Sun.Jul 21, 2019

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Is it recommended to require the credit card details upfront during the signup? Based on your experience and B2C SaaS history, what would be the best strategy for an online app to grow?

SaaStr

I don’t like asking for the credit card upfront. What I see time and time again is a short-term boost to short-term metrics, at the cost of longer term revenue and brand building. Why? 90% of the time, asking for a credit card immediately simply adds unnecessary friction to a sales process. It adds, best case, a pause or hesitation before using your product.

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16 Minutes on the News This Week: Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

Andreessen Horowitz

Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way — why are these topics in the news; what’s real, what’s hype from our vantage point; and …

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The Top Cloud Daily News Stories of The Week

SaaStr

Quora Spaces has added a new feature where you can see what content is most popular on our Cloud Daily feed there, which will hit 100,000 subscribers this week. Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? Well, now we finally know! Here are Top 6 cloud stories for this week: #1: “How Big Tech Companies Like Google and Facebook Set Salaries For Software Engineers”. #2: “The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance”. #3: “The Czech Cyber

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Ten Ways to Get the Most out of Conferences

Kellblog

I can’t tell you the number of times, as we were tearing down our booth after having had an epic show, that we overheard the guy next door calling back to corporate saying that the show was a “total waste of time” and that the company shouldn’t do it again next year. Of course, he didn’t say that he: Staffed the booth only during scheduled breaks and went into the hallway to take calls at other times.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.