Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

High growth software companies are valued based on forward revenue multiples. In other words, to calculate the enterprise value of a business, you multiply the revenue by the forward multiple. But, how does the market set the multiple? What predicts the forward multiple, or correlates with it? I pulled together the data for the basket of the roughly 60 publicly traded SaaS companies and ran a linear regression to understand the predictive power of the many key metrics reported by public companie

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So our SaaStr Digital events since March have been wildly successful — much more than we expected. With 100,000+ total attendees, and probably 200,000+ including on social, we’ve had a ton of fun and learned a lot, from the CEO of Slack, Box, PagerDuty, Unsplash, and so, so much more. Our next big Digitial Event will launch next week, SaaStr Scale 2020 on Dec 8-9.

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The Daily Egg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The days of mailing paper invoices and getting paid via hand-signed checks are long behind us—modern billing has gone digital. As a business owner or CFO, you know how important accounts receivables are to your company. Delayed payments can cause cash flow issues that quickly snowball into more severe troubles. Billing and invoicing software is […].

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Totally spot on. So much of sales is process and execution. If you have the materials to work with, success is completely possible. — Brendan McAdams (@brendanmcadams) September 21, 2020. When you are finally ready to hire your VP of Sales, oftentimes, there’s often a bit of a quiet panic around time. About getting the hire done. Because there’s a window.

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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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As a business owner, you know reviews and fresh content are essential to your success. Suppose you’re passionate about promoting your business. In that case, you likely spend a lot of time creating new blog articles, crafting social media posts, or developing video content to keep your audience engaged. But there’s another, more passive promotion method that can help grow your business and boost your local search results: Google Local Guides.

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Nimble - Sales

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As explained by FICO, bad credit is a credit score of 300 to 629. Generally, bad credit is a typical reason that creditors turn down small-business loan applications. Consumers with bad credit scores are deemed at higher risk or more chances of defaulting on a loan. Regardless, borrowers with bad credit still have financing options. […]. The post Business Financing Options for People with Bad Credit appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I’m James Davison, Chief Product Officer here at InsightSquared taking you behind the scenes of our Revenue Intelligence Platform launch. . Let’s start with the obvious. Product launches are HARD. There are a million details, months of work, huge investment in both capital and resources. It’s no surprise companies can’t afford to do them very often, so when you do, you want to make them count. .

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CloseSaaS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Ready to turn your ideal customer profiles into something that actually helps your sales team close more deals? Discover our customer profile analysis hacks to gather & understand data, and use it to boost revenue.

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The SaaS CFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The role of finance and accounting in a SaaS company is probably a mystery to most. Yes, we pay the bills and say “no” to a lot of expenditure requests, but there is a lot going in the back office. And, as your SaaS business scales, so must the capabilities of your finance and accounting […]. The post The Role of Finance and Accounting in SaaS appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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Chargebee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There are many ways an idea for a change can hit you. It can happen during an intense brainstorming session or on a Friday evening as you relax with a glass of whiskey. ?? But whenever that magic spark goes off in your head, it’s pretty exciting.

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Cobloom

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With constant growth being crucial to maintain competitiveness in SaaS markets , scaling l ead generation is a core challenge. Even with an effective lead gen process in place, your work is far from over. You need to be continually attracting growing numbers of right-fit visitors, and converting more of them into qualified leads. Thankfully, there are a few actionable tactics you can use to improve your ability to generate leads.

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Upscope

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You've tried every note app and stopped using them. Why? We're too damn lazy to organise things top down. We just want to scribble them down and auto-magically they get organised. I don't want to FIND my bucket list to add things to it. I want to write down my bucket list idea and it finds my bucket list and adds itself to it. Roam Research is how you do it.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Think about the time, energy and resources you put towards acquiring new customers. Now, how much time, energy and resources do you put towards increasing the revenue you get from your existing customers, a.k.a customer expansion? If you’re like a lot of SaaS companies, chances are you’re fixated on customer acquisition. Most of your marketing dollars are probably spent on ads and content to get more people to sign up for your product.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Given the choices that customers have in today’s SaaS industry, customer focus has become indispensable for a SaaS company. Gone are the days when you could anticipate customer needs and produce your offerings to succeed in the market. Now the need of an hour is to strategize more precisely your business processes to fit the right market. Customer focus service can be a competitive advantage if you have the right mindset.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. The best domain registrars are affordable, easy to use, and secure. But with thousands of options to choose from, analysis paralysis takes over. From privacy and security to configuration and DNS management, it’s understandable to feel confused or unsure.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Metrics form an essential part of any business. For driving growth to any business, you need to know where you are and where you want to go. Metrics give you precisely that information based on which you can formulate your business strategies. Out of all the metrics for different business units, we are going to discuss today about the customer success metrics.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There’s no single path to the top in Sales. In some ways, it’s kind of like selling deals — you have playbooks and guides on how to win, but at each step of a deal, you have to ask the right questions and pick a next move that’s specific to that deal. So I can’t offer a paint-by-numbers guide or a single specific approach. But what I can do is give you real-world guidance to move to the next stage of your career, and actionable tips on maximizing your opportunity.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

BOSTON — SEPT. 21, 2020 — InsightSquared , a leading provider of revenue intelligence solutions, today introduced the industry’s most complete Revenue Intelligence Platform —featuring Activity Capture, Guided Selling, Interactive Reports, AI Forecasting, out-of-the-box Dashboards—and now, Conversational Intelligence, adding rich call and video meeting data to the company’s machine learning analytics engine.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. This is no surprise when you realize 70 percent of people would prefer to learn about a company through an article rather than advertising. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business.

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SaaS Metrics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The growing number of IT services and providers has made it tough for businesses to choose the right one. Competing with established players in the market, HOSTNOC is offering a variety of IT services at affordable rates. What is more, HOSTNOC never compromises on the performance, security, and support. Is all that enough to help HOSTNOC beat the competition and thrive in a competitive marketplace.

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