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5 User Activation Trends You Need to Follow in 2023

Inturact

You're already familiar with the critical role user activation plays in your enterprise app's success. But are you on top of the latest trends that are shaping 2023? The landscape is evolving, and the techniques that worked yesterday might not cut it today.

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B2B Customer Journey Mapping Guide For SaaS

User Pilot

Interested in building a B2B customer journey map? It’s a challenging process, but the benefits are well worth it. At the very least, a journey map will help you easily analyze and make data-driven decisions to improve the user experience. It also helps align your teams by ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding customer interactions. In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use.

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Company Culture: How to Scale Without Losing Your Soul with Todd Emaus

Mucker Capital

In one of the recent Mucker’s Growth Series Webinars, we proudly invited one of the previous MuckerLab Partners, Todd Emaus , a serial founder, author of the book Scale Without Losing Your Soul , and currently a partner at Evolution. The webinar delved into the crucial topic of company culture for early-stage startups. With a keen focus on actionable takeaways, Emaus highlighted pitfalls as well as provided insightful strategies.

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How to Pick the Best Nearshore Software Development Partner

TurnKey Labs

When you’re running a startup or tech company, it’s hard enough keeping the cogs of your software development efforts turning without worrying about adding new partners and vendors to that mix.

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The Best Product Strategy Is a Customer-Facing Portfolio Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Really Like to Be CEO of a Startup?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s It Really Like to Be CEO of a Startup? Let me just throw out a few things I’ve learned that being a CEO of start-up isn’t, or isn’t as you’d expect: It isn’t glamorous until you are At Scale and Hot, at the very minimum. At $10m-$20m+ in revenues, maybe. Maybe not even until pre-IPO. Maybe never, not really.

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Airing of Marketing and Sales Grievances with Austin LaRoche

Predictable Revenue

Friction between Marketing and Sales with Collin Stewart and Austin LaRoche. Learn why breaking down silos is critical to business growth. The post Airing of Marketing and Sales Grievances with Austin LaRoche appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The Rise of Data Lakes in Software Architecture

Tom Tunguz

Historically, software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been built on databases with structured data, as you might find in an Excel spreadsheet. But the ability of large language models to extract insights from unstructured information changes this architecture : data repositories like data lakes are becoming essential parts of modern SaaS stacks. For example, next generation marketing software might ingest structured data from Google Analytics and lead capture software as before.

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Slides From SaaStr 2023 Presentation: The Strategic Use and Abuse of SaaS Metrics

Kellblog

This is a quick post to share the slides from my SaaStr Annual 2023 presentation entitled The Strategic Use and Abuse of SaaS metrics. Thanks to everyone who attended the session, laughed at my jokes (yes, there were jokes in a SaaS metrics presentation), asked questions in the session, and who stuck around afterwards to dive deeper into more Q&A.

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Churn vs. Retention Rate: Supercharge your revenue growth by knowing the difference

Chargebee

Churn and retention rates might look like two sides of the same coin, but they measure two different aspects of your customer journeys and apply them to other teams. The churn rate captures the drawdowns of customers that have exited your platform in a particular period (monthly, quarterly, annually) and better indicates the issues nesting within your business.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Data Harmonization in Salesforce Data Cloud

CloudKettle

This post in the Data Cloud Primer series explains the data harmonization process in Salesforce Data Cloud. Data Cloud accepts data from a variety of sources. Harmonization refers to the process of transforming (or modeling) different data sources into one. Once data has been unified (or harmonized) into a standardized data model, it can then […] The post Data Harmonization in Salesforce Data Cloud appeared first on CloudKettle.

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How To Use Pepper Content

The Daily Egg

If you are struggling to achieve your marketing goals because of difficulties keeping everyone involved in content creation on the same page, The post How To Use Pepper Content appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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FREE Upcoming Workshop Wednesdays with A16Z, Notion, ex-CMO Calendly, Atomic, Weights & Biases, ex-CRO Divvy and More!!

SaaStr

So our weekly live Workshop Wednesdays have been a hit! ! We bring in a top, tactical SaaStr speaker live on Zoom for a deep dive on a core topic, then open it up for some great AMA! Almost 4,000 folks have signed up so far! Sign up for free Workshop Wednesdays here ! Upcoming ones: September 13th: Stephanie Opdam, Principal @ Notion Capital September 20th: Kristina Shen, General Partner @ A16z September 27th: Patrick Moran, Former CMO and CRO @ Calendly and Rafael Alenda, Former Vice Presid

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Clouded Judgement 9.8.23 - Early Q2 '23 Earnings Recap

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 Q2 Earnings Recap Preview We’re now through Q2 earnings season! I’ll post a much longer recap soon, but today I wanted to post the highlights. Overall, I’d describe Q2 as “Buying environment didn’t get worse, but we’re not out of the woods yet.” We saw some green shoots in AWS and a few other consumption names, and overal

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Why Software Companies Should Adopt the Mindset of a Payments Company

In today's tech-driven world, software companies are poised at a pivotal crossroads. This article delves into the transformative power of adopting a payments-centric mindset. Beyond mere transactional mechanisms, integrated payments offer a plethora of strategic benefits and user experience enhancements. Dive into the dynamics of how this integration can amplify a software company's value proposition, making them not just observers but active propellers of digital commerce.

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Whispers of the Future

Tom Tunguz

I’ve been fascinated by dictation software for many years. Speaking has struck me as the most natural interface. It also happens to be at least 3 times faster than typing. When OpenAI released their dictation model Whisper , I was keen to try it. So I installed it on my MacBook Pro. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been using it. As expected, it’s sensational.

