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Guide to Developing Habits for Sales Success

Predictable Revenue

This conversation highlights how routines and prioritizing personal and professional goals can significantly enhance sales performance. The post Guide to Developing Habits for Sales Success appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The ultimate implementation guide for software payment processing

Payrix

How to implement a software payment solution to elevate your business management platform The software industry has always had the reputation of advancing at breakneck speeds. Driven by the ever-present urgency to meet market demands, software providers have consistently been in a race to deliver a customer experience that rivals their competition. In recent years, many have discovered the value of Embedded Payments to elevate that experience.

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Dear SaaStr: How Hard Is It To Break Into Venture Capital?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Hard Is It to Break Into Venture Capital? It’s a tiny industry that is tough to break into. For sure. Truly tiny. There are only a few hundred VC firms, and each may only need 1-3 more junior investors. That means a handful of positions, really. There just aren’t that many VC firms, and they don’t have that many employees. But here’s the thing folks don’t get: just about every VC fund I know — including SaaStr Fund / 2024 itself — is hiring.

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The Role of Subscription Management in Modern Revenue Operations

Chargebee

Subscription-based revenue models have taken center stage in a macroeconomic climate focused on efficient growth. Effectively managing subscriptions is more than a simple task—it’s critical to drive efficient revenue growth and ensure customer satisfaction. This article will discuss how subscription management is pivotal in modern revenue operations for Salesforce users.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

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!

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Punctuated Equilibrium in AI : Is it Better to Be A First Mover or A Last Mover?

Tom Tunguz

Machine learning advances tend to evolve in bursts. Researchers publish a new paper with a newly discovered technique. It launches the industry forward & more researchers rapidly iterate to improve it further. Progress looks like this - a series of S curves one after another. No one knows the time period between the rapid progress or the slope of the curves or how much progress we’ll make during one of these curves.

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The 12 PCI DSS Requirements to Ensure PCI Compliance

Stax

The writing on the wall is clear. Cash payments are passé. Consumers are increasingly opting for debit and credit cards or other digital payment methods—for in-store and eCommerce purchases alike. A study by the Pew Research Centre found that in 2022, 41% of consumers didn’t use cash for weekly purchases of essentials like groceries and gas. This was a huge leap from 2018 when only 29% used cashless payments for the same.

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From Silos to Synergy: How Sales and CS Alignment Unlocks Revenue Growth

Totango

“Success is revenue. You get success right; your revenue is coming.” – Charlie Sonnenberg, VP Sales, Totango + Catalyst Customer-led growth is the only way to protect and sustain revenue growth. Bold statement? Perhaps, but industry data backs up this claim—SaaS companies are putting more resources and more strategic focus behind retaining and growing revenue from the existing customer base.

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8 Top Self Service Options for Customers (To Keep Them Coming Back)

Groove HQ

Providing great customer support is key to small business success. But answering the same questions day in and day out can take a toll, and pull focus away from other tasks. The good news is that over two-thirds of customers actually prefer to find answers on their own. A customer self service solution that’s efficient […] The post 8 Top Self Service Options for Customers (To Keep Them Coming Back) appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Best SaaS Applications for E-Commerce Businesses

SaaS Metrics

Optimize your e-commerce success by exploring top SaaS applications that promise scalability, customization, and seamless integration—discover which platform fits your needs. The post Best SaaS Applications for E-Commerce Businesses first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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28 Simple, Free SEO Tools to Boost Your Search Rankings in 2024

Buffer Resources

Whenever I dream up a home improvement project for my place, I work the smartest and fastest when I have the right tools. It’s amazing the difference a good tool can make – and the extra time it takes to get work done without a helpful tool. The same principle applies to  digital marketing. How can you work smarter and faster with SEO?

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Coate: We Have a 25 Year IPO Backlog. But Software Will Bounce Back Soon.

SaaStr

So Coate a leading multi-stage VC firm put up a ton of great data in its East West conference. A few that I thought we were super helpful for SaaS folks: “At the 8th annual East Meets West (EMW) conference, we gathered technology leaders from around the world for three days of thought-provoking conversations and connection building. We kicked off the event with our annual “Coatue View on the State of the Markets” to provide an outlook on the macroeconomic landscape that helps guide our vi

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OneStream: Benchmarking the S1 Data

Clouded Judgement

Recently OneStream their initial S1 statement. A S-1 is a document companies file with the SEC in preparation for listing their shares on an exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more.

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The Future of Blockchain Data : Our Investment in Allium

Tom Tunguz

Large scale ETL (extract, transform, load) processes are a critical part of any data pipeline. They are responsible for moving data from one place to another, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a destination system. In the world of blockchain, these processes are even more complex. In web2, the engineering team building a payment processing system will convey to the analytics team the data schema.

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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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7 Bluesky Content Ideas and Tips for Your Next Post

Buffer Resources

Since Bluesky opened up fully, it has gained over 6 million users , with over 1 million of them active every month. Yes, that’s right, you don’t need an invite code to sign up to Bluesky anymore. Yay! However, open access means there’s an influx of new users who have no clue what to post to the fediverse platform. This is true of most new social platforms and also completely natural, especially as the platform hits the triple combination of: being fairly new with a small use

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Everyone’s Adding AI. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Accelerating Growth.

