OPEXEngine
JANUARY 10, 2023
CFOs should think about automation as an “additional teammate” in their financial departments as they look to push digital transformation initiatives forward in the new year. CFOs are bracing for a potential recession as 2023 begins, with some predicting a downturn to start within the first quarter of the new year amid slumping consumer spending and increased costs.
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2023
Calcalist summarized a report from Viola Capital in Israel on the state of Israeli unicorns. Their analysis? Half aren’t unicorns anymore. This sounds about right to me, and the data they looked at is interesting: 40% of unicorn rounds were led by “one-off” investors, tourists. This makes the valuations suspect. Israeli startup funding in 2H’22 was back to the pace of 2019.
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Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 10, 2023
Frank Bien at Looker kicked off each year with a theme. A decade later, I still remember them. These themes focused the company & the board. The management team wove that theme through every board deck during the year. I imagine the internal messaging prioritized it, too. One year, he dubbed the Year of the Hound. Looker had focused on technical data teams as its ideal customer profile for the early years.
FastSpring
JANUARY 10, 2023
There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. This article is meant to help by providing two important factors to consider when choosing a recurring billing tool. The first factor to consider is which part of the billing cycle you need help with. In broad strokes, recurring billing consists of four steps: Setting up trials, recurring billing intervals, and pricing models.
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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.
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion into ChatGPT owner OpenAI as it looks to integrate the GPT3-based chatbot into its search engine Bing, Semafor reported. In 2019, Microsoft had invested $1 billion in OpenAI to expedite efforts to further artificial general intelligence for “widely distributed economic benefits.
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ChurnZero
JANUARY 10, 2023
No matter what your role in Customer Success, creating and ideating on new content, strategies and engagements is key to the customer relationships you build and the results you drive. This essential aspect of your job can also be one of its most time-consuming. That’s why, today, ChurnZero launched Customer Success AI , an incredible way to supercharge your customer communications and develop impactful new approaches to the work you do.
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly the darling of the tech world, thanks to ChatGPT , an AI chatbot that can do things such as carry on conversations and write essays and articles with what some people believe is human-like skill. In its first five days, more than a million people signed up to try it. The New York Times hails its “brilliance and weirdness” and says it inspires both awe and fear.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 10, 2023
You may have already started to feel the earth move under your feet…. We know you’re feeling it too… inbound pipeline is slowing all while business support teams are spread thinner than ever before. It’s clear, the rules for surviving (and thriving) in this new era are different. We as revenue and go-to-market leaders must adapt. If you boil it down, every rep – and every revenue organization – must do 2 things incredibly well to stay afloat: Create more pipeline, efficiently.
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
The number of remote and hybrid jobs increased 20% last year, continuing a pandemic-led trend that saw remote jobs jump 12% in 2021, according to a new report by online job site FlexJobs. While the rise in remote and hybrid jobs over the past two years isn’t surprising — the arrival of COVID-19 forced many companies to embrace workplace flexibility — the percent of remote or hybrid roles for manager- and senior-level positions is noteworthy.
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.
Nimble - Sales
JANUARY 10, 2023
We’re excited to announce our new Nimble Workflow Automation Feature, a new way of automating repeatable engagement processes to scale your business relationships! Nimble’s new Workflow Automations were built to automate routine processes and tasks for contacts and companies within our New Nimble Workflows Feature. Our Workflow Automations give you the ability to create triggered […].
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
When he laughed at the arrival of the first iPhone , then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear he thought Apple had no chance of success. Things have changed a lot since Apple introduced iPhone in January 2007. The product that changed everything. At the time, Apple was an iPod company that made also-ran, underpowered PowerPC Macs, too. Today, it’s the iPhone manufacturer whose iPad devoured the netbook ‘industry’ and whose entry-level Macs with their custom silicon deliver low-energy comp
30 Day Leadership
JANUARY 10, 2023
Have you ever wondered why people don’t meet your expectations? Maybe the reason is that you didn’t set the expectation properly or maybe the other person didn’t know it existed at all! Expectations are misset all the time and it causes real frustration and trouble for leaders and their teams. On this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Francois Dellea , Senior Director of Engineering at Archipelago , about managing expectations and relationships as a leader.
