Sat.Sep 06, 2014 - Fri.Sep 12, 2014

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

What will the world look like when cloud compute and storage are free? Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. The chart above shows the logarithmic decline of the cost of a transistor cycle by 11 orders of magnitude (11 decimal places) over the past 40 years. AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years.

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How NOT to be frustrated by failure: Don't celebrate your losses

CloseSaaS

Here’s a little happiness hack for entrepreneurs: don’t celebrate your failures. You’ve probably already heard you should celebrate your successes, to make sure you and your team cherish and enjoy your victories.

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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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A Collection of Uncommon Points of View on Startups

Tom Tunguz

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. A student of the class, Blake Masters, copied all the class notes and I read every post, like thousands of other visitors to the site. In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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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The Optimal Price to Maximize Sales Efficiency for a SaaS Startup

Tom Tunguz

Is there an optimal price for a product to maximize a SaaS startup’s sales efficiency ? As I’ve been analyzing the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies, most recently of HubSpot and Zendesk , I’ve been asking myself that question. Do million-dollar enterprise price points and field sales people create more efficient sales organizations than content-marketing-driven SMB startups?

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Sales objection: "It's not a priority right now"

CloseSaaS

You've had a great sales conversation with a prospect, pitched your product, asked for the close—and your prospective buyer tells you: "This sounds all really good, but it's just not a priority for us right now." How do you respond to that? What can you do to make a sale happen?

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Come See Us At SalesConf 2014

CloseSaaS

Jot down September 12, 2014 in your calendar if you're in San Francisco, because that's when SalesConf will be taking place. Nick O'Neill put together an spectacular startup sales speaker lineup, which includes, among others, Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin, Hiten Shah, Lincoln Murphy.

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Introducing Explorer: customizable reporting graphs

CloseSaaS

You've been asking for more advanced ways to report on your sales data inside Close – summary information about your leads, opportunities, calls, emails, etc.

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What Can Legit Startups Learn From Shady MLM Businesses?

CloseSaaS

Think of Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) what you want - there's one thing we founders and sales reps can learn from these people.

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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Week of bug fixes

CloseSaaS

We spent this week looking through a backlog of bugs and fixing as many of them as possible. Here's the update.

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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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How to use FAQs in SaaS Contract Negotiations?

Aber Law Firm

I have found that FAQs are not used enough by SaaS companies as part of their selling and SaaS contract negotiation process. Here is the frame of reference, at least from my perspective: you are selling something that is intangible (aka cannot touch or feel) and your customer does not exactly know what they are getting. They may know how much it costs, but how it works and what exactly they get are somewhat elusive.

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Call Forwarding UI

CloseSaaS

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