Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 30, 2017

Your startup is growing. You suspect you have initial product market fit. Time to hire the first head of each department. Sales, marketing, customer success, engineering, product management. Some founders might have experience or exposure into one of these teams. But rarely do they understand every one well enough to hire the right department chief.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 29, 2017

There’s a simple checklist I use before pressing send on every outreach email.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 30, 2017

The options around assembling tooling to make a sales funnel operate efficiently are numerous and daunting. We’e talked about this quite a bit in the past between this blog and the Mattermark Daily. We thought it’d be great to chat with some founders of companies building sales tools to see how they not only use their own products, but how they use other products and processes as well.

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ReSci

AUGUST 29, 2017

Create revenue generating Price Drop, New Arrivals, or Items Back in Stock emails with our proprietary AI models that will easily find your customers who have a high affinity to an item. Keep in mind, this feature is not the same as our product recommendations! The post Are You Sending Price Drop, New Arrivals, and Back in Stock Emails to The Wrong Customers?

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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2017

I commuted to my first job on a bicycle. With my parent’s help, I bought a lemon yellow second-hand road bike that I pedaled 20 miles each way from 30th and N streets in Georgetown, Washington DC, over bustling Chain Bridge and the