SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As this gets published, I’ve just about finished giving my talks at 2022 SaaStr Annual. And thank you so much to everyone that came, or watched the streaming. It really means a lot. And one of my themes was that while the markets are down, I mean way down — the best in SaaS are still growing at jaw-dropping rates. I put together this slide: No doubt, some categories are still recovering from a Covid Hangover.

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The Daily Egg

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Email marketing still has one of the highest ROI of any marketing type, which means choosing the right email marketing service is. The post ActiveCampaign Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dear SaaStr: What Are the 5 Things Every Founder Should Know In the Early Days? My list: Slow it down if you don’t have a great co-founder. Another idea will come, but it’s almost impossible to thrive without an amazing co-founder. More here. You always need about 25% more than your raise. So always raise 25% more than you think you need, even in an angel round.

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The Daily Egg

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

SmartBiz is a top lender for businesses that qualify for SBA-backed loans but want to avoid the lengthy and complicated application process. The post SmartBiz Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. That includes: A global focus. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Professional moderation. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds.

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Predictable Revenue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Jeff Koser joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how B2B sales organizations can not only survive an economic downturn but use it to their advantage. The post How To Sell Better In An Economic Downturn appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s hard enough to guide a company through a period of heavy inflation or during a recession. But it becomes much more difficult when they’re occurring at the same time. This is stagflation — and economists are predicting a period of stagflation to last into 2024. You may already be thinking about ways to reduce your expenses and shift your overall growth strategy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While Elon Musk is working on taking humans to Mars, the way people and businesses move money internationally has not changed in decades. Whereas we can now tap our credit cards to pay for domestic goods and services, making a … The post It’s All About the Money (Movement): Simplifying Cross-Border Payments appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When a financial slowdown approaches, the smartest businesses look for areas where their investment has the best leverage. Today, the greatest opportunity for efficient growth lies with Customer Success (CS) teams—the purveyors of customer loyalty. Find out how Customer Success builds financial fortitude and resilience in the latest Punk CX podcast, featuring ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent ; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on the … The post The New Learning Economy: It’s Time To Build in Education appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

What is a beta testing feedback form template? How can you customize it to gather valuable feedback from users? Beta testing is one of the most effective ways to gather feedback on a product , but getting useful feedback and handling beta testers is not always as easy as it sounds. This article outlines some best practices for feedback forms for your beta tests and shares some examples to inspire you.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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Entrepreneur - SaaS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The fresh capital will enable DINGG to scale up sales and marketing to acquire new customers and will also accelerate the delivery of new automation capabilities, and drive expansion into the beauty and wellness sector.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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Entrepreneur - SaaS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Got leads? SaaS competition is growing, making it hard to land new customers. Learn how to get over your dry spell and flood your sales pipeline with more prospects.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we write in our piece It’s All About The Money (Movement), moving money internationally is an opaque, fee-intensive process that requires two things: actually “moving” the money and leveraging onboarding and compliance workflow software. What’s often misunderstood about this … The post Investing in Payall appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, my colleagues have discussed in depth the need for premium ransomware protection. This isn't without reason: Ransomware caused losses up to US $20 billion for global governments and enterprises in 2021, 57 times that in 2015; One business or device is attacked by ransomware every 11 seconds globally, costing an average of US$1.85 million in ransom; 80% of victims who pay a ransom are targeted a second time.

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Infinicept

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

LIVE webinar series starting Oct. 7, 2022. We’ve got a four-part webinar education series designed to help you get the facts about the payments industry, from learning about the different types of payment solutions, the pros and cons of each, to choosing the right solution for you. No matter where you are in your journey, we’ll be your Payments Sherpa to help guide you through every turn.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Geolocation was once a glorious way to know who your company is dealing with (and sometimes what they are doing). Then VPNs started to undermine that. And now, things have gotten so bad that the Apple App Store and Google Play both offer apps that unashamedly declare they can spoof locations — and neither mobile OS vendor does anything to stop it. Why?

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Infinicept

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

[link] Our guest today is Menda Sims, Chief Payments Officer at Stax. We are going to chat about two main topics today. The first: “data is the new oil,” and the second: “ISVs are payments companies, they just don’t know it yet.” Read the full transcript below. Episode 2: Stax | Data is the New Oil. Source.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The EU General Court's decision Wednesday to largely uphold the ruling of the European Commission that fined Google €4 billion (US$3.9 billion) for antitrust violations could have wide-ranging implications for other tech companies. The case dates back to 2018, when the EU’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, issued a ruling that Google used its Android mobile operating system to undermine competitors.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

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SaaS Metrics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve switched to iOS 16 , you’ve probably already realized Apple has tweaked the system. Notifications now appear at the bottom of the display and there are other changes that must be learned. We all use them, we all need them. With the recent introduction of iOS 16 and the extent to which mobile pros depend on notifications — and the arrival today of the new iPhone 14 line-up — this is a ood time to look at how Apple has changed the system.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Rapid advancements in technology have resulted in massive changes in current organizational business processes, hierarchies, and systems. However, satisfied customers are still the most crucial asset for any modern business. Therefore, businesses must prioritize customer success initiatives to facilitate short-term and long-term success. A recent study conducted by Forrester has found that approximately 72% of businesses have stated that improving their customer success rates is their highest pr

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Adobe announced today that it would pay $20 billion in cash and stock to acquire Figma, a web-based collaborative design platform. Figma will be folded into the larger Adobe family of products, and will continue to operate independently until the deal closes. The $20 billion figure is a substantial step up in valuation for Figma, which was valued at $10 billion in its last funding round in 2021.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After finding success in their home country, many SaaS founders begin to think globally, considering expansion into the international markets. However, global growth is challenging, and it takes the right strategy, preparation, and business model to achieve it. In an eye-opening session at SaaStr Europa 2022, Harry Briggs (Managing Partner at OMERS Ventures) shares advice for determining whether expansion is right for your business and how to execute it effectively. .

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

With 63 updates affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio and.NET platforms — and reports of three publicly exploited vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-37969 , CVE-2022-34713 , CVE-2021-40444 ) — this month's Patch Tuesday release gets a "Patch Now" priority. Key testing areas include printing, Microsoft Word, and in general application un-installations.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Workday this week announced an expansion to its Skills Cloud service , which uses existing employee information culled from third-party systems to discover talents that can be put to use within an organization. Introduced in 2018, Skills Cloud comes natively with Workday’s Human Capital Management platform , machine learning software that helps client companies build talent management programs.

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