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.
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.
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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.
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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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 10, 2023
We’re thrilled to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading the seed investment in Seidr AB who are building the next generation of midcore cross-play games. Based in Stockholm, a hotbed of games innovation, Seidr’s founding team are Adam Schaub … The post Investing in Seidr appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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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.
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 […].
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With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
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?
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
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Entrepreneur - SaaS
JANUARY 10, 2023
The fund raised will fuel global expansion, product enhancement, portfolio growth and talent acquisition.
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.
Kalungi
JANUARY 10, 2023
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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.
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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.
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.
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].
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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.
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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