SaaStr

JULY 19, 2023

2023 has been a difficult year for many tech companies. Markets have been all over the place, layoffs occurred, and investors weren’t funding as much as usual. However, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund & Host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast , believes there are reasons to be optimistic for the rest of 2023. In a special workshop, Sam shares advice on how to spot bottlenecks, reallocate the right resources, and grow revenue in 2023.

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Predictable Revenue

JULY 18, 2023

Amir Reiter from CloudTask joins the Predictable Revenue Podcast to shed light on hiring remotely and building a global team. The post The Art of Global Hiring with Amir Reiter appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Teamgate

JULY 19, 2023

In this article, you’ll gain exclusive insights into the strategies used by eight industry-leading marketers to craft email-closing phrases that seal deals. From invoking urgency to personalizing content and implementing scarcity tactics, you’ll learn how the right closing phrase can significantly impact the response rate and conversion success of your emails.

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The Daily Egg

JULY 17, 2023

Sellfy is a basic ecommerce website builder that can be best described as a starter store. While it may lack the robust. The post Sellfy Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2023

For many startups today feel like they are operating under dark skies. It’s supposed to be hard - you’re changing the world. Reflecting on the last three quarters : Startups have parted with colleagues to extend runway in a difficult fundraising market. Some have significant balance sheets & discovered the ostensible product-market fit isn’t as strong as the business may have believed.

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

Over the past year, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) human resources group has been using artificial intelligence (AI) and a chatbot to improve its talent acquisition and retention. And a company executive says the technology has turned things around dramatically. Prior to rolling the AI-based chatbot technology, half of those who’d land on HPE’s career page looking for jobs would leave without ever applying.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 18, 2023

Getting 50 leads in a month, over 1,000 followers in a week, and 100,000 impressions in a month. You’ve probably seen social media marketers boasting these kinds of results on Instagram. But how do they do it? Their strategies can help you grow your online business to unimaginable heights. In this blog, I uncover unique tips from top social media managers who’ve revived defunct accounts and increased their clients’ reach to thousands of followers within a few days of working

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Infinicept

JULY 19, 2023

When: August 11 at 11:00 AM MDT / 1:00 PM EDT Get excited! We have a new live webinar coming, Playing It Safe: Demystifying Underwriting & Risk Management for Business Wins! Join us to discover what it takes for businesses to ace Underwriting and keep Risk Management on point. Learn how to onboard merchants like a pro, insights and strategies for risk management, monitoring, mitigation, and more.

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The Daily Egg

JULY 21, 2023

With tons of options on the market for building a website, it’s hard for any company to stand out. They all have. The post Duda Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Dear SaaStr: Do Late Stage Startups Prefer to Get Acquired or Go Public? It really varies. Especially these days, when the IPO markets are closed. When it was literally an IPO a Day in 2021, it seemed almost easy. And today — it seems so far from easy. It Was an IPO-a-Day in 2021. We’ve Never Seen That Before Today, an acquisition can seem so much easier.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2023

Last Monday, I published a chart that looked like this. It shows the standard deviation in Series A round sizes over time. I needed about 20 minutes using a language called R to create it. Then I tried to replicate it using ChatGPT3’s Code Interpreter feature & I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating it, most of the time waiting for the computer (see video at the end of the post).

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? There was some talk last week on the All-In podcast about software companies. Specifically Chamath said this: “From an OpEx perspective these businesses just suck. They don’t generate any free cash flow.” Quite the claim!

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Agile Payments

JULY 17, 2023

5 Ways to Improve Team Communication in The Workplace There’s no collaboration or teamwork without communication. Even if it didn’t improve efficiency and team cohesion (which it does), with an inefficient communication system, even the simplest task can be made incredibly difficult. Finishing a task without having a clear way to report that you’re done can make someone else miss a deadline waiting for you to finish your part.

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2023

Hypergrowth in today’s highly competitive and budget-constrained SaaS world may be less frequent now, but Vanta, the software tool empowering security companies to achieve compliance and manage risk, has defied the odds. With a multi-billion dollar valuation and a trajectory to double growth annually, Vanta is seizing the spotlight. In this session, CEO and Founder Christina Cacioppo, and GM of EMEA Andrew Foley, reveal the strategies that have propelled Vanta’s remarkable scaling su

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money. Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build succes

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

Apple appears to be widening its lead over rival PC makers with yet another M-series chip iteration for Apple Silicon. Just one look at StatCounter’s current macOS data shows the extent to which the company’s move to develop its own Mac processors is invigorating the platform. Apple’s global macOS share now sits at 21.38% , while in the US it enjoys an even more pronounced share in excess of 31%.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 19, 2023

I’ve dreamed of working for myself forever. My senior project in high school was writing a business plan, I have notebooks full of ideas for new companies, and I even went to school for entrepreneurship. But, instead of jumping into doing my own thing after graduating, I spent years unhappily working for other people. What stopped me from going out on my own?

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Key Habits Of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs? The most successful entrepreneurs I’ve invested in (6+ unicorns, 3 billion+ exits) are very different in many ways. Some extroverts, some introverts. Some engineers by training, others in sales or product originally. Some seem to work 100 hours a week, others seem to work hard but with more balance.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. This article shows you various ways to calculate churn, make sense of the data, and create proactive solutions to retain more customers.

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

If you’re a small business or home user of Microsoft, you likely feel at times like a second-class citizen. I still remember when noted tech consultant Mark Minasi used to joke that Microsoft wrote software for the Fortune 499 — every major Fortune 500 company except Apple — which meant that for many years consumer and home users were just along for the ride with Microsoft’s big-enterprise goals.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 17, 2023

Since adding short-form video through Shorts in 2021, YouTube has opened up to more creators. And by going a step further to add Shorts creators to the YouTube Partner program, the possibilities for monetization on the platform have increased tenfold. 💡 Schedule your YouTube Shorts in Buffer → YouTubers can monetize their content in several ways, from brand sponsorships to selling merchandise.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2023

Dear SaaStr:What are some objections that salespeople can’t overcome? A few objections reps think they can overcome … that they can’t: We literally do not need this product now. There’s the classic rule that only about 10% of prospects are truly in-market at any given time, and that’s about right in my experience. Too many reps do too many lame cadences and break things.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Wondering how to reduce customer churn rate for your business? You’ve opened the right link! In this article, we review different ways to identify potential churn and deal with it. Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet. But you can turn all that around with the right strategies.

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IT World

JULY 18, 2023

Data encryption is threatened by government forces who haven’t yet recognized that without personal security, you cannot have enterprise security. Because attackers will exploit any available weakness to undermine protection — and if your people or your customers aren't secure, neither is your business. Get with the data Attackers will always go where the money is.

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Sparktoro

JULY 20, 2023

If you work in marketing, there’s a good chance your leadership has asked you about Threads. If you work in social media marketing, then leadership has almost certainly asked for your early reaction to Meta’s Twitter clone. Should we make an account? Should we cross-post from our top-performing social media channel? What’s our content strategy? Whew.

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As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2023

Datadog is at $2 Billion in ARR and let's pause for a moment for our jaws to drop: – It's still growing 33% – It's still growing new customers 29% – It still has 130%+ NRR and 90%+ GRR – It's cash-flow positive with 19% operating margins That's why it's worth 18x ARR — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) July 17, 2023 So Datadog is just the SaaS and Cloud leader that just … has never stopped.

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User Pilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? This is the main question we discuss in this article, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it!

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IT World

JULY 18, 2023

At its annual Inspire event for resellers Tuesday, Microsoft offered new details on how it is rolling out generative AI capabilities across its product line, announcing that Copilot will be available to customers for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers. Copilot is a generative AI assistant that sits across the company’s suite of business productivity and collaboration apps and can automate tasks and create content — including analyzin

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