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Benchmarking ServiceNow's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Worth $11.5B, ServiceNow is the third public SaaS company, after Salesforce and LinkedIn. Based in San Diego, ServiceNow employs roughly 3000 people, and sells a system of record for IT operations teams to manage IT assets, facilities, and human resources. ServiceNow’s software allows clients to develop custom applications for their own needs, often with the help of the company’s professional services team.

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Webinar: How to make your product demos sell

CloseSaaS

Join our upcoming webinar with Steli Efti on how to give effective product demos that win more new customers: -registration closed- Thursday, June 11, 2015 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT

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The 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site. [link] – They have taken it to a new level with a cleaner and simpler layout, with Trust, Status, Performance, Security and Learn links. –

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RetailPlus SF: Secrets to eCommerce Success from Kirsten Green, Founder of Forerunner Ventures

ReSci

Our team at Retention Science has been hitting the road with our RetailPlus series, a thought leader event series designed to help eCommerce and retail executives connect over good food and even better conversation. Last month, we went bicoastal to NYC for a talk…. The post RetailPlus SF: Secrets to eCommerce Success from Kirsten Green, Founder of Forerunner Ventures appeared first on ReSci.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Startup Best Practices 12 - Customer Success Compensation

Tom Tunguz

Compensation structures are one of the most interesting questions facing customer success organizations in software startups. How should customer success leaders structure their team’s compensation in order to align the objectives of individual customer success managers with those of the larger business? At the Customer Success Summit, Boaz Maor, VP of Customer Success at Mashery presented his rubric for answering this question.

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The 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept. A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New. 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site.

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Happy Birthday HubSpot! 9 Lessons From Our First 9 Years

OnStartups

9 years ago today, on June 9th 2006, HubSpot was officially started. I remember the day, because it was also the day I graduated. (I had promised myself I'd enjoy my 2 years in grad school without too much distraction, so deliberately picked graduation day as the official start-date for HubSpot.). So far, we've had a pretty good run. HubSpot is now public [NYSE:HUBS] and still growing fast.

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How an $11B SaaS Company Measures Churn

Tom Tunguz

As I prepared the S-1 analysis for ServiceNow, the third largest public SaaS company in the world , I came across a section in their latest annual report called Key Factors Affecting Our Performance in which the company describes the two ways they evaluate churn. One is common, but another is unusual. Below I’ve quoted their definitions. Upsell rate.

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Maybes are killing your startup

CloseSaaS

The path to success is paved with clear outcomes, good or bad. Most startups fail not because of their failures, but because of being stuck in the middle; what I call the maybe zone.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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The 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept. A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New. 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site.

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The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

The role of the marketing team within SaaS has stretched from simply engendering awareness and creating interest, to guiding customers much deeper into the funnel. Steve Patrizi created the schematic above that illustrates the idea beautifully. In traditional go-to-market models, marketing teams fill the very top part of the funnel. When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his sales account executive, who educates t

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The 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept. A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New. 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site.

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The 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept. A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New. 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site.

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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 2015 Update on SaaS Trust Sites

Aber Law Firm

Building trust as a concept. A while back I wrote a blog post about Trust Sites , and why, if you are a SaaS company, you should have one (outside of your SaaS agreement). Well, since them a lot has happened so I wanted to provide you with an update. What is New. 1). Salesforce.com has updated their Trust Site. – Take a look at their new site.

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