The Angel VC
MAY 17, 2017
In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow from zero to $100k in MRR in their first 12 months of going live. Both companies clearly had impressive traction, but in both cases we weren’t convinced of the market size and the opportunity to build a large, sustainable company.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 15, 2017
How much revenue do you want to book for your SaaS startup next quarter? And in 12 months? It is one thing to put a number down on the financial plan. It’s another thing altogether to have the sales team staffed to close that amount of business. The bookings capacity of the business is the amount of business a sales team should book in a certain period.
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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
MAY 13, 2017
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a fan of marketing automation. I can’t imagine handling my email newsletter, my website, or my blog without automation. Managing subscribes & unsubscribes, tracking opens & clicks, and scheduling posts manually… that would bury me. And for companies that send out emails and track responses from thousands of prospective customers, solutions that automate those and other marketing functions are indispensable.
Pierre Lechelle
MAY 15, 2017
When I was 16 years old, I was daydreaming about an automated business. I imagined money flowing into my account while I was asleep. I was so amazed by stories of companies like Salesforce, Buffer, or SendGrid and how they could create value and earn money with online software. I started programming when I was […]. Cet article 6 Mistakes that will kill your B2B SaaS Startup est apparu en premier sur Pierre Lechelle.
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ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!
Hacking Revenue
MAY 14, 2017
Business Development means different things to different people in different industries. Even though the title itself is used in almost every industry – more than 3.5 Million people listed in Linkedin alone(!) – the job description, goals and responsibilities of a Business Development person are dramatically different from company to company.
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Adhere Creative
MAY 15, 2017
L ets be honest, out of other types of B2B businesses to create engaging marketing content for, manufacturing is pretty up there when it comes to difficulty. Content for manufacturing can simply be a little too technical, convoluted, or highly niche. But not anymore.
CloseSaaS
MAY 15, 2017
Every other day, I read a headline about the extinction of salespeople: "The future of sales is artificial intelligence" or "95% of salespeople will be replaced by AI within 20 years.
ReSci
MAY 14, 2017
What if as a marketer you could run 10 A/B tests within a week without lifting a finger instead of the standard monthly testing? You could be getting a significant increase in productivity and performance if you do it right. A/B testing is a standard step. The post The Smart Marketer: When to Use Multi-Armed Bandit A/B Testing appeared first on ReSci.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 13, 2017
In January, I wrote The Hardest Round to Raise which argued Series B rounds would be the most challenging early stage round in 2017. Irrespective of the annual vicissitudes of the fundraising market, Series Bs are always the most challenging rounds to raise because they are in-between rounds. The Series B is the pimpled and gangly adolescent phase of startup evolution.
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Software Platform Consulting
MAY 16, 2017
I love the word “oligoply” It’s a fancy word for a market structure in which a few companies have the large majority of market share. The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by platform software. Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks.
The CTO Group
MAY 15, 2017
Renai LeMay is CTO Group’s Advisory Delivery Manager. He is certified across Project Management, IT Service Management and Agile methodologies. Where does the new breed of Agile methodologies fit in with a traditional Project Management approach? On paper, at least, each side should be more than comfortable with the other. Project Managers essentially view Agile as a ‘delivery’ methodology that is outside their remit.
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