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How to Fish in the Same Pond Without P **g Everyone Off

Predictable Revenue

Collin reconnects with Matthew Roberts from Mosaic to discuss the evolution from broad-based prospecting to a hyper-focused strategy The post How to Fish in the Same Pond Without P **g Everyone Off appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Feature Rollout: What Is It and How to Conduct It? (+Best Practices)

User Pilot

Even if you’ve been a product manager for a while, a new feature rollout can be a challenging experience. Fear not, though, as this article provides lots of valuable insights into the process. We explain what a feature rollout is, why it is important for product teams, and how to conduct them. We also share some best practices. Ready to dive in?

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What Are The Odds You Get Acquired Within 5 Years for a Good Price? Around 1%-1.5%

SaaStr

So Carta put out some recent data I found very useful on how many startups raise another round, and how many sort of quietly wind down, in the first 5 years or so after being founded (from 2018 to early 2024): Almost none IPO’d in the first 5 years, but that just makes sense. It takes at least 8-10 years, on average, to IPO these days. And half the Seed stage startups had shut down by Year 5.

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The Vector Computer Company

Tom Tunguz

If you were to watch three videos on YouTube Shorts - one on Italian cooking, one on chess openings, & a third on crypto trading, YouTube Shorts’ recommendation algorithm combines the video descriptions with your dwell time. Watching the osso bucco video to its end would trigger more Italian cooking specialty videos in your feed. We believe every LLM-based application will need this capability.

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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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How I Repurpose Blog Content into LinkedIn Posts to Expand My Reach

Buffer Resources

If you’re publishing quality blog content, you’re also creating ideal content for LinkedIn — you just need to learn how to repurpose it. I’m Irina, a Growth and SEO Advisor, and I help companies grow their visibility with inbound marketing. During the last eight years, I’ve helped well-known SaaS companies (like Hunter and Aura) grow their traffic to hundreds of thousands of sessions from organic and social media channels.

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Slides from Balderton Webinar on Entering New Markets, The Key to Efficient Growth

Kellblog

Just a quick post to share the slides from the webinar I did with Balderton Capital this morning entitled Opening New Markets, The Key to Efficient Growth in 2024 and Beyond. Thanks to everyone who attended and/or submitted questions at the event. And thanks to the Balderton team for hosting it. The slides are embedded below as a slideshow. You can download a PDF version here.

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14 Local Search Developments You Need to Know About From Q1 2024

The Moz Blog

From new European local SERPs and the GBP site shutdown to a grab bag of Google developments, Miriam Ellis recaps Q1 2024 local SEO news so you won’t miss a thing!

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Biotech Revolution with Software Engineering Daily

Andreessen Horowitz

“There is a revolution unfolding in biotech. The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications.” Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health, joins the Software Engineering Daily podcast to talk about innovation in biotech and healthcare, the biotech startup landscape, the impact of AI, and much more.

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Pods in Customer Success vs. Sales: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Sixteen Ventures

Pods, a collaborative team structure, have been around for several years but have become increasingly popular in both Customer Success (CS) and Sales, especially as the former has become even more efficiency-focused in the past year. While Pods share some similarities between Sales and Customer Success, their core objectives and functionalities differ based on the […] The post Pods in Customer Success vs.

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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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Redpoint: Seed May Still Be Strong, But There’s No Bounce Back at Series A. And the AI Premium is 3x.

SaaStr

So Redpoint Ventures published some of the slides they recently presented to their Limited Partners (their own investors) here. There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen. And what it says is that even though Seed stage investing remains arguably as strong as ever … Series A hasn’t bounced back.

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AI SaaS Companies Will Be More Profitable

Tom Tunguz

Will AI sofware companies operate with better or worse profitability than a classic SaaS company? Initially, I thought worse since the expense of serving AI as a product is signficantly higher. But now I’m not so sure. AI SaaS may be much more profitable than the -10% average net income margins of the current crop of public businesses. Yes, AI inflates the cost to serve the product.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused.

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Embedded Payments explained: Everything software companies need to know

Payrix

In a market shaped by fierce competition, emerging technologies, and dominating customer expectations, B2B software companies have evaluated many angles of differentiation to keep the attention of their customers. Among the most recent strategies proving successful for software companies is Embedded Payments. In fact, a recent report from IDC estimates that by 2030, 74% of global digital payments will be processed through platforms owned by non-financial institutions, including software companie

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

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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Dear SaaStr: For High Dollar Vertical SaaS, Does The First VP of Sales Need Domain Expertise?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: If you were hiring a head of sales for a high-priced, niche B2B SaaS product, would you focus on general B2B SaaS sales experience or on market/customer knowledge, assuming it will be very difficult to find a candidate with both? This is the scenario when the trade-off is the most acute. Imagine you are selling a $100,000+ product and you yourself as CEO/founders have limited knowledge selling to the customer base.

