Thu.Nov 29, 2018

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Getting Software as a Service (SaaS) Accounting and Financial Operations Right from the Start

SaaSOptics

By 2020, more than 80 percent of software providers will change their business models from “traditional” perpetual license and maintenance to subscription-based models. A perpetual model requires customers to pay a fee upfront to purchase a license for the system or application, whereas a SaaS model requires a monthly subscription fee. While some providers, such as Dropbox, were created “as a service,” thousands of other software vendors that started out with traditional licensing models are rea

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How to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in Your Sales Hiring Process

Sales Hacker

Let’s set a scene. Company raises money and is now ready to “scale the sales team.” Their current seller has done a great job, so the natural inclination is to assume that we want to replicate that person and sales will continue to grow, right? “John is our best AE– I need 10 more Johns!”. Fast forward 1 year later: “Oh no, my entire sales team looks the exact same…”.

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Top Ecommerce Trends in Europe That You Need To Be Aware Of

FastSpring

Thinking about taking your business global? Unsure about which market to break into next? Or maybe you already have your sights on the European Market but you’re still “on the border” about fully committing resources? Today we’re finally putting all your questions to rest by covering Europe’s ecommerce trends so you can get a holistic view of the European ecommerce market.

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Successful Seven-figure Funding Round for Provider of SaaS Customer Loyalty Platform

The SaaS Garage

Loyalty Prime Intensifies Its International Growth. By Loyalty Prime , December 29th, 2018. . The Loyalty Prime Group, a leading provider of SaaS-based loyalty platforms, has completed another seven-figure funding round. The investors are Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft ( BayBG ), which is a new investor in the company, and the existing consortium of investors – including Senovo , UVC Partners and business angel Alexander Bruehl ( SaaSgarage.com ) – that has been in place since

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

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.

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Growing a platform: Introducing API versioning in Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We believe that shipping is our company’s heartbeat and that we should ship frequently with small incremental changes. This principle enables us to get feedback and iterate quickly. However, until recently we couldn’t apply the same philosophy to our APIs. We weren’t able to fix bugs, improve the functionality of our APIs or even keep up with our constantly growing products.