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How to Identify a SaaS Market that Machine Learning Will Disrupt

Tom Tunguz

In SaaS, machine learning has become an essential component to many different products. Whether it’s automating responses to inbound sales queries, identifying expense reports for audit, or surfacing anomalies in data, machine learning improves workflow software. To date, most software imbued with machine learning reduces costs rather than increase revenues.

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Sales Hacker’s Yearly Recap & 2018 Roadmap For Growth (VERY Transparent)

Sales Hacker

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 300 people showed up to learn about all the new advancements in Sales Technology.

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The Rise of Social Commerce

FastSpring

Facebook recently announced a plan to test a shopping feed within its app that is designed to help users discover new products and buy them seamlessly. Welcome to the brave new world of social commerce.

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Meet your first wave speakers for Customer Success Summit 2018

Totango

Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. The first wave of speakers has been announced and the experience and CS knowledge they bring to #CSSummit18 is priceless.

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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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Protected: [Infographic] The Story of Customer Effort Score (test)

InsightSquared

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How to Prepare for M&A Management Presentations

The SaaS CFO

Management Presentations in M&A Due Diligence The banker said to block my calendar for management presentations. Excuse me, what are management presentations? And for two weeks? Yes, and this is only the halfway point. The real “fun” in due diligence comes after the management presentations. However, before we get too far, let’s break down what […].

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What is Quote to Cash?

FastSpring

Great news! Today, one of your clients is about to make a purchase. Less-great news: It could be months before the sale becomes real revenue for your company. This example explains QTC, or quote to cash - the time it takes to go from providing a price quote to recognizing revenue. It involves many steps, from offering a price all the way through the process of negotiating, fulfilling, billing, collecting, and setting the stage for the next sale.

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Sales ops offer tips for onboarding new technology vendors

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. In previous posts , I’ve discussed how to evaluate the costs of a new sales tool, and offered some general best practices for managing your tech stack. To help you roll out the new technology your sales leadership just purchased, I’ve outlined some general guidelines you can follow to help the organization onboard a vendor successfully. .

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31 Simple, Yet Brilliant Lead Generation Techniques to Supercharge Your Sales Pipeline

Sales Hacker

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Why am I sharing this? Because as a solo-founder, I wear many hats. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. As a result, I am the lead generator, the SDR , and the closer. While this may seem laborious, it gives me tremendous power over revenue.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

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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West Midlands Police deploys cloud as part of digital transformation plans

ITPro

Case Studies. The force has teamed up with Accenture and Oracle to implement a fully-integrated SaaS strategy.

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Sweating the details on data animation in ChartMogul

Chart Mogul

A lot of thought goes into communicating the complex data you see in ChartMogul. As we're rolling out improved transitions in our charts, let's take a deep dive on the finer details of data animation and how this impacts the overall user experience. New chart transitions are here. Recently, we introduced transitions to charts in ChartMogul. This means that when you make a change to a chart’s dataset, you’ll see the chart animate the change.

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Investors turn founders into insecure little teenagers

CloseSaaS

Many founders lose confidence when they meet with investors. On the quest for validation, their entrepreneurial courage goes right out the window.

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SDRs: How to Follow Up Without Being a Stalker

Sales Hacker

The post SDRs: How to Follow Up Without Being a Stalker appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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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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Meet your first wave speakers for Customer Success Summit 2018

Totango

Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. The first wave of speakers has been announced and the experience and CS knowledge they bring to #CSSummit18 is priceless.

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How Gravity Forms Uses Chargify To Scale More Efficiently

Chargify

This blog post is part of our Customer Spotlight series. Throughout the series we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. Loved by the WordPress community at-large, Gravity Forms is praised as the “ best contact form plugin ” for websites powered by WordPress. Widely recognized as the industry leading WordPress form solution, Gravity Forms made an inspiring rise to success in the last several years.

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From on-premise to fully remote startup: How we designed an amazing company culture (no office needed)

CloseSaaS

There’s no perfect way to run a remote company, but there are a few things you can do to build a vibrant and successful team.

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Tuning a SaaS business for growth

wepay

As a SaaS business, or any online software business, moves beyond its startup phase and starts to grow seriously, there is a period of adjustment as the business adapts its operations, sales and other functions to the need for scale. Some of these changes are obvious adjustments – user onboarding needs to be streamlined to drive increased conversion or there won’t be any capability for more rapid growth.

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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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Serverless with AWS Lambda: Reducing metrics reporting lag from hours to seconds at ReSci

ReSci

Author: Avi Sanadhya, ReSci Platform Engineering Team At Retention Science we deliver personalized marketing campaigns powered by machine learning to drive a deeper level of customer engagement. Our AI engine, Cortex, is responsible for billions of predictions daily and hundreds of millions of personalized emails each month. The post Serverless with AWS Lambda: Reducing metrics reporting lag from hours to seconds at ReSci appeared first on ReSci.

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DroneDeploy uses ChartMogul to perform top-down analyses of target industries

Chart Mogul

Learn how DroneDeploy uses industry data with ChartMogul to quickly make business decisions selling to a multitude of dynamic industries. A farmer in the field trying to understand what’s happening with his crops. A construction worker trying to check progress on his job site or make design plans and track them against progress. An Insurance inspector tasked with assessing damage to a site such as from a natural disaster.

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Slack launches on Linux

ITPro

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