SaaStr
AUGUST 19, 2022
So we’ve talked a lot of the years on SaaStr on how to avoid a mis-hire for a key VP role: We’ve talked here about the 48 Types of VPs of Sales, and making sure you hire the right type. We’ve talked here about how to hire the right VP of Marketing, so you get leads and not just blue pens with your logo on them. We’ve talked here about how to know if you’re hire a real VP of Product or VP of Customer Success.
Sales Hacker
AUGUST 19, 2022
Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. As a sales content manager, it’s strongly recommended to review your content strategy if you’ve been using the same sequences, templates, and snippets that you initially launched with.
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SaaStr
AUGUST 19, 2022
We’ve just added an extra special session for 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 ! Brian Halligan, co-founder and Chairman of HubSpot, and Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO are joining us together to talk about all the things co-founders think and do, but never really talk about! How to go long. How to divide things up. How to win in a competitive market.
FastSpring
AUGUST 19, 2022
According to an OpenView survey, by 2023, 56% of SaaS companies will be using or expecting to test usage-based pricing, which they define as “a pricing model that enables customers to pay for a product according to how much they use it.”. Usage-based pricing (UBP) — or consumption pricing — is based on the amount of usage of a specific metric, such as gigabytes of storage used or the number of API calls made — over a period of time.
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Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 19, 2022
Ben Horowitz discusses the leadership styles of Intel’s Andy Grove and Apple’s Bill Campbell, how Okta won its market with culture, and how to look for and … The post Ben Horowitz on How the Best Leaders Build Culture appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Kellblog
AUGUST 19, 2022
You’ve decided you need to replace one of your executives. Hopefully, the executive already knows things aren’t going great and that you’ve already had several conversations about performance. Hopefully, you’ve also already had several conversations with the board and they either are pushing for, or at least generally agree with, your decision.
User Pilot
AUGUST 19, 2022
For any SaaS owner or product manager , organizing a successful software rollout can be a stressful, exhilarating experience. In this article, we’re going to unpack the mysteries of what it takes to put together a truly successful software rollout plan. We’ll start by exploring key steps in the process, then look at some of the most effective tactics to help you form your own rollout strategy.
Inturact
AUGUST 19, 2022
When you use Instagram for business, it’s no secret that your followers are crucial to your success. After all, if you don’t have enough followers (or you aren’t consistently growing your following), you won’t have anyone to promote your business to, and that’s the point of Instagram for business. The good news is, even if you don’t have hours and hours to spend actively recruiting new followers, you can work with an Instagram growth service to automate your follower growth.
User Pilot
AUGUST 19, 2022
Empathy map vs persona: what are these and what’s the difference between them? Both user personas and empathy maps are techniques used during the UX design process to understand users on a deeper level and create a product that resonates with them. In this article, we’ll outline the differences between a user persona vs empathy map and dive deeper into the why, how, and when to use each one to get the best results.
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.
IT World
AUGUST 19, 2022
Sometimes you find a digital transformation story that neatly explains the benefits and opportunities that can be unlocked when you get it right. I recently spoke with Colin Lees, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Openreach , a leading UK internet infrastructure company, to find out more about why the company decided to follow the enterprise trend toward Apple and equip 30,000 of its staffers with iPhones.
SaaS Metrics
AUGUST 19, 2022
Solana is a popular blockchain used by thousands DeFi and NTF projects due to its fast transaction speed and other interesting features. Let’s take a closer look at Solana. The project’s creators aim to reduce the time required to reach consensus, increase the network’s speed and allow developers to scale their decentralised. Read more. The post What Is Solana Crypto?
Chargebee
AUGUST 19, 2022
With 1.75 million merchants and 457 million buyers, Shopify is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in the world. While many of those merchants use the traditional Shopify platform, there’s an option that provides greater flexibility and customization: headless commerce.
SaaS Metrics
AUGUST 19, 2022
Do you have plans to travel and live abroad for a short period? Maybe you want to visit several countries during your travels, spending a few months out of the country. So, what happens if you own a small business, does that mean your dream of temporarily living abroad is over? Not. Read more. The post How to Temporarily Live Abroad While Operating Your Small Business first appeared on SaaS Metrics.
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.
SaaStr
AUGUST 19, 2022
Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Episode 583 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Before we get there to this week, super interesting time this week. So much talk about doom and gloom. So much talk about downturn. So much talk about inflation.
SmartKarrot
AUGUST 19, 2022
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IT World
AUGUST 19, 2022
Last week, I looked at some technologies that can solve the increasingly pernicious problem of robocalls. They work great for individuals, but these intrusions on our time and privacy present a different problem for people who work in offices. “Of late, scammers have begun transitioning to corporate phone numbers because businesses live and die by their calls,” says Matthew Mizenko, a senior vice president at RoboKiller Enterprise.
SmartKarrot
AUGUST 19, 2022
Customer feedback is imperative to the success of a business. With the increased adoption of social media, it has become increasingly simple for companies to collect customer feedback using tools such as Facebook or Twitter. However, the question remains how to collect customer feedback best and turn it into actionable insights that help businesses gain an edge over their competitors.
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