Sun.Nov 15, 2020

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Eventually. Everyone Has a Sales Team

SaaStr

The lure of freemium (like The Force) is strong. No headaches. Customers try and buy all on their own. Like magic. And. No salespeople. Well, that can work. For a while. Maybe even forever, if you don’t want to build something really big. But to Go Big, almost everyone in SaaS at least eventually adds a sales team. Yes, Twilio started off as self-service.

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More Activity Means More Business. Don't Overthink It.

Tom Tunguz

“More activity means more business. Don’t overthink it, just act…The target is dozens of net new interactions per week, building many shallow relationships. They aren’t fake, just shallow.” I have found this to be true. I like to think about it like Brownian motion: jiggle more atoms by talking to more people and there’ll be more activity all around you.

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How to Interview a Product Manager

SaaSX

This article should really be titled, “How to interview a product manager (if you aren’t a product person) “ Because customer success, marketing, sales, support, and other operational roles are key stakeholders in a SaaS organization they are often called into the interview process for product managers. Especially for a company’s first product hire when there is no formal product function and a company is adding a product manager for the first time.

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Indemnity vs Breach of Contract Claim in a SaaS Terms of Service?

Aber Law Firm

When negotiating a saas terms of service (representing the vendor of course), I am often trying to explain to my client the difference between an indemnity and a breach of contract claim. I have been noodling on this for years, trying to figure out a simple way of explaining probably the most complex contractual legal concept that exists (by the way, I am not sure I have nailed the explanation, but hopefully this is a good start when negotiating your saas terms of service).

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Indemnity vs Breach of Contract Claim in a SaaS Terms of Service?

Aber Law Firm

When negotiating a saas terms of service (representing the vendor of course), I am often trying to explain to my client the difference between an indemnity and a breach of contract claim. I have been noodling on this for years, trying to figure out a simple way of explaining probably the most complex contractual legal concept that exists (by the way, I am not sure I have nailed the explanation, but hopefully this is a good start when negotiating your saas terms of service).

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