SaaStr
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
These are the Best of Times for venture capital. 500+ new seed funds, and 1000+ unicorns and decacorns. And as part of this, more and more big corporations are adding and expanding their venture arms. For the most part, this is a great thing. More options are almost always better for founders. Let me share a quick list of Pros, Cons, and Not Big Deals.
The Daily Egg
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Business formation services handle the entire business creation process, saving you money and cutting down on stress. We spent 10 days reviewing. The post Best Business Formation Services Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Breaking down sales strategies that founders and entrepreneurs need to adopt to amplify revenue, specially in startups. The post Founder-Led Sales Strategies For Startups appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The 100x ARR multiple might be the fundraising meme of 2021. Before, most investors used forward ARR multiples to value companies, but recently, the 100x multiple seems to be a benchmark for SaaS companies raising rounds. Where did this figure originate? How does it compare to the public markets' valuation of companies? Let’s look at the data.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Across the US, people are quitting their jobs in record numbers. . This year, it’s estimated that approximately one in four people have quit their jobs , and those positions are remaining open for much longer than expected. Countless theories have tried to explain the “Great Resignation” we’re experiencing, but none have managed to pinpoint an exact cause.
SaaS Brief brings together the best content for SaaS professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 20, 2021
Q: What qualities do great salespeople have? A few: They really listen. Mediocre sales reps just start diving into their script, and try not to deviate from it. Great salespeople learn their prospects’ needs, issues and pain. They can adjust the pitch and story to suit the prospec t. Every prospect is a bit different. The best reps tailor the pitch, the demo, the functionality shares, the case studies, etc. to suit the needs of the prospect.
The Daily Egg
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Best Online Incorporation Services Compared We investigated the best online incorporation services available to create a list of our top five. The. The post Best Online Incorporation Services Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Cold calling scripts approved by the most successful and reputable B2B sales leaders and practitioners in the sales development industry. The post The 4 Cold Call Scripts That Actually Book Meetings appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. If a business has to manage physical assets with drivers, there’s a Samsara product for it. Incidentally, the name Samsara is the cycle of life and death in Sanskrit.
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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.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains.
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
What is (and isn’t) a DAO? Why do DAOs matter? How do DAOs fit into web3, crypto, the creator economy, future of work, and many other areas? Inspired by our NFT Canon earlier this year (and original Crypto Canon), we’ve culled the below list of resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get. Read More. The post DAOs, A Canon appeared first on Future.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Want to start your own SaaS company? Do it. It is hard, harder than you can imagine. But if you do it right, and for real — it can last 30+ years. SaaS: Maybe Plan for 30+ Years as a Founder. If you haven’t done it before, though, here’s my list of the top 9 things founders get wrong before they start: It almost always takes at least 24 months to get really off the ground from Day 1.
The Daily Egg
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Choosing the right location to form your LLC is a crucial decision. This in-depth guide will help you determine the right state. The post The Complete Guide to The Best States to Form an LLC appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
If you’re not telling a compelling story, then you’re losing your audience before you’ve even started. Numbers and other data will make your audience believe but stories will make them engaged listeners. Learn how to create the perfect sales pitch deck! The post How To Create The Perfect Pitch Deck appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
Imagine an AE closes two contracts for $100k ARR. The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract A requires annual prepayment - all the cash will be paid tomorrow. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. Is the payback period for each contract the same?
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
When you’ve launched your product, raised a round or two, and scaled the business beyond the early days, inevitably things start to slow down. You used to speak in hours and days, and now it’s months and quarters. You used to obsess about innovation and being at the front of the market, and now you’re feeling bogged down shipping table-stakes features.
Unbounce
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
If you’re a time-strapped marketer, you probably often ask yourself: “Should I spend more time perfecting the written copy or tweaking the visual design of my landing page?” Designing a landing page can be daunting. If it’s not your area of expertise, making your landing page look the part becomes time-consuming and frustrating—even expensive, particularly if you need a designer to do the heavy lifting for you.
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Datadog IPO’d at $330m ARR, and when we last caught up with them they were already at $700m ARR — and it has done nothing but accelerate since then. Closing out with a $270m Q3’21 (!) and on to a $1.2B+ run-rate today, Datadog is accelerating at over $1B ARR. To 75% growth. Goodness. We just haven’t seen the type of acceleration at scale we’re seeing in SaaS leaders before. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.
The Daily Egg
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Starting a business involves lots of paperwork and can be overwhelming, but ZenBusiness makes the process easier and smoother. ZenBusiness can help. The post ZenBusiness Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Learn the key aspects of outbound sales lead generation to help you drive revenue growth in the following article. The post Outbound Sales 101: Lead Generation For High-Level Executives appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
When investing in a crypto startup that will issue a token, an investor considers two prices - the price of the equity and the price of the token. There’s a rule of thumb used today that states the token should be worth 3-5x the equity. A founder informed me the rationale is that a share in a company has a lien on the future dividend streams, but a token has a lien on profit share of the GDP around an economy and that economies tend to be 3-5x larger.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
As marketers, our job is to capitalize on what’s popular in the “here and now.” One great way to figure out what is popular is with Google Trends. This tool identifies current and existing trends in search marketing. You can then take what you’ve learned and apply it to any (and all) of your marketing strategies. This article will help you understand how to use Google Trends and the specific steps you can take to maximize your efforts.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
The other day Brendon Cassidy, the first head of sales at LinkedIn and the first VP of Sales at $10B Talkdesk, Adobe Sign / EchoSign, and more — and now co-CEO of Cosell — and I caught on what’s changing in the Sales Playbook for 2022. It’s a great deep dive you can watch here. My Top 10 Learnings below: The classic high volume cadence-based outbound playbook is declining in effectiveness — but you still need to run it.
The Daily Egg
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Forming a legal entity for your business is an important decision. Many entrepreneurs and business partners choose to form a corporation because. The post 6 Easy Steps to Form a Corporation appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Sangram Vajre, bestselling author and co-founder of Terminus, highlights the telltale signs that your GTM process is broken and how to fix it. The post How To Figure Out If Your GTM Process Is Broken appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
This is the second installment of a two-part series on reputation systems in web3. Read part one here. Web3 is based on the premise that each internet user will have a unique internet identifier, like an email address, that can be natively linked to any piece of software and stored on a blockchain. As part. Read More. The post With Decentralized Identity, Your Reputation Travels With You Across Cyberspace appeared first on Future.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with thei
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