SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Q: There are a lot of examples of VCs taking advantage of entrepreneurs. What are some examples of entrepreneurs taking advantage of VCs? I can name a few. But, it mostly comes into play in smaller scale outcomes and startups that have only raised a round or two: In a small acquisition, not paying investors 1x or 2x or whatever the documents state.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
SEO services can help you optimize your website’s reach using keywords, targeted advertisement, and personalized content development. After reviewing dozens of providers. The post Best SEO Services Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux. We surveyed 500 B2B sales reps in the United States and found: 77% of respondents are struggling in the early stages of the sales cycle. 96% of reps feel they need supplementary help in their daily
Totango
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. Here we’ll show you how to use customer success playbooks to support your CS strategy: We’ll define the customer success playbook and clarify
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
The SaaS Garage
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Leading global ESG firm to acquire SaaS company to enhance risk management offering and accelerate Scope 3 emissions monitoring and reporting solutions. Chicago & Munich, September 13, 2022 ( businesswire ) — Sphera, a leading global provider of ESG performance and risk management software, data and consulting services, today. announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire riskmethods, an award-winning software company specializing in supply chain risk management (SCRM).
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IT World
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
A new report from tech-focused recruiting marketplace Hired.com has found that over the last two and a half years, there has been a global increase in salaries across nearly all tech roles. According to Hired.com’s 2022 State of Tech Salaries: Navigating an Uncertain Hiring Market report, salaries for tech candidates remain at an all-time high, with remote salaries outpacing local salaries in most markets.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Design partners, or the first few users of a company’s software, are often a key part of the early software development process. By providing valuable feedback on everything from product functionality to user experience, to pricing and packaging, the … The post A Framework for Finding A Design Partner appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaS Metrics
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
The world is changing and developing every second, and with every moment, more and more information is created. As a result, computer systems accumulate and process vast amounts of data, which not every server can technically handle. Powerful graphics cards, or GPU cards, come to the rescue. A dedicated server with GPU. Read more. The post GPU Servers for High Performance Supercomputing first appeared on SaaS Metrics.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Today, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Figma for $20b , valuing the business at 50x current ARR, the highest multiple paid for any software company of scale. Congratulations to team Figma on building their impressive business. After the correction earlier this year, public valuation multiples had reset to those of 2017. That year, Cisco acquired AppDynamics for 17x trailing revenue.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
As this gets published, I’ve just about finished giving my talks at 2022 SaaStr Annual. And thank you so much to everyone that came, or watched the streaming. It really means a lot. And one of my themes was that while the markets are down, I mean way down — the best in SaaS are still growing at jaw-dropping rates. I put together this slide: No doubt, some categories are still recovering from a Covid Hangover.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
No one likes dealing with customer complaints, but getting it wrong can make or break a business. In fact, 83% of customers. The post How To Respond To Customer Complaints appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Explore the top 5 sale coaching models used by high-performing sales leaders to maximize your return on investment and help reps retain sales training knowledge. Curious about cold calling best practices? In this post, we’re sharing our favorite cold calling methods, on-call best practices, and must-haves for effective cold calling. The post Cold Calling Best Practices appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Ten years ago today, I wrote a post titled “ Choosing market segments on customer profitability. ” How healthy are the business’s underling customers? Today, that question matters more because of the recession than at any point in the last decade. Selling to very profitable customers benefits a startup. Account executives can charge a highly profitable company more than one without much money.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Are the Danger Signs a Startup Isn’t Going to Work Out? Let me share my list. It’s more about things I worry about after : Founders’ understanding of market doesn’t get deeper. I really worry when 9–12 months later, the founders do not understand their market better. Especially, when they are a bit too arrogant about how they will kill the leaders — when they don’t really understand why they win.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
One of the best and worst things about the Internet is that everything on it is there forever. This becomes a problem. The post How to Remove Unwanted Search Results From Google appeared first on The Daily Egg.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. That includes: A global focus. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Professional moderation. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Jeff Koser joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how B2B sales organizations can not only survive an economic downturn but use it to their advantage. The post How To Sell Better In An Economic Downturn appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Dear SaaStr: I am a startup founder that writes extensive monthly report to investors. We are also doing weekly meetings, are they asking for too much of my time? Yes, that’s too much. Some rough rules: For every 1% of a company an investor owns, they get one meeting / Zoom a year until you are at scale. This includes both board meetings and informal coffee meetings.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Bluevine is a financial technology company servicing more than 450,000 customers that focuses on banking solutions and loans for small businesses. With. The post Bluevine Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
It’s hard enough to guide a company through a period of heavy inflation or during a recession. But it becomes much more difficult when they’re occurring at the same time. This is stagflation — and economists are predicting a period of stagflation to last into 2024. You may already be thinking about ways to reduce your expenses and shift your overall growth strategy.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
While Elon Musk is working on taking humans to Mars, the way people and businesses move money internationally has not changed in decades. Whereas we can now tap our credit cards to pay for domestic goods and services, making a … The post It’s All About the Money (Movement): Simplifying Cross-Border Payments appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
So Gitlab is the latest SaaS and Cloud leader to do what seems almost impossible. To grow even faster as it scales. At $250m in ARR, it was growing a stunning 69%. Fast forward to today, at $400m in ARR, it’s now growing even faster, at 75% year-over-year. Wow. Just Wow. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. GitLab still has Free and Cheap editions, but the real growth is all in $100k+ ACV accounts.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Email marketing still has one of the highest ROI of any marketing type, which means choosing the right email marketing service is. The post ActiveCampaign Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Sparktoro
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
On November 10th, we’re running SparkToro’s first-ever marketing summit: SparkTogether. It’s live. It WON’T be recorded (because our presenters are sharing confidential numbers and information). And we’d love to have you there. For details and tickets, check out the SparkTogether 2022 Event Page, or read on for more background.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent ; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on the … The post The New Learning Economy: It’s Time To Build in Education appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Are the 5 Things Every Founder Should Know In the Early Days? My list: Slow it down if you don’t have a great co-founder. Another idea will come, but it’s almost impossible to thrive without an amazing co-founder. More here. You always need about 25% more than your raise. So always raise 25% more than you think you need, even in an angel round.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Sendinblue and Mailchimp are both popular email marketing options with extensive features. They both make it easier to reach your audience with. The post Sendinblue vs. Mailchimp appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
A slight raise of the eyebrow, folded arms, an inviting smile – face-to-face conversations are a lot more than a simple exchange of words. When people talk, the majority of what is being communicated isn’t in the words we use, but rather in non-verbal cues like body language, gestures, and tone of voice that help us clarify the intention of the speaker and give us a bit more context into the conversation.
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