Sage Intacct
JUNE 7, 2022
The SaaS industry and its various spin-off sectors have introduced a dizzying number of innovations into the business arena. One of the most important of these is pricing flexibility.
SaaStr
JUNE 17, 2022
So no source of funding data is perfect. Essentially every source lags, because deals are often reported far after they close. Most unicorn press releases you see were closed months ago. But AngelList’s data is probably as up-to-date as you can get. The data is more recent than most sources, since it is self-reported by the investors in the round and on the AngelList platform.
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 22, 2022
For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Web2 marketing employs the cookie as the primary identifier of a person, not a wallet. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. The behavioral patterns in web3 differ driven by anonymity, communication patterns on discord and telegram, and the consequences of using tokens as user acquisition, as governance
The Daily Egg
JUNE 17, 2022
Parallels Access might not be our top pick for the best stand-alone remote support software. You can certainly get more robust software. The post Parallels Desktop Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Predictable Revenue
JUNE 20, 2022
Michael Zipursky joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to successfully run a remote business and tips for working remotely. The post How to Successfully Run a Remote Business appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Sage Intacct
JUNE 14, 2022
If you’re a SaaS finance leader, your churn rate (the number of subscription cancellations you receive over a given period) is one of your most valuable performance SaaS metrics to track and improve.
SaaStr
JUNE 19, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Was The Best Advice You Ever Got From an Angel Investor. The best advice I ever got from one of my angel investors: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. I went to meet with one of my angels and mentors when things were probably toughest at my last start-up. My co-founder had walked out the door. We had about 4 months left of cash. I was out of ideas.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 17, 2022
The round extension is the most popular fundraising round today. You won’t find statistics detailing their rise in PitchBook or Crunchbase, but “reopening the last round” or “raising a round extension” precede pitches Startupland today. How does an extension impact a company’s cap table on average? Round dilution from VC dollars has been declining for the past decade.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 2, 2022
QuickBooks Time is a solid time-tracking tool. It provides remote workers with numerous ways to clock in and offers geo-tracking so employers. The post QuickBooks Time Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Predictable Revenue
JUNE 20, 2022
The team at Predictable Revenue has rounded up a list of the top 9 podcasts for sales leaders, so you can listen and learn from industry experts on the go. The post Round-Up: Top 9 Podcasts for Sales Leaders appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 30, 2022
?. For years, people have been abusing surveys. From dull subject lines to the wrong questions, from sending out questionnaires after the fact to sending them way too often, there is a lot that organizations have gotten wrong about how to design a survey. Today’s guest is fighting to preserve the value of surveys in the face of all this misuse. Caroline Jarrett became interested in forms around 30 years ago while delivering optical character recognition systems to the UK Inland Revenue, which in
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 1, 2022
There’s long been chatter about the analogies between financial services and healthcare. Both are massive, regulated markets with technological adoption challenges, legacy oligopolies, and tons of customer pain – and even fear! Both exhibit opportunities at the data and infrastructure … The post Payvidors, Unbundled: Opportunities in Healthcare Fintech appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2022
Following Snowflake’s blow out quarter announcing big acceleration of growth at the end of the quarter, Salesforce has now announced a record quarter as well, growing a stunning 24% at a now $30 Billion in ARR. In fact, that’s acceleration. At $24B in ARR, Salesforce was growing 20% year-over-year. “We’re just not seeing material impact on the broader economic world that all of you are in,” Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder and co-CEO, said on a conference call with analysts.
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 19, 2022
OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 3, 2022
In any discussion about video conferencing software, it’s worth noting that digital conference calling and screen sharing had become quite popular for. The post Zoom Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
JUNE 14, 2022
Simon Severino joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to increase your return on luck as a business leader. The post How to Increase Your Return On Luck as a Business Leader appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 8, 2022
As more and more business moves online, and customer expectations have risen accordingly, the demands on support teams have soared – it often feels like teams now need superhuman speed just to keep up. Increased volume, higher expectations, and team burnout are just a few of the issues businesses are facing. Ultimately, customer support reps are in need of tools that help them do their jobs more efficiently, effectively, and enjoyably.
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Unbounce
JUNE 28, 2022
More people are shopping online than ever before. Online sales are expected to make up 22.3% of retail sales overall by 2023. A big part of ecommerce is using social media to engage audiences and build an authentic brand. But now, social media can also be used as an ecommerce market of its own: social commerce. If you’re a chronic social media scroller, you’ve probably seen typical social media ads that include an embedded link that takes you to the product page.
SaaStr
JUNE 27, 2022
So two big PE $10B deals happened in SaaS this week, one agreed, the other closed. And the difference are so stark, they highlight all the changes in SaaS in just a few months: Zendesk agreed to be acquired a PE syndicate for $10.2 Billion , going private. Anaplan’s deal to be acquired by PE firm Thoma Bravo for $10.4 Billion closed. Not only were the prices basically identical, but so were a few other facts: Both had a nice, roughly similar premium price (usually necessary to get a deal done t
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 26, 2022
Coinbase and Uniswap are two of the leading crypto exchanges. The market values COIN, Coinbase’s stock, and UNI, Uniswap’s token at about 3x trailing 12-month revenues. But should they be trading at similar multiples? As the market has corrected, so have the trailing 12-month revenues (TTM)/Market Cap multiples. They move in synchrony with an R^2 of 0.79.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 22, 2022
Microsoft Office has been a popular player in office suite software since the beginning. However, now there are so many other solutions. The post Microsoft Office Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
IT World
JUNE 1, 2022
When you choose a productivity platform like Microsoft 365/Office 365 or Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), the main focus is on the platform’s functionality: Does it do the job you need?
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 2, 2022
From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. It’s all about having the right mindset, taking ownership of your abilities, and doing what’s in your power to drive positive experiences for customers. And for Elizabeth Dixon , even the smallest action can cause ripples that turn customers into loyal advocates.
Unbounce
JUNE 21, 2022
Sometimes you choose a hobby, sometimes a passion chooses you. And that’s exactly what happened when Peter Letts discovered scuba diving. He first dipped his toes as a nervous diver in 1992, but soon took to the deep end and became addicted to the sport. Almost 10 years later, he left a successful corporate career to turn his passion for the oceans into a business.
SaaStr
JUNE 2, 2022
A lot of folks are talking about how things were in ’08-’09 and even ’00-’01 these days. I don’t think today is anything like those times. The amount of folks buying SaaS software is a force like we’ve never seen before, and even with some stock market drama, many top SaaS companies still trade at $4B, $10B, $20B or more just a decade after being founded.
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 20, 2022
When Aileen Lee published “Welcome to the Unicorn Club” - the article that coined the word unicorn for a $1b startup - the average public SaaS company commanded a market cap of $1.5b. I remember thinking a $1b M&A or IPO was so rare an investor might hope to achieve it once or twice in a career. Fewer than 15 SaaS companies traded on public exchanges then.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 15, 2022
A connected team is at the core of any growing business. With BlueJeans and Zoom provide some of the best conference call. The post Bluejeans Vs. Zoom appeared first on The Daily Egg.
IT World
JUNE 2, 2022
Seven years ago, Microsoft surprised the world — and its hardware partners — by releasing its first laptop: The Surface Book. It was a flop. But, unlike some Microsoft hardware experiments I could mention — the Surface tablet, Surface RT , and the infamous Kin phone — Microsoft kept hacking away at the Surface Book. Today, its descendants such as the Surface Laptop Studio are darn good laptops.
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