Kellblog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
A guy walks into a bar and orders a $17 Martini. Is it MRR (monthly recurring revenue)? The potentially surprising answer: maybe, and often yes. If he’s a tourist who happened to walk in, then no, it’s not MRR. If he’s lived here for two years and comes in every Thursday for a Martini, yes. He represents $68 of what I’d call empirical MRR [1].
SaaS Brief Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 10, 2022
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Chargebee
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Nothing that's truly transformational, is simple. Like conquering planets, building products that outlive the people, or intercepting customer churn before it even happens. Innovation is supposed to be complex. Or is it?
Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Learn five steps to build an outbound sales function, including how to navigate the hiring process, train your sales team, and set up foundations to scale. The post 5 Steps To Build An Outbound Sales Team From The Ground Up appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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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.
IT World
OCTOBER 12, 2022
With both Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor having been previously struck down by legal challenges, experts question whether US President Biden’s executive order implementing the new Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework will stand up to scrutiny.
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Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The sales profession often drives people away because its training methods need updating. Too many salespeople are taught to rely on pushy and spammy tactics. And these tactics make those salespeople — not to mention their prospects — uncomfortable, decreasing any successful outcome. The desire for authenticity in sales. More than ever, people want to do work that’s personally meaningful and connects with their values.
Totango
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. .
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 10, 2022
This article is the first of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. One of the most common conversations we have with fintech entrepreneurs looking to launch a new financial product is about … The post Launching a Financial Product: How to Choose the Right Funding Structure appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Entrepreneur - SaaS
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The average SaaS company spends just 6 hours determining its pricing strategy. This means entrepreneurs are missing out on a crucial part of their business.
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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.
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Offering high-demand merchandise at an affordable price is perhaps the most effective way to ensure your online business thrives in the long. The post 7 Ways to Find the Best Dropshipping Products appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The public software market continues to compress. Enterprise-value-to-forward-revenue multiples are now below 2016 levels for the first time in 6 in years. The 25th percentile of companies trade at 3.3x today compared to 4.0x in 2016. The median or 50th percentile trade at 4.9x vs 5.6x. The 75th percentile have resisted the downward pull & retain their premium: 7.3x vs 5.8x.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Over the last three years, the United States economy has shifted drastically. The economic landscape of today differs greatly from what it was even a few short months ago. From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather than growth at any cost. . “Sales and marketing alignment is a terrific place to figure out and improve efficient growth.” .
Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Rand Fishkin joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to gain a deeper understanding of your audience to improve your outbound sales process. The post How to Gain a Deep Understanding of Your Audience appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Both iCloud and Google Drive are designed for a similar purpose—content storage. The big difference is one is Apple’s creation, and the. The post iCloud vs. Google Drive appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 9, 2022
On October 18th at 10am Pacific, Office Hours will host Carilu Dietrich. Carilu headed corporate marketing for Atlassian from $150m to $450m in revenue & through their massively successful IPO. Since then, she’s advised Segment, Kong, Miro, PagerDuty, Bill.com & 1Password, among many others. Needless to say, her vista across many leading SaaS companies marketing practices is exceptional.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Early Hire That Almost Never Works: Director of Outbound. 10 Tips to Start Selling to Big Companies as a Tiny Startup. Seasoned VPs Cost 10x a Stretch VP Now.
Clouded Judgement
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Tail Risk What a week. The WCLD index dropped >10% over the last week, and yesterday coming off of the CPI release the S&P swung >5% from it’s intraday low to intraday high (this is one of the largest intraday swings since the crazy volatility at the onset of Covid in March 2020).
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 8, 2022
When it’s time to screen candidates for a new job position, there’s a plethora of background check tools to pick from. HireRight. The post HireRight Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaS Brief Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The role of a Solution Engineer is pivotal to the success or demise of a sales opportunity, therefore needs to be elevated and supported beyond the norm.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 8, 2022
Dear SaaStr: Which Mistakes Have You Learned the Most From as an Entrepreneur? The top mistakes I’ve learned from: You can do OK with a so-so founding team, but you can’t do great. And great individuals do not necessarily make great co-founders. So slow this part down. We’re all in a rush, but you can go so, so much further, and with so much less stress and drama, if you truly have a great co-founder.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The fourth quarter is the most important quarter for software companies around the world. . We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales. And here’s our question to you: Are you really taking advantage of the quarter?
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The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 12, 2022
HostGator and GoDaddy both offer popular hosting options for your business website. Each one offers a reliable platform to help you run. The post HostGator vs. GoDaddy appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaS Brief Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Two years ago, I wrote an article about best ways to SaaS-enable applications. This article is a follow up to that article, discussing SaaSOps.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 13, 2022
SaaStr’s Poya Osgouei has a great Uncharted podcast that does a deeper dive with many SaaS execs. Up this week is Cristina Vila. Cristina is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cledara, a leading platform that combines management tools for teams with a payments platform to help companies take control of the software they use to run their business. In the current challenging funding environment, they just raised a $20 million round.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 10, 2022
In September, Slack rolled out its first pricing change since the company launched in 2014. Slack announced its pricing change in a blog post in July, and pricing changes took effect in September. During a recent live interview about pricing strategies to combat stagflation , FastSpring’s Sales Manager Todd Stellfox and Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith discussed what Slack did well in this announcement.
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The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 14, 2022
ShipBob is a global ecommerce fulfillment service that offers a 99.95% accuracy rate in fulfilling orders. With more than 7,000 company partners, The post ShipBob Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2022
?. At Intercom, we believe that in-product messaging will become the primary customer communication channel. Not only is it the only channel you have full control over, but it’s the best place to quickly sort out issues and share information with your customers in a swift, non-disruptive way. After all, if you’re trying to engage your customer or persuade them to take an action, the best and easiest place to do that is when they’re in the product itself – not a few hours or days late
SaaStr
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Were The Top Pieces of Advice You’re Glad You Ignored? 1. Don’t do any VC investments your first year. Take your time. Sound advice. But would have missed 4 unicorns if I had. 2. It’s Hopeless. Let’s Throw in the Towel. Yes, it was. But quitting doesn’t help. 3. Don’t start that start-up, it won’t work, there aren’t enough customers, and the technology doesn’t work.
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