The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

Yesterday I argued that SaaS founders and investors shouldn’t worry about short-term movements of SaaS stocks and said that there are a lot of reasons to be bullish about the Cloud. Here are some of them. 1) SaaS is quickly becoming the norm In the last years there’s been a dramatic shift in deployment preferences of software buyers. According to a survey by technology evaluation business Software Advice , 88% of buyers with a deployment preference preferred on-premise solutions in 2008.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 23, 2015

The public markets are down more than 10% from their highs in the last few months. Public SaaS companies have been particularly hard hit. The chart above shows the enterprise value of publicly traded SaaS companies. Many of them are down substantially more than 10%. Let’s dig in a bit more. While there are five companies who currently sit at their all time highs, as of August 21, more than 90% of the SaaS companies are below at a median decline of 40%.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 26, 2015

FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT OR FREELANCE (Work remotely from anywhere you want) Are you enthusiastic about entrepreneurship, the hustle, startups, and excited about the prospect of diving deep into the world of sales, SaaS and building businesses?

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ReSci

AUGUST 28, 2015

As you may know, we at Retention Science have taken our RetailPlus Series cross-country in the last few months. We've hit Los Angeles, San…. The post Insights from LA’s Top Marketers: Drink & Learn Event Recap appeared first on ReSci.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 24, 2015

If one looks at the stock price development of public SaaS companies in the last few weeks, one could come to the conclusion that SaaS is over the hill. Salesforce.com: 17% down from its 52 week high. Veeva: 30% down from its 52 week high. Workday is 29% down, Box 47%, Hubspot 22%. Everyone got hit, as you can see in Tomasz Tunguz' post about the topic.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 24, 2015

Want to know what the fastest and most effective way is to become great at cold calling? It’s a simple two-fold approach I’ll share in this post.But before we go into that, let’s dispel some widespread myths when it comes to improving your phone sales skills.

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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ReSci

AUGUST 25, 2015

When trying to keep a customer engaged and happy, it's important to keep in mind what their interaction with your brand has been so far - meaning, are they a brand new customer or have they been purchasing from you for years. Tailoring your content and messaging to the customer lifecycle stage a customer…. The post How to use Lifecycle Marketing tactics for customer retention appeared first on ReSci.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2015

The SaaS ecosystem has been evolving incredibly quickly. Most of the time, the changes in the ecosystem are embodied in one particular company which grows exceptionally quickly. Focusing on these fast-growers, the macro shifts can be hard to discern. Last week, Okta released a report Business at Work sweeps across SaaS to reveal these recent evolutions.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Over dinner, a veteran product manager argued most SaaS products’ onboarding practices miss a crucial step: create value for the user in the first session. After that conversation, I signed up for many brand-name SaaS products pretending it was for the first time, and I couldn’t help but agree with him. Most SaaS products guide a user through three steps.

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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Aber Law Firm

AUGUST 26, 2015

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct , that you should be aware of regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not only for ad networks, but for anyone dealing in third party ads (for example, platforms, aggregators, yield optimization firms, etc).

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