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Analyze All the Things : Data Omniscience with Omni

Tom Tunguz

Within data teams, a tension exists. Centralize the data analysis to ensure accuracy or enable end-users to analyze their own data directly which is faster & more direct. The pendulum between these two states started with centralization during the 2000s with BI products from Microstrategy, Cognos, BusinessObjects, & Hyperion. In 2004, Tableau emerged from the Stanford campus to deliver their application to the users.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. Last year, while consumers spent hours chatting with new AI companions or making images and videos with diffusion models, most enterprise engagement with genAI seemed limited to a handful of obvious use cases and shipping “GPT-wrapper” products as new SKUs.

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YouTube SEO: A Simple Step-by-step Guide to Videos That Rank

Buffer Resources

You could be making the most attention-grabbing, helpful, entertaining videos — if you’re not leveraging the power of YouTube SEO, you’re leaving views on the table.  YouTube is effectively the video version of its parent company, Google, so the way users discover videos on the social media platform is a lot like how they search for something on the search engine.

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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.

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

At SaaStr Miami, former Founder’s Fund Partner and CRO of Brex Sam Blond — host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast — sat down with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin for a fireside chat about finding success as a SaaS company in 2024. They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions.

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What is a Customer Profile Template? Steps and Examples

User Pilot

Are you selling your product to the right people? How do you even know if you have no clue what your ideal customer looks like? That’s why you need a customer profile template. They help you understand your target audience better so you can connect and engage them more easily. Read on to find out the different types that make a customer profile, how you can create a customer profile template in 5 steps, and some customer profile examples.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. CEO of Quora Adam D’Angelo discusses how building infrastructure for creators can democratize AI with a16z general partner David George. [01:07] Social networks as compliment to AI [03:59] Poe: bringing AI

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Instagram Customer Care 101 for Small Businesses

Buffer Resources

In 2013, I started as a social media specialist at a digital marketing agency. Our main client was UNIQA, the largest insurance group in Europe, which focused on Facebook marketing. They also asked us to create an Instagram profile just to have a presence on another social media platform.  As a junior SMM specialist, it was my job to repost Facebook posts to Instagram and check out Instagram comments once a week.

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Driving Growth, Customer Satisfaction, and Retention through Usage-Based Pricing

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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Dear SaaStr: Does the Fund Make The VC or VC Make The Fund?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Does the fund make the VC or VC make the fund? The VC makes the fund — but it’s a little more nuanced than that. Only 2 things matters for VC until it’s late stage, and maybe even then: Getting the best founders to pick you; and Picking from the best founders that do pick you. Everything else is just an input. Deal flow is just an input.

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User Experience Optimization Guide For SaaS: Steps and Techniques

User Pilot

As today’s user increasingly desires swift solutions when using digital products, user experience optimization can spell the difference between the success and failure of a product. To retain users, continuous improvement of your UX optimization efforts is critical. This guide takes an in-depth examination of steps you can start implementing right away to improve your product’s UX optimization.

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Pricing and Packaging Your B2B or Prosumer Generative AI Feature

Andreessen Horowitz

Effectively monetizing any new technology is a race to capture market share while still giving yourself room to grow your business. But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins.

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Discovering SimpleCirc Alternatives for Your Magazine in 2024

Subscription Flow

SimpleCirc stands out as a noteworthy option when looking into subscription management software because of its intuitive user interface and effective subscriber data handling. Smaller companies or niche publications looking for ease of use for handling their subscription operations will find its streamlined approach especially appealing. But it is important to understand that there are SimpleCirc alternatives with advantages that might be more suitable for certain business requirements.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The Path to CRO with TigerEye, CircleCl, Lattice, and Notion

SaaStr

The path to Cheif Revenue Officer (CRO) is different for many people. Tracy Young , CEO and co-founder at TigerEye, sits down with three CROs to talk about how they navigated the journey to revenue leader. Jane Kim, former CRO of CircleCl, Laurabeth Harvey, President of Field Operations at Lattice, and Erica Anderson, Notion’s CRO, all share the key decisions or events that shaped their careers.

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5 Methods to Visualize Customer Feedback for Actionable Insights

User Pilot

Saving time isn’t the only benefit of visually analyzing customer feedback. Being able to examine customer feedback data visually also makes it easier to derive actionable insights and, ultimately, form decisions. How do you visualize user feedback , and what are the different methods to go about it? We’ve got the answers right here! TL;DR Customer feedback data visualization helps you identify trends, study patterns , and communicate findings by transforming raw data into tangible c

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Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Strategizing Customer Penetration for Enhanced Growth

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Strategizing Customer Penetration for Enhanced Growth For B2B subscriptions, customer retention is a pivotal factor underpinning the long-term success and sustainability of businesses. Far beyond the initial capture, the art of retaining customers demands a nuanced, ongoing engagement strategy that nurtures and expands the customer relationship over time.

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