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Credit Suite Review

The Daily Egg

Starting a business is easy. Starting one the correct way while establishing credibility and legitimacy is not. What’s even more difficult is. The post Credit Suite Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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5 Of The Best Ways to Retain Your Customers In SaaS in The Earlier Days … And After

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Best Ways to Retain Your Customers in SaaS? A few things that always work to drive down churn in the early days — and later: Make sure you have a strong Head of Customer Success … whose #1 goal is reducing churn. Too many early-stage VPs of Sales don’t have a strong “wing person” running customer success. And importantly — resist the urge to have this Head of CS own upsells as their #1 KPI.

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Let’s Get Personal: Why AI Will Unlock a Massive Market for Online Consumer Services

Andreessen Horowitz

The internet opened up a major consumer market by providing services more cheaply, and to more people, online. Now, AI is kicking off a colossal wave of opportunities for startups by making it possible to build scalable online experiences that replicate the benefits of being in person. Having a highly personalized experience is what consumers value the most about in-person services—think of tutors, personal trainers, and doctors.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core. No matter where you are in your analytics journey, you will learn about emerging trends and gather best practices from product experts.

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Will AI Accelerate Vertical SaaS Adoption?

Point Nine Land

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. This might sound like an odd statement, considering how rapidly products like YouTube, Instagram, and, more recently, ChatGPT have garnered 100M+ users.

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What are Points of Parity & How to Use them to Drive Product Growth

User Pilot

While all the buzz may be around differentiating yourself, understanding your similarities to other solutions is just as important to product-led growth — if not more important. In this guide, we’re going to go over what points of parity are, why they’re important, and how to put the right strategies in place! TL;DR Points of parity are industry standards that products must share to stay competitive with each other.

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SaaS Capital Survey of 1,500 SaaS Companies: High NRR Startups Grow Twice as Fast

SaaStr

So there’s a question I’ve had for some time in SaaS: does high NRR really equal higher growth? Yes, most of the best in SaaS have high NRR, at least once they are public. But there are multiple ways to build a leader, and startup don’t always start off with high NRR even if they end up there. SaaS Capital asked this question among some other great ones of 1,500 private SaaS companies here.

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Meet the Talent x Opportunity Fall ‘23 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

A few weeks ago, we kicked off the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) Fall 2023 cohort in San Francisco. The founders hit the ground running in person, already building strong connections and rapport. We continue to be amazed by the visionary entrepreneurs TxO has had the fortunate opportunity to collaborate with since launching the initiative in 2020. To date, TxO works with 45 promising companies and 68 founders, all of whom are building products and services inspired by unique cultural insights.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge. These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to product management. This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products.

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Infinicept Reports Clients’ 2023 Annualized Gross Payment Volume Tops $15B; Introduces Launchpay

Infinicept

Scott Agatep Hired as Infinicept COO and GM of Launchpay DENVER – September 5, 2023 – Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, has reported that its clients’ annualized gross payment volume on the platform has crossed $15B. To build on the embedded payments pioneer’s continued success with its Payops platform, the company has announced the availability of Launchpay, a fast and flexible.

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8 Customer Analytics Trends for Growth Insights

User Pilot

Customer analytics is the cornerstone for making informed decisions, enhancing the user experience, and, ultimately, fostering growth. It’s crucial to stay updated with the latest trends in customer analytics to better understand customers and make the most out of collected data! So, let’s see 8 critical trends you can follow to stay on track with the changes and how you can apply them to achieve product growth.

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5 Interesting Learnings from HashiCorp at ~$600,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So almost every Cloud infrastructure leader has done pretty well at least during these “macro impacted” times. They’ve seen some impacts, but not as many as others in many cases. Everyone has spent the past year managing their budgets more carefully, but the awesome force of simply running more workflows in the Cloud has still pulled growth forward.

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GTM 59: Weekly Active Users Up 33% by Making the Hard Decisions Faster with Melanie Fellay

Sales Hacker

Melanie Fellay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spekit , a just-in-time platform that is transforming how we learn at work. Spekit meets reps with the process guidance, enablement and knowledge they need, right when they need it, in their flow of work to help them be more efficient, drive more revenue and eliminate the friction of change. She’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, Top 100 Female Entrepreneur to watch (Entrepreneur) and has been featured across Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Business

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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3 Social Media Executives Reveal How to Build a Career in Social

Buffer Resources

Social media is still a relatively new field, having risen to prominence in the past two decades. As a result, there still isn’t much of a rule book for people who want to pursue it as a career. Current industry experts like Tom Basgil, Amelia Munday, and Chi Thukra have learned on the job, working their way up the ranks with experimentation and iteration.

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13 A/B Testing Mistakes And How to Fix Them

User Pilot

Are A/B testing mistakes limiting your ability to drive engagement and conversion? You can’t really know until you analyze your process for errors. But here’s a fact: many SaaS companies are going about A/B testing the wrong way. This article discusses 13 common mistakes you should avoid when doing growth experiments. TL;DR A/B testing is a method of comparing a version of a software product, feature, webpage element, or user interface element against a control group to determine if

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In 2023 We Took Advantage Of Our Customers. Do It Again, They’ll Never Forget.

SaaStr

So 2023 was a year where growth proved much harder than before, and many SaaS leaders turned up the screws on existing customers: Large price increases were everywhere We raised prices — without adding more value Customer Success teams turned into upsell teams Customers were threatened to sign long term contracts instead of monthly ones And so on With new net logo growth slowing for many, short term thinking thrived: How Can We Get Even More Money Out of Our Base?

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