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What we're looking for in SaaS in 2017

The Angel VC

As the year is coming to an end I’d like to share a few thoughts on what we’ll be looking for in the SaaS world in 2017. This is not meant to be an exhaustive enumeration but rather a brief outline of a few big themes that I feel particularly strongly about. 1) Viral growth and/or negative churn In the last couple of years I’ve come to the opinion that in order to build a SaaS unicorn you need to have either (a) a highly viral customer acquisition engine or (b) significant negative net churn (th

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We published 139 sales posts in 2016. Here are the 7 you need to read to dominate 2017!

CloseSaaS

"Thanks for the advice. Since implementing it, we have doubled our close rate." — James Kennedy, Founder, ProcurementExpress.com Every day, readers of our blog send us emails like these. They implemented our advice, saw results and share their wins with us.

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The Best SaaS Articles of 2016 From Around the Web

Hitenism

2016 has been a year where knowledge has become freely available for anyone interested in knowing about all things SaaS. That’s because the people who are working in the SaaS industry or investing in these businesses are sharing much more of the details about all aspects of growing and scaling a SaaS business. Here are key trends from the top articles I’ve shared in my newsletter this year: SaaS is more crowded than ever, but you can still grow fast.

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Our favorite books and podcasts of 2016

CloseSaaS

What a year.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.