SaaStr

So obvious AI is a generational change in software. Where it will exactly all go we can’t 100% predict. But there’s a general sense of the Haves and Have Nots. That the Open AIs, Microsofts and Databricks “get it”, that Nvidia is the fuel, that all the hot start-ups are AI native and still raising at unicorn valuation … and that many SaaS leaders are sort of being left in the dust.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Intelligence Revolution

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now Innovation follows exponential curves. The First Industrial Revolution started in ~1760 and mechanized production - we moved from creating goods by hand to creating goods with machines. The Second Industrial Revolution (the Technology Revolution) started in ~1870 and was characterized by rapid industrialization, technological innovations such as electricity, the internal combustion engine, and the expansion of railways and telegraph networks, which further transformed economies and

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Join FastSpring at ChinaJoy 2024!

FastSpring

Join us in Shanghai at ChinaJoy and discover how we can help you unlock the full potential of your video game sales! Find us in the B2B Hall W4 – Booth # B286. The 2024 edition of ChinaJoy, themed “Stay True, Game On,” is scheduled from July 26th to 29th at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). This year’s event will focus on deepening player experiences and supporting international growth for game companies. “ ‘Stay True’ is to express the deep love and per

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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How to Use Reddit: A Beginner’s Guide for Marketers + Creators

Buffer Resources

As a marketer, small business owner, or creator, you might be tempted to brush Reddit off as the domain of internet trolls and cat memes.  And while there is a fair bit of that on the platform, you can gain a huge amount of value from getting active in Reddit’s hundreds of thousands of niche communities.  With more than 82 million daily active users and 16 billion posts and comments (as of May 2024 ), the social media platform can be a powerhouse for brand reach and growth

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5 Interesting Learnings from OneStream at $480,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So we’ve finally got another SaaS IPO gearing up — OneStream. It’s SaaS for CFOs and financial operations, a large but somewhat under-discussed category. SAP and Oracle are very strong here. Founded back in 2010 (SaaS takes time!) with first customers launched in 2012, the metrics today are very strong: $480,000,000 in ARR Growing 34% (strong) 98% GRR (!

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Clouded Judgement 7.19.24 - Big Tech Rotation

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 Big Tech Rotation For the last 18 months Big Tech has been on a tear. So much so that the market created a separate name for them - The Magnificent 7. This group includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta, and has been responsible for a significant percentage of the overall gains of the Nasdaq.

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The 11 Known Google Business Profile Fields That Impact Your Rank

The Moz Blog

In this blog post, Miriam discusses 11 Google Business Profile fields that can have a positive impact on how you rank.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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The True Cost of AE Tools and Software

Predictable Revenue

PR and PriceLevel have partnered to provide pricing transparency and an understanding of the cost structures in the sales tech stack. The post The True Cost of AE Tools and Software appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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What it Takes to Get Funded in 2024 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

What does it take to get funded in 2024? Jason Lemkin shares the answer during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. PST. Some of this stuff you’ll know, and some of it you won’t. What’s driving VCs today? Let’s find out. Venture capital is the same as before but different. It’s a weird world where seed valuations are at an all-time high.

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GTM 103: Blockchain’s Impact on Finance and Investing with Annelise Osborne

Sales Hacker

Annelise Osborne is Chief Business Officer at Kadena, a Layer 1, POW blockchain where she is focused on upgrading finance. Annelise has 20 years of experience in traditional finance and seven years in digital assets. She is a thought leader, board advisor, university lecturer and author. Her book, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets in Traditional Finance , hit shelves in June.

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Testing Ideas From the Google API Leaks — Whiteboard Friday

The Moz Blog

How do we know what is and what isn’t a Google ranking factor? In this episode, Will reveals four testing ideas relating to the Google API leaks to help answer that question.

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A Strategic Roadmap for AI Integration in Software Testing

Implementing AI in software testing can accelerate release cycles, boost efficiency, and enhance software quality—but only with a clear strategy. This guide offers a step-by-step roadmap to help you evaluate readiness, strengthen infrastructure, upskill teams, and meet compliance needs. Discover how to automate up to 70% of testing tasks, enhance defect detection, and integrate AI into your CI/CD workflows without disrupting your SDLC.

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What is Product Management in Tech: Guide to the Role Of A Technical PM

User Pilot

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” and wondered how it’s different from traditional product management. This guide takes a deep dive into the world of technical product management , showing you how to become one of these in-demand professionals. We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

SaaStr

How can you bridge the gap between sales and tech to drive customer success? Sarah Polan, EMEA Field CTO at HashiCorp, and Louise Fellows, VP NEMEA at HashiCorp, explore the relationship between Field CTO and sales to help you understand why it exists and how you can leverage this relationship when you have a highly technical product. The 3 Building Blocks The three building blocks that bridge the gap between sales and Field CTOs are: Product knowledge Balance Trust Building Block #1: Product Kn

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Webinar Recap: Why Flexibility in Payment Solutions Enhances User Experience for ISVs – July 2024

Infinicept

Why Flexibility in Payment Solutions Enhances User Experience for ISVs In the ever-changing payments landscape, ISVs need the right payments tech stack to meet evolving expectations of their merchants and end-users.