Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In almost every industry, startups and venture capital included, content marketing has become an essential tool for growth. Over the past four years, I’ve developed infrastructure, analyses and processes to help this blog grow from just a few visitors per month to nearly a hundred thousand today, achieved a Twitter follower quarterly growth rate of 20% and built a mailing list of close to one thousand readers.

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Content Marketing Engineering Marketing Software Review 110

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A little more than a week ago we did the second PNC SaaS Founder Meetup. Around the same time a year ago we organized our first SaaS Founder Meetup in San Francisco, this time we did it in Berlin. Thanks to the incredible speakers and guests who came to the event it's been a truly amazing day, and I think all of the SaaS founders returned with a number of actionable insights which they can't wait to implement.

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SaaS Software 108

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

When you're selling business solutions to companies, at some point in the sales process you're likely to end up doing a demo. Too bad. Most demos are useless. They usually don't help the prospective customer make a good choice. They just confuse and bore them. And they don't help the vendor make the sale, either. That's especially true for software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

Software 100

Software Sales SaaS Business 100

CloseSaaS

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

TL; DR: look at the new search query examples at the bottom of this post.

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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.

Innovation

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Twitter is the first form of communication that changes depending on who is using it. Like the telephone, the fax, email, Twitter enables all types of communications: friendly banter, customer support requests, news syndication and public service announcements to name a few. But Twitter imposes a three new wrinkles that set it apart as a new form of communication.

Communication 100

Communication Customer Support Business 100

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. Seven years later, the mobile phone is the home screen of choice for a billion people. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it. The typical mobile phone user checks their phone 110 times per day. I suspect iGoogle’s most avid users visited about 10 times daily. By that math, mobile home screens generate an order of magnitude more engagement.

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Mobile Trends Engagement Data 100

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2013, growth trumps all other considerations. For the average 2013 venture backed tech IPO, half of the startup’s enterprise value is explained by its growth rate, while none of it is explained by profitability. The market has spoken and startups have responded. Of the 25 IPOs I surveyed, both pending and completed, only 20% are profitable.

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