SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

This SaaStr Classic post didn’t much of an update, but we added a few things to it. Take a read if you are still running finance yourself, or just have an part-time outsourced resource. — Jason, ed. In the old days, we didn’t have to worry about finance too much. Companies grew more slowly, there was nothing for a CFO to really do for years, and you could sort of outsource everything and just keep an eye on the bank statement.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 24, 2022

Defining your niche is crucial for inbound and outbound sales, but the process is often misunderstood. Learn how nailing your niche can help close more deals. The post Why Nailing the Niche for Outbound Sales Differs From Inbound appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

More companies are embracing product-led growth (PLG), but these transitions can come with some serious growing pains. We’ve experienced this first hand at Reprise , and if you enjoy learning from the mistakes of others, then you’re in for a treat. . Want more? Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates. Before Product-Led Growth. Our target market is US-based enterprise sales, marketing teams, and companies with software.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, Dremio started in our offices. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation. The business has cemented itself as a foundational component of the Modern Data Stack. About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Today, we call this idea the data lakehouse and a query engine.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

Q: What thoughts do truly successful entrepreneurs have? What successful entrepreneurs know: It will work. Maybe we’ll fail, maybe we won’t be the ultimate winners or the ones that bring it to market. But the idea? It will work. We can recruit the team. It takes an amazing team to build anything and we know how to recruit the team, especially the few amazing folks we need in the beginning to get it off the ground.

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are apparently eager to invest in technology to help attract — and keep — finance talent and workers with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) skills, according to a new survey. Financial services and human resources software vendor Workday last week released its latest Global CFO Indicator Survey , which indicates that nearly half (48%) of CFOs plan to invest in consumer-like interfaces to attract future finance talent within the next five year

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity ? Or what is customer-centric service ?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is no secret that in order to grow a SaaS company, business leaders need to consider cash flow. A poor cash flow means limited capital for creating growth opportunities. It can also threaten a small business's ability to keep up with everyday operations. Invoice financing is an excellent option for SaaS companies looking for a fast and easy way to earn a short-term type of funding.

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Payment Features Finance SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

In business, we’ve used Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for years. But I’m now seeing recommendations that consumers VPN software to make your Internet connections more private so sites can’t snoop on your surfing and other communications. As someone who runs a website that uses IP address reputation as a guide to know who is and is not reputable on my site, using a VPN often assigns you an IP address that’s less than stellar.

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Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Inturact

JANUARY 24, 2022

Video content has been the backbone of today's Internet viral marketing. It's been at the forefront in engaging the audience and creating a lasting connection between your brand and its target market.

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GetUplift

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of my favorite ways to learn and get new ideas for conversion rate optimization comes from reading detailed case studies. . I’m not talking about the kind of vague “case studies” that tell you about one minor change to a page they made and how it increased sales by 450%. I’m talking about detailed walkthroughs. The kind of case studies that share the entire process from A-Z and give you the whole picture so you can draw your own conclusions and then test that approach on your own. .

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

The global shift over the past two years to remote work has led to something unexpected: an uptick in the adoption of a four-day workweek, raising hopes that a tipping point could come soon. In a number of industries, calls for a change to the standard five-day, 40-hour week grew after many companies began to rethink how work is done in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 24, 2022

We all know how transformative B2C marketplaces have been in bringing markets online and creating new ones — Instacart, Airbnb, Rover, and GOAT just to name some of the largest. What’s talked about less — but equally powerful — … The post Investing in Inventa appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. Join Kristina Finseth (Director of Growth Marketing at Interseller) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker.

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Apple plans what Mark Gurman describes as the “ wildest array ” yet of new hardware introductions this year. While these new expectations confirm earlier speculation about what's in the pipeline for consumer markets, what’s coming for enterprise pros this year? Arriving this spring. Apple is preparing to make a range of announcements this spring, including an iPhone SE with 5G, new iPads and new Macs — potentially including a larger iMac and a souped-up new model Mac mini.

Business 79

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Infinicept

JANUARY 24, 2022

By Deana Rich, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Infinicept For years, the payments industry has avoided directly addressing the problem that it unintentionally yet frequently funds hate groups and harmful individuals. That all came to the forefront on January 6, 2020, when insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol. Companies like PayPal, Square, and Stripe quickly shut down payments processing for smaller.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity ? Or what is customer-centric service ?

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

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Payments

CloseSaaS

JANUARY 24, 2022

LinkedIn is a multifaceted platform that can also act as a sales funnel when used efficiently. Learn these top-5 tips to enhance your profile, streamline outreach, and engage leads.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity ? Or what is customer-centric service ?

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

Trujay

JANUARY 24, 2022

There is always a point in running a business when you realize that your client base is growing faster every day and employees cannot organize it properly anymore. It is a good sign for you as an entrepreneur – your idea is becoming popular, but it is also a problem – you need to decide […]. The post CRM Success: Making Business Sense appeared first on Trujay: Migration & Integration Solutions.

Business 52

Business 52

SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

In a highly digital world, companies must maintain a strong presence online to attract new clients and customers, get quality leads, build brand awareness, and increase their sales revenue. Your company can achieve this by setting up a website. But having a website alone isn’t a guarantee that your company will get. Read more. The post 5 Key Principles Of An Outstanding Web Design first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Revenue

CloseSaaS

JANUARY 24, 2022

How are high-performing sales pros prospecting to get more leads and make more sales? Check out these data-driven trends for 2023 and apply them to your own business.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

The number of content creators is on the rise. YouTube has over 50 million channels, with almost 30,000 having at least a million subscribers each. TikTok boasts almost similar results with over a billion active users a month. New video creators are popping up every day, and the competition is getting tougher. Read more. The post A Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Professional Home Video Recording Studio Within a Budget first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2022

Join this workshop if you want to finally get the return in sales from events that you’ve always wanted. We will share the exact tactics Kronologic uses to drive 10X in pipeline from events in 2021, some even closed 50% of pipeline in less than a quarter! The post 2022 Sales Playbook for Events: New Sales Tactics to 3X Event Pipeline appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Starting a new business has its own set of challenges, especially if you choose to begin your business journey in the IT industry. In such a competitive and saturated industry, few things can give you an advantage over others. One of the ways to get an edge over others in the IT. Read more. The post Facts You Should Know About SaaS Business Model first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

C-Suite-level jobs require meticulous experience and a proven ability to make a difference in an organization. If you are a customer success leader with the ultimate objective of obtaining a C-level position, this blog is specifically written for you. . As a customer success leader, you have just reached one milestone in your career. Still, to conquer Mount Everest (achieving a C-level position in an organization), you need to buckle yourself and corner various hurdles to be at the pinnacle of y

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Any modern business needs to have an automated billing system. It is efficient, consistent, and reliable. Most industries are utilizing this efficient billing system nowadays. But many businesses still use the outdated traditional billing system, which results in suboptimal management of billing functions. Such mismanagement can be pretty problematic for the business.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

Just like over the last decade, and even more pointedly in the last two years where we’ve seen most purchases in our consumer lives go online; B2B transactions are undergoing that same transformation. . So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates.

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