Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Shopify is an exceptional business. There are not many software companies who can nearly quadruple their enterprise value in two years. But Shopify has grown from $2.7B in enterprise value to more than $10B. What are the metrics behind this behemoth? First, let’s describe the company a bit. Shopify provides e-commerce infrastructure to merchants.
InsightSquared
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. It’s nearing the end of your company’s fiscal year, the sales team is gearing up for another year end close, holiday parties are being planned, and your leadership team is determining 2018 initiatives. These initiatives will likely trickle down into your lap in the form of a whole heaping of new projects, sometimes with little more than a one sentence headline.
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Totango
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Every company, especially a large enterprise, builds an organizational structure around their customer operations. Whether by region, product, vertical, or any other business parameter they define, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are broken into teams to give them focus, tailored processes, and specific metrics that make sense for their line of business.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 6, 2017
You've created a fantastic product, but it's not getting the attention you hoped for after you launched your SaaS business. Why? The intended audience isn't aware of its existence. It's time to examine some potential tools to use in order to gain a better understanding of your online presence. Here are five tools that will help you improve your SaaS's marketing strategy.
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.
SaaSHolic
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Eu acho que você vai gostar deste material de marketing! Saber fazer uma boa curadoria de conteúdos é uma arte. E o meu amigo @Thiago Reis tem feito um trabalho enorme de curadoria e criação de bons conteúdos no seu canal “ Máquina de Crescimento ” no Youtube. Se você ainda não viu, recomendo que você dê uma olhada. Uma compilação MASSA! O Thiago selecionou um monte de materiais super bacanas em um kit gratuito, em parceria com a @RockContent e o @12minutos.
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CloseSaaS
OCTOBER 2, 2017
We all want to build strong, long-lasting relationships with influential people—whether they’re CEOs, investors, advisors, or your personal heroes.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 2, 2017
From 2015 to 2016 total U.S. retail ecommerce sales increased from $294.45 billion to $322.17 billion. Trends suggest 2017 will top off somewhere around $353.68 billion. For perspective, total estimated retail sales in the U.S. came in around $5 trillion. Ecommerce grew faster in 2016 than ever before, booming by 15.6%. In other words, ecommerce is here to stay.
Chargify
OCTOBER 4, 2017
We have heard it hundreds (if not thousands) of times: “But I simply need to bill my subscribers $xx/month. Why shouldn’t I just build my own logic on top of [insert gateway name]?” Although we can make a compelling argument, it doesn’t always win over prospects. Luckily, we hear back from many 2-3 months later with….“I wish we would have gone with Chargify from the beginning.”.
Joel Caparella
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Wisdom is a currency that is substantially undervalued today. Not surprising when you consider the current media climate of instant reaction and immediate satisfaction, and wisdom has much more to do with patience and time. The much-maligned millennial generation is not that different than generations before them; they have just been weened on immediate satisfaction of curiosity and want.
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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.
Network World
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Retail hasn’t lost its “cool.” [aaaayyyyy] It’s just reinventing it. We know this but Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods sure gave everyone a wake-up call to “innovate or get left-in-the-dust.” I know, you’re in charge of IT, not corporate strategy… but bear with me. This ends up being an IT thing. As Forbes recently detailed , while Amazon unveiled its plans for Whole Foods (which includes decreased prices and the addition of industry-disrupting in-store technology), the market reacted.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 4, 2017
As more and more consumers use their mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) to shop, it has become increasingly important for savvy companies to invest in mobile payment systems.
OnStartups
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Today the State of Remote Work 2017 report revealed that 63% of people in product and engineering roles work remotely at least once per week, which is 21% more than the average. Along with key findings on how remote work is changing the workplace, the report also revealed that startup environments may be a particularly strong match for remote work. Why might that be?
Rakam
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Imagine you resume work and realize that your data has just been compromised. Months and years of data all maliciously tampered with and there’s no idea where it all went wrong. Take John… John manages data at a company called ABC Technology. One morning, he’s asked to look for a better query engine that can manage the company’s gigabytes and petabytes of data.
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Network World
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Retail hasn’t lost its “cool.” [aaaayyyyy] It’s just reinventing it. We know this but Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods sure gave everyone a wake-up call to “innovate or get left-in-the-dust.” I know, you’re in charge of IT, not corporate strategy… but bear with me. This ends up being an IT thing. As Forbes recently detailed , while Amazon unveiled its plans for Whole Foods (which includes decreased prices and the addition of industry-disrupting in-store technology), the market reacted.
The Angel VC
OCTOBER 3, 2017
When you’re talking to investors about a Series B, Series C or later round, one of the questions that will inevitably come up is “What are your CACs?”. It sounds like a simple question, but from the question of what costs to include and the right way to account for organic traffic to the pandora box of multi-touch attribution , there are lots of devils in the details.
OnStartups
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Today the State of Remote Work 2017 report revealed that 63% of people in product and engineering roles work remotely at least once per week, which is 21% more than the average. Along with key findings on how remote work is changing the workplace, the report also revealed that startup environments may be a particularly strong match for remote work. Why might that be?
A Smart Bear
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on.
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
Chart Mogul
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Weren't able to make it to SaaStock this year? I shared our approach to building a valuable, engaged audience for ChartMogul. Here's the full transcript and slides for you to read. Note: You can also find the full deck on SlideShare – although it’s easier to read the full transcript here on our blog. This is ChartMogul! We’re about 25 people and one Dachshund, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
InsightSquared
OCTOBER 2, 2017
For sales and marketing teams at business-to-business technology companies, the calendar is divided into two unequal parts: Dreamforce and the rest of the year. For one week in the fall, tech workers pull on their logo’d polos, pressed denim and crisp white sneakers, and march through the halls of the Moscone Center where more than 100 “household”-name vendors unleash their flashiest marketing creative and practiced sales narratives.
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