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
Meta has launched the AI-based Variance Reduction System (VRS) in the US, to reduce bias in the distribution of advertisements, after working in partnership with the Department of Justice for a year. The company had announced its plan to create VRS for equitable distribution of ads as a part of a settlement with the DOJ, which was representing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in June last year.
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.
Kalungi
JANUARY 10, 2023
Would you believe a small icon can make a big difference in your business's impact and impression?
CloseSaaS
JANUARY 10, 2023
Over the past several years as the sales partnership manager at Close, I’ve helped turn our service partners from teams we work with into win-win-win partnerships. Here's how you can do the same.
Kalungi
JANUARY 10, 2023
Would you believe a small icon can make a big difference in your business's impact and impression?
How To Buy Saas
JANUARY 10, 2023
ERP software is a software package that integrates all business operations in one place. This helps to improve the efficiency of all business processes, enhance competitiveness and increase the productivity of an organization. As technology evolves, the business world has adopted the latest technologies to further empower its users with more flexibility and freedom in managing their businesses.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
30 Day Leadership
JANUARY 10, 2023
Have you ever wondered why people don’t meet your expectations? Maybe the reason is that you didn’t set the expectation properly or maybe the other person didn’t know it existed at all! Expectations are misset all the time and it causes real frustration and trouble for leaders and their teams. On this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Francois Dellea , Senior Director of Engineering at Archipelago , about managing expectations and relationships as a leader.
SaaS Metrics
JANUARY 10, 2023
Tech solicitors play a crucial role in the legal industry, helping clients navigate the complex landscape of technology laws and regulations. In order to effectively advise and represent their clients as per the details that might be mentioned on their website, it is essential for technology solicitors to stay up-to-date on the. Read more. The post Essential Technology Trends That Can Influence Tech Solicitors first appeared on SaaS Metrics.
BetterCloud
JANUARY 10, 2023
Earlier this month, BetterCloud updated our integration with Miro to provide a customized experience based on the Miro license you’re using. If you have a Miro Enterprise license, you can now install our new Miro Enterprise integration. This new integration gives you access to new workflow actions related to your “Team” in Miro and all of your Miro Boards.
ChurnZero
JANUARY 10, 2023
This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. As a Customer Success recruiting firm, our clients and candidates always ask, “What are you seeing in the workforce today?
Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments
Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.
Entrepreneur - SaaS
JANUARY 10, 2023
The fund raised will fuel global expansion, product enhancement, portfolio growth and talent acquisition.
SmartKarrot
JANUARY 10, 2023
Role: Customer Success Lead Location: Remote, Canada Organization: Testimonial Hero As a Customer Success Lead, you will be developing and managing value-based relationships with the highest-value accounts with a focus on agreement completion and retention. Delivering quarterly Business Reviews to demonstrate value and ROI to the customer base.
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2023
Going from a business of 50 people to 150 people, growing revenue 5x, and completing two major rounds of funding will teach a person a lot about the startup world. Sarah Breathnach, Head of Demand Gen and Field Marketing at Hunters and 3x startup marketing leader, did just that. . In the first SaaStr workshop Wednesday of the new year — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. — Breathnach shares why hiring a marketing team to do lead generation is a big mistake. .
Buffer Resources
JANUARY 10, 2023
At just five years old, Janet Hoang already had a ton of business savvy. After acquiring a surplus of a certain in-demand item, she figured out a way to earn some extra money from her kindergarten classmates. “I don’t know why, but my aunt spoiled me with Hello Kitty stationery,” Janet said. “I would tear apart my Hello Kitty notebooks into five pages and sell them for $5 [to my peers].
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!
IT World
JANUARY 10, 2023
Elon Musk didn't make many friends when he took over Twitter, but some bosses liked that he banned remote work. Too bad he's already backed off that idea. When Twitter was evicted from its Seattle offices because Musk was no longer paying rent, he told Twitter's Washington state workers they now had to work from home.
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