Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. How many of them do you agree with? The tax holiday for repatriation creates one of the most active M&A environments of the past ten years. The repatriation holiday is part of the new tax plan. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before.

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 2, 2018

This blog post was adapted from a presentation I did recently. Hence, slides. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I receive a lot of questions about growth teams. Naturally, there is a lot of confusion. Is this marketing being re-branded? Who does this team report to? What is the goal of it? What do they actually work on? When do I start a growth team for my business?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2018

The post How to Win More Deals with Sales Engagement Data appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

People said there’s no money in hosting. WordPress is just a toy. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this. I’m sure people said similar things to Heather when she joined as our CEO. The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2017

There’s a crisis in the scientific academic world. It’s called the Replication Crisis. Scientists have found that they cannot replicate the results published by many scientific studies. The same thing is happening in the world of business. Over the last 15 years I’ve read several hundred business books, and I’ve written one. Across those 15 years, one of the most interesting is a book called The Management Myth, which traces the history of management science back to its l

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2018

The post How to Supercharge Customer Acquisition with 4 Unconventional Outreach Tactics appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 2, 2018

There are many ways to get customers to stick around, but they're not all equal. Let's take a look at the fine balance between holding users captive and making them want to stay. Stickiness is a term usually used with a positive sentiment in the tech industry — everyone wants a sticky product. However, the term lock-in is normally used negatively, describing products making it difficult for users to leave — even if they want to.

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CloseSaaS

JANUARY 4, 2018

So your sales team isn’t selling. But your incentives and commission rates are friendly, you went through the right hiring processes, your salespeople all have great track records, the product they're selling has proven interest, and the sales pipeline is full.

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ITPro

JANUARY 2, 2018

Opinion. The huge range of devices and services on offer is an opportunity to give teams exactly what they need.

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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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JANUARY 4, 2018

As any SaaS business grows, customer churn has the potential to turn from a minor issue to an all-out growth killer. Calculating your growth ceiling can be a useful tool to illustrate the limits of your growth, highlighting the profound effect of churn. What is the SaaS growth ceiling? Many SaaS businesses overlook the multiplicative effect that churn can have on their business, especially if new customer acquisition grows linearly.

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CloseSaaS

JANUARY 3, 2018

I always felt like customer meetups were a luxury. They helped you look good on social media—“Look at all the fun we’re having with our customers!”—but they didn't actually generate much value.

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