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How Should I Think About My SaaS Startup's Burn Rate

Tom Tunguz

If I made a word cloud of the terms in 2016 that dominated Startupland, burn would be among them and perhaps the largest. On the contrary, burn would be absent from the 2015 list, replaced by unicorn. Starting in the end of 2015, Public companies have markedly shifted the way they manage their businesses pushing toward cash flow positive and net income positive.

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Email editor improvements & squashing more bugs

CloseSaaS

We've made improvements to the email editor and how you create email templates. We've also fixed many of the most annoyingbugs in Close.

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The Data-Driven Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to Shop.Org

ReSci

It’s that time of year again, and we at ReSci are gearing up for another exciting Shop.org! We’ll be heading to Dallas in a couple of weeks to learn about the newest trends, topics, and everything retail and digital commerce – and hopefully chow down. The post The Data-Driven Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to Shop.Org appeared first on ReSci.

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Uber for Truckers: Cargomatic and the Perils of B2B SaaS Marketplaces

Software Platform Consulting

Sunday’s Business Insider had a great article on, Cargomatic, a company promising (as do many others) to be the “Uber for Truckers” By that, Cargomatic means it will match shippers with goods to ship with truckers with excess capacity. On paper it is a great idea in a huge market: less than truckload (LTL) shipping. As with all B2B SaaS marketplaces, however, the challenge is not the total available market, it is solving the “chicken and the egg” adoption problem

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Startup Best Practices 22 - Explicit Risk Bundles and Mitigations

Tom Tunguz

In Startups are Risk Bundles , Leo Polovets outlines the risks startups face as they grow. In particular, Leo identifies common mistakes when addressing that parcel of peril. Addressing minor risk by spending time and effort on low priority or low impact risk a common failure mode for companies. The business isn’t focused on the most critical issues.

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