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5 Interesting Learnings from Fastly. As It Gets Ready to IPO.

SaaStr

Fastly isn’t quite as well known as the others in this 5 Interesting Learnings Series — Zoom, Slack, PagerDuty, etc. But it has some very interesting learnings for founders. Especially on how bigger deal sizes can work with free, freemium, self-service, etc. It’s also a great one to learn from, at $200m+ ARR ($45.5m GAAP revenue in Q1 ’19) because it’s in a space filled with strong competitors. 5+ learnings for founders: Developers control a lot of spend today.

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How SaaS Companies Can Accelerate Their Growth With In-Person Events

OpenView Labs

In the world of B2B SaaS where digital marketing takes precedence and automation touches everything we do, in-person events are often an afterthought — but in-person events are a critical component of any successful growth strategy. In fact, the majority of B2B marketers have ranked in-person events as their top-performing demand generation tactic. The consensus is in: it’s time to put the human element back into SaaS marketing.

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We thought we were selling to the guy next to you. But boy, were we wrong.

Chargebee

How we zeroed in on Chargebee's true north as a product, through customer calls, subscription workflows, and value propositioning.

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A Beginner’s Guide to A/B Testing with Crazy Egg

The Daily Egg

We are all united in a common struggle: designing products, apps, and websites that engage, entice, and delight our customers. So how do you know for sure that you are actually providing what they’re looking for? You research, experiment, and launch A/B tests. A/B testing can be a lightweight, sustainable, and time-saving activity that helps […] The post A Beginner’s Guide to A/B Testing with Crazy Egg appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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The Fundraising Environment in 2019 - Three Major Shifts

Tom Tunguz

In a recent meeting, a founder asked me what I thought of the fundraising environment. My answer was: it’s become incredibly sophisticated along three dimensions: diversity of product offering, pricing sophistication, and efficiency of investment processes. If you read eBoys or Done Deals or Creative Capital, you’ll get a sense of the early days of the venture industry.

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The art of the customer follow-up and delightful customer service

Intercom, Inc.

Part of the ritual of eating a meal in a good restaurant is the waiter asking if you’re enjoying your food and if there is anything else they can get for you. Now, you might not think much about that particular restaurant practice – after all, it’s just a simple customer follow-up question shortly after your food has arrived. However, there are a few lessons in this simple example of customer service that are valuable for anyone who works in customer support.

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These 18 Tools Will Supercharge Your Digital Agency Software Stack

The Daily Egg

As an agency, priority #1 has to be your clients. After all, your job is to solve problems for your clients, answer some pain they have, and lower their anxiety. Any tools you pick to build your digital agency have to first and foremost simplify your clients’ lives.But priority #2 is making money! Because you’re […] The post These 18 Tools Will Supercharge Your Digital Agency Software Stack appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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How to take advantage of sales automation tools while maintaining a human touch

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Travis Henry, Director of Inside Sales Operations at renowned Bay Area sales consultancy SalesSource. The post How to take advantage of sales automation tools while maintaining a human touch appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Lessons Learned 1 Year In From the SaaStr.com Redesign: Overall, Not a Failure. But Not a Success.

SaaStr

12 months ago, SaaStr.com underwent its second big redesign in its history: The goals weren’t quite agreed at the time — we didn’t have true alignment here, a missed opportunity — but the overall goal was to promote “other” products more , from SaaStrPro.com (our product to train your team for you — check it out !

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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A content-first approach to product onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Knowing your user’s story is central to a great onboarding experience – but how do you actually tell that story ? At some point you need to write the content of your onboarding: words, sentences, value props, the works. Ultimately, it’s the content that helps your users achieve their goals. That’s a lot of heavy lifting for just a few bits of text. As it turns out, writing your onboarding is a real job, and it’s often harder than you might think.

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I Wanted to Convert on Your Landing Page, But I Couldn’t. Here’s Why.

Unbounce

Hey there , marketer. Let me introduce myself. I’m your target market. I’m actively looking for what you offer. I just Googled your solution, clicked your ad, and I’m on your landing page. Right now, I’m somewhere between interested in and desperate for what you’re selling. I’m ready to say “yes” to a call to action, but… I’m not going to say yes to yours.

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Sales Operations: The Guide They Never Gave You

InsightSquared

“What was your first job?”. It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Some of the answers include: Elementary school teacher. SDR. Recruiter. Pharmacy Tech. Insurance sales rep. Cosmetics consultant. Account Manager. Financial analyst. Why the wide range? Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses.

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Lessons from Gorgias: How to Close your First 1000 Customers Based Solely on Data (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks you through how to close your first 1000 customers based solely on data. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Romain Lapeyre – CEO @ Gorgias.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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The Agile Arrow – a visual framework for managing complex sales deals

Intercom, Inc.

