The top tier of public Cloud companies is trading at 12x ARR, but they are growing 50%+ at $500m+ in ARR, with importantly, 15%+ Free Cash Flow margins.

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The Daily Egg

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

SEO isn’t dead—far from it. But it is more competitive than it was ten years ago, which means it’s harder to master. The post 7 Easy Steps to Increase SEO Traffic? appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

During Office Hours with Lee Kirkpatrick , Lee recalled managing a startup through a downturn. The business cut R&D spend to conserve cash. By prioritizing sales & marketing, the company successfully lengthened runway to increase revenue, which eased the subsequent fundraising. I wondered if a similar pattern existed in the public software markets.

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The Daily Egg

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you’re thinking about a side hustle that could turn into a rewarding full-time job, one option is to start a Shopify. The post 7 Easy Steps to Dropship on Shopify appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Tomorrow at 10 AM SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays begin! Up Next: Wednesday, November 2nd @ 10AM. Topic: The Playbook to Building a High-Performing Team and Retaining Top Talent with Snowflake. Speaker: Guan Wang, Global Director of Marketing Intelligence at Snowflake. Workshop Wednesdays is new series where we’ll be bringing some of the best SaaStr speakers to you LIVE, every Wednesday. .

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. The full post is here and thought we would include a bunch of the learnings here , as they are great. They also did an A+ session at Annual with several top India SaaS founders, which you can catch below! 22 Things We Learned at SaaStr 2022.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Enterprises have been moving steadily to the cloud for years, often paying for multiple cloud platforms — and the COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated that trend, as businesses closed offices and outsourced their on-prem operations. Now, as the pandemic seemingly winds down and workers are returning to the office, several questions arise: Has anyone on your team run an ROI analysis on your cloud use?

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Sage Intacct

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For many people, finance could be mistakenly viewed as playing a passive, historical role in the company. A common misconception thinks it is about number-crunching and accurately reporting past transactions and financial events.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As the world’s digital economy continues to grow and mature, digital infrastructure has become a key driver and enabler underpinning economic development. Along with computing power and network connectivity, efficient and reliable data storage is a cornerstone of effective digital infrastructure. By 2030, the world is expected to enter the yottabyte era, dealing regularly with data quantities on the scale of a quadrillion gigabytes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Companies in the top quartile of employee engagement have 23% higher profitability. Did you realize how much weight great coaching has on your long-term revenue growth? In most cases, strong individual contributors get promoted to manager but don’t have the leadership and coaching fundamentals that will directly impact revenue and keep top performers in-seat.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The truism that Hell is other people is proving true once again as companies that have standardized their brand assets using Pantone colors in documents created in the industry leading Adobe Creative Suite may now find those valuable items unusable thanks to reasons that make little sense. ** Updated to add statement received from Adobe. What’s the story?

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30 Day Leadership

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you are a leader and you are the center of your team, you’re doing it wrong. Many leaders think that this is the right place to be, after all I am the “leader” right? The simple answer is no. If it’s your team, your ideas, your direction, it’s a “you” show. In this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Jerome Placido , Sr.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For knowledge workers, location flexibility significantly improves outcomes related to innovation, wellbeing, burnout, and perceptions of organizational culture, according to the 2022 State of Teams report from work management company Atlassian. The research consisted of responses from 1710 knowledge workers across Australia and the U.S., between 21 and 65 years old, operating in teams.

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30 Day Leadership

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you are a leader and you are the center of your team, you’re doing it wrong. Many leaders think that this is the right place to be, after all I am the “leader” right? The simple answer is no. If it’s your team, your ideas, your direction, it’s a “you” show. In this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Jerome Placido , Sr.

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