IT World

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Have I ever mentioned how much I love shortcuts? All right, maybe I have. (Maybe, erm, somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,942 times , come to think of it.) But oh, it be true. There's just something so impossibly satisfying about knowing you're increasing your efficiency and slicing soul-sucking seconds out of your day. And on Android, whoo boy, have we got some awesome opportunities for cutting out steps and achieving Mega-Nerd™ levels of efficiency obsession.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Almost everyone in sales is going to have to work harder next year. Better to embrace it now, if you haven’t already. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) December 8, 2022. So look, very few, if any, SaaS or Cloud companies are out there saying times are easier now than 12 months ago. Probably none. Everyone from Amazon to HubSpot to Salesforce is saying is tougher.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Of the eight platforms we reviewed, GoDaddy Auction is our favorite domain auction site. It is one of the largest domain marketplaces. The post Best Domain Auction Sites Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

No pressure, but the pricing model you choose can make or break your SaaS business. But it can be difficult for founders to figure out the right structure for their business. Fortunately, other successful SaaS leaders have experience with this challenge. In a special session from SaaStr Annual 2022, Hristo Borisov (CEO & Founder at Payhawk) and Désirée Schildt (VP of Marketing at Payhawk) share their secrets to choosing the right pricing strategy that can make a premium business.

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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 9, 2022

After reviewing eight different solutions in this category, we found VWO to be our favorite A/B testing tool (that isn’t our own). The post Best A/B Testing Tools Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

There are only so many hours in a day. 24, to be exact. And if you’re like me, you have a list of seemingly never-ending tasks to fill those hours. Social media posts, blog posts, SEO, PPC, financials, processes – you name it. But when you’re scaling and growing your small business, you need to start cutting time from as many tedious tasks as possible.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Can High Growth Businesses Become Profitable? I went back and looked at the last ~50 software IPOs and benchmarked them across a number of metrics. One chart I found interesting was tracking how each business grew from the time they hit ~$75m ARR.

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ITPro

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Industry veteran will lead Veeam’s channel business as vice president of global channel and alliances

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently. Regardless of your revenue goals, if you can be faster and more effective at your sales planning practices, you will give your sellers a competitive advantage.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Multifamily real estate in the U.S., which includes apartment buildings, condominiums, townhouses, and mixed-use developments, is one of the largest asset classes in the world. Approximately 44 million residences are considered multifamily , and they account for 31% of all … The post Serving the Multifamily Real Estate Industry with Software appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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IT World

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Low-code platform Airtable has announced it would be laying off 254 employees across business development, engineering and other teams, around 20% of its workforce. In an internal email first seen by the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi (which is built on Airtable), Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu said the company will be evolving from a “bottoms-up adopted product” to “bringing connected apps to large enterprises.

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CloseSaaS

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Accurate sales forecasts give you the ability to make smarter, better-informed decisions. In this article, we take a look at what sales forecasting is and how to improve your accuracy.

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IT World

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I was at a meeting in New York this week with a major PC vendor, and one of the things the company’s sales data shows is that people who should be buying workstations — or even gaming machines — are buying mainstream Windows PCs instead. (The focus wasn’t on gaming, but on productivity and performance.) Given I’ve been covering PCs and workstations since the early 1990s, I want to explain the difference between the two and when you should consider one over the other.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Infinicept

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Deconstructing the Cost of Becoming a Payment Facilitator (Part 4 of the Payments Education Webinar Series) Being a payment facilitator has many touted benefits: you bring payments in-house, you get more revenue, and more control over the merchant experience. However there has been quite a bit of fear-mongering about the investment. We’re going to debunk some common myths (and fears) about.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Which executive role gives you the best likelihood of becoming CEO? Traditionally, it’s the chief officer of finance or operations. But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” Twenty years ago, COOs accounted for 76% of CEO promotions in the S&P 500.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. We chatted about DALL-E, GPT-3, and if the hype surrounding AI is just that or if there was something to it. He told us things were starting to scale. And just like that, we’re at it again. ChatGPT , OpenAI’s prototype artificial intelligence chatbot, launched last week and it has been making the rounds in the halls of the internet, inspiring amazed react

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IT World

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Given Apple's big moves this week to roll out new data protection tools for iMessage and allow users to encrypt more of their data in iCloud , it seems obvious that security is going to be a major Apple priority in the year ahead. Stamping out surveillance. The Biden administration’s decision to blacklist the mercenary hackers at NSO Group was a welcome move, but it hasn’t stopped the "surveillance-as-a-service" industry.

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