Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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An Android shortcut secret

IT World

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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Best Domain Auction Sites Compared

The Daily Egg

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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Some Folks in SaaS Are Still Doing Really, Really Well. E.g., MongoDB, HashiCorp, Monday, GitLab, Okta and More.

SaaStr

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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Best A/B Testing Tools Compared

The Daily Egg

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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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Clouded Judgement 12.9.22

Clouded Judgement

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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Serving the Multifamily Real Estate Industry with Software

Andreessen Horowitz

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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Airtable becomes latest company to announce layoffs, cutting 20% of its workforce

IT World

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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90% of Sales Leaders Do Planning Wrong. Here Are 5 Tips to Fix It.

Sales Hacker

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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Apple sets a security challenge for 2023

IT World

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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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.

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Veeam snaps up former Gigamon channel chief Larissa Crandall

ITPro

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

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Maybe you need a workstation instead of a PC

IT World

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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Ultimate Guide to Sales Forecasting: Using Sales Data to Level Up Your Sales Team

CloseSaaS

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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Webinar Recap: Deconstructing the Myths of Becoming a Payfac – December 2022

Infinicept

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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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

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 on Product: How ChatGPT changed everything

Intercom, Inc.

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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How Not to Go Cheap: The Data Behind Staying Away from Freemium and Focusing on Premium with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov and VP of Marketing Désirée Schildt (Video)

SaaStr

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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What Marketing Automation Campaigns You Need to Start Doing ASAP

Neil Patel

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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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.