Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 6, 2024
Companies aren’t bought. They’re sold. Hang around startups & venture capital long enough, & you’ll hear this aphorism. It means it’s much easier to sell a company when there’s plenty of demand. In any given year, there’s an 82% chance the value of startup liquidity will change by more than 77% - both up & down.
SaaStr
JANUARY 16, 2024
There’s so much debate on social media and elsewhere on bootstrapped vs VC. Bootstrapped you maintain control, and the unit economics. But many see it as so much harder. And it’s almost always longer. VC can let you go faster, but it can become an addiction. And the dilution all-in generally ends up being 60%-70% by the time you approach an IPO.
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Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 29, 2024
From the last mile to low Earth orbit, solar fields to the battlefield, artificial intelligence is redefining our barometer for progress. Thus, this year’s American Dynamism 50 — a16z’s annual spotlight on 50 groundbreaking tech companies advancing the national interest — all harness AI to fulfill their missions.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 8, 2024
Successful organizations know that the more interconnected their communication channels are, the better they can perform overall. With UCaaS (Unified Communications as. The post 10 Standard UCaaS Features + 7 Cutting-Edge Capabilities appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:
Buffer Resources
JANUARY 16, 2024
Buffer, as a company, closes the last week of the year every year, and historically, as an engineering team, we’d do a code freeze for the week before we’re closed so nothing broke heading into the holidays. (Pretty smart of us.) This year, we did something different, and it still worked out. We used the last week of the year as a “fixathon” for our whole engineering team.
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Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 28, 2024
The fastest growing software category in the public markets is security. Data follows. Security companies as a group average 29% expected revenue growth in 2024, compared to 23% for Data (or DaaS which stands for data-as-a-service). Fintech & SaaS (horizontal) average ten percentage points fewer expected growth. Anticipation of this growth propels multiples.
SaaStr
JANUARY 8, 2024
Ok some of this post I’d hope would be blindingly obvious. But it isn’t, so I’m going to try to help by being brutally direct: No VC on Planet Earth Wants to Invest in a Startup with Mediocre Growth None. No one. I can’t tell you how many emails a week a month that go something like this: “It’s been a challenging year with 30%-50% growth, but with some funding, we can grow much faster next year!
FastSpring
JANUARY 26, 2024
With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS be
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 16, 2024
Squaretalk offers a budget-friendly, adaptable, and intuitive cloud communication platform to enhance your sales and support teams’ performance and productivity. Its vast. The post Squaretalk Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Buffer Resources
JANUARY 22, 2024
“This year is going to be transformative!” As humans, we tend to say (and believe) this statement about every year. And it’s true – we don’t stay stagnant, and neither do the industries in which we work. But something about 2024 makes me think it stands poised to redefine the social media landscape and the creator economy.
Clouded Judgement
JANUARY 19, 2024
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now The Bar For Going Public There’s a lot of talk recently about “are IPO markets open” or “what scale do I need to get public.” If we look historically at the period from 2015-2020 (ignoring 2021 IPOs) the rough medians were ~$200m ARR (minimum was $100m ARR), 50% YoY growth, and >120% net retention.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 14, 2024
Open source models have become a critical part of the AI landscape. I was curious about the trends in the open source ecosystem, so I analyzed HuggingFace data on the top 300 open source models, both by overall usage & also the top of the trending list. Open source models are governed by open source licenses. Similar to regular open source software, Apache & MIT dominate the licenses by model count. 76% of the top models choose one of these licenses.
SaaStr
JANUARY 5, 2024
So Harry Stebbings and I got back together for the first 20VC of 2024! Will IPO windows open in 2024? Will Stripe and Databricks go public? Did Figma kill the M&A market in 2024? Will LPs allocate to new venture managers? Will many venture firms slowly die? This is the ultimate show with Jason M. Lemkin , Founder SaaStr on what the f happens in 2024 with many predictions… 1.
Speaker: Speakers: Robin Eissler, BoosteHub & Cory Benn, PracticeSuite
Join us for an exclusive session with Robin Eissler from BoosteHub and Cory Benn from PracticeSuite as they reveal their secrets to leveraging payments within their SaaS platforms. Discover how they seamlessly switched from Stripe to Usio and created more stickiness by offering more solutions. Learn how they increased their company valuation by up to 300% and generated over $700,000 in additional revenue.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 25, 2024
Few people love the software they use to get things done. And it’s no surprise why. Whether it’s a slide deck builder, a video editor, or a photo enhancer, today’s work tools were conceived decades ago — and it shows! Even best-in-class products often feel either too inflexible and unsophisticated to do real work, or have steep, inaccessible learning curves (we’re looking at you, Adobe InDesign).
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 11, 2024
IVR surveys are a set of pre-recorded automated questions customers can answer via voice or phone keypads. Aside from the benefits IVR. The post 8 IVR Survey Tips: Get Vital Feedback Instead of Noise appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
JANUARY 23, 2024
OK, I’m going to call it: Threads is here to stay. After a record-breaking start, Threads is fast proving that it was no fly-by-night fad but a force to be reckoned with among the other social media giants. Threads by Instagram now has an estimated 160 million monthly active users and counting. To put that into perspective, that’s a little over a third of X’s (formerly Twitter) monthly active users of 550 million — and X has a good 16 years on Threads.
Totango
JANUARY 3, 2024
As we kick off 2024, it’s time to reflect on the past year and look forward to what the future holds for customer success. It’s been an exciting journey, marked by significant milestones and a ceaseless effort to support our customers in achieving their goals. Now, as we step into a new year, we’re witnessing an evolution of customer success, and there’s a new and improved Totango to help enterprise business leaders deliver business results and drive customer outcomes.
Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms
Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Last Friday’s post about delegation called The Class Missing from Business School, spurred a deluge of great advice from readers. There was a recurring theme when delegating: Identify the time-consuming & repetitive tasks by coloring or labelling your calendar, or calculating at the end of the week or month. Record a video/Loom/Scribe* detailing the process.
SaaStr
JANUARY 18, 2024
So Gartner is cutting back its growth projections for this year a bit. It was previously projecting a 13.8% spend in software spend in 2024 to over $1 Trillion. It’s now cutting that back a bit to 12.7% growth in 2024, basically flat with 2023. But that’s still a lot of growth. To over $1 Trillion in software spend worldwide — for the first time ever.
User Pilot
JANUARY 20, 2024
How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? This is the main question we explore in this article. We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Let’s dive in, shall we? TL;DR Root cause analysis (RCA) is a problem-solving process that focuses on identifying their underlying causes. RCA helps organizations eradicate recurring issues and not just symptoms.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 10, 2024
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a transport layer network protocol that is essential to how computers communicate. It’s commonly used for sending. The post What is TCP and Why Is It Too Reliable for Making Calls? appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Buffer Resources
JANUARY 23, 2024
OK, I’m going to call it: Threads is here to stay. After a record-breaking start, Threads is fast proving that it was no fly-by-night fad but a force to be reckoned with among the other social media giants. Threads by Instagram now has an estimated 160 million monthly active users and counting. To put that into perspective, that’s a little over a third of X’s (formerly Twitter) monthly active users of 550 million — and X has a good 16 years on Threads.
The Moz Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
MozCon is one unforgettable experience that lives and grows with you beyond just the days you spend attending the conference. Read more to find out how to pitch MozCon to your boss.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 11, 2024
The 10x programmer - engineers whose prodigious productivity and perspicacity change the arc of a business. But what about a 10x AE? A salesperson who books 10x more business than their next closest peer. 10x engineers use their knowledge of technology to achieve astounding feats. Why wouldn’t the same idea apply to sales? With AI, we will start to see sales outliers who meaningfully outperform & break quota expectations.
SaaStr
JANUARY 1, 2024
So one thing that’s changed radically in SaaS over the past few years if everyone has realized to truly scale, you need to be multi-product. Sometimes by as early as $20m ARR, sometimes by as late at $200m ARR, or later. But net net, the average public SaaS compay has 35,000 customers. So once you cross 3,500, let alone 10,000 — you’re starting to saturate most B2B markets.
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