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. There are many decision makers, feature requests and critical dependencies that you have to navigate. Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. You need a structured way to see and track exactly what’s required to progress the deal forward, while also staying flexible enough to adapt to changing deal dynamics.

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Automation: The Secret to Personalized Customer Service

Groove HQ

The bots are coming. Yes, they’re coming from the customer service department as well. Does that mean we’re going to lose all human agents who support customers? No. But with bots becoming more intelligent and better able to respond to customer requests, it is certain that big companies will have to resort to them in […]. The post Automation: The Secret to Personalized Customer Service appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics

Andreessen Horowitz

Our work is changing — what we do, and how we do it. How are automation and digitization changing decision-making. and what kind of new tools does that mean we will need?

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest. Using magic (standard deviation) we came up with the best of the best of our sessions as voted by you, our SaaStr community.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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5 Ways Online Video Content Can Boost Your Revenue

Nimble - Sales

It doesn’t matter what type of business you’re running; boosting your revenue likely holds a permanent position right at the top of your list of priorities. According to one recent study conducted by Aberdeen, marketers who use video tend to see revenue growth at rates of about 49% higher than those who are still relying […]. The post 5 Ways Online Video Content Can Boost Your Revenue appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Why You Should Make The Switch From A Perpetual License To Subscription

FastSpring

It wasn’t long ago that buying a new piece of software involved a trip to your local brick and mortar software retailer. You’d park your car, mosey on into the store, and then go through the process of scouring the shelves for the pristine cardboard box that housed a physical copy of your application. And that was it. The application you got out of the box was the final product.

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5 Reasons Your SaaS Company Should Trust Incredo to Create a High-impact Inbound Marketing Strategy

Incredo

Inbound marketing is a strategy most SaaS companies have heard of by now, if they are not already using the world’s most revolutionary digital marketing strategy. At Incredo, it is our belief that if a SaaS company is reliant upon outbound in place of/more than inbound, they are missing out on a tremendous number of customer conversions. Essentially, they are wasting their money on outbound.

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5 ways to get the most out of SaaStr Europa

SaaStr

Bags packed, tickets booked – what’s next? Here is your guide to everything you should know before you get to Paris next month! We have a few tips for making sure you take advantage of everything you can see and do at SaaStr Europa. Take a look! 1.Register for your sessions. Session registration is open! Having trouble figuring out how to reserve your seat?

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Kik and the SEC: What’s Going On and What Does It Mean for Crypto?

Andreessen Horowitz

Kik, the Tencent-backed messaging app, raised $150 million in August 2017 in an initial coin offering (ICO).

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Why Sales Development Doesn’t Have a Seat at the Table (Yet)

Sales Hacker

Have you noticed the disconnect between how executives talk about Sales Development and how they treat Sales Development leaders? Companies are beginning to understand the vital role SDRs play in building pipeline , but Sales Development leaders rarely have a seat at the proverbial table. The Reason? Sales Development can’t measure their outbound prospecting funnel in a meaningful way.

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The Most Important Customer Success KPIs You Should Be Tracking

Totango

Customer success initiatives are critical in ensuring your product gives customers the positive outcomes they’re looking for. But how can you tell if your customer success team’s hard work is paying off? One way is to use key performance indicators (KPIs) to make an abstract concept, like customer success, quantifiable. There are many different KPIs, and each evaluates progress toward goal completion from a different angle.

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If smaller VC funds outperform large VC funds, is Softbank’s Vision Fund destined to fail?

SaaStr

The data in everything in venture is … mixed. Yes, the crazy outperformers in venture are smaller funds, from Lowercase Capital to Benchmark, etc. But the goal overall is to significantly outperform the market (+50% higher) to account for risk, while rewarding those who can afford highly illiquid investments (universities, pensions, etc). Very large funds will struggle to produce the insane 8x-10x+ returns of a super successful tiny find with a decacorn or two in it.

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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Stop Doing What Customers Hate and Discover What They Love

Nimble - Sales

In this webinar, Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara discusses concepts from Mark Schaefer’s latest book, Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins. Mark is a globally recognized blogger, author, speaker, and educator with one of the top marketing blogs in the world. He is the Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, specializing in marketing strategy and […].

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The Trouble With Too Many WordPress Plugins

FastSpring

Many companies rely on WordPress to manage their websites because it’s easy to use, flexible, and secure. One of its most attractive features is the plugin architecture, which allows users to customize the features and functionality of their site by installing third-party plugins, usually with just a few clicks. WordPress plugins are a simple way to implement anything from search engine optimization to an interactive form.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture

Totango

Culture is defined by actions. It is a tangible presence customers can see and feel in the way you engage them, respond to them, and present the product. Creating the right culture within your enterprise is, therefore, a matter of giving employees the right customer success tools and establishing best practices for using them. In today’s digitized, subscription-based environment, these best practices are based on finding out all you can about your customers and then using that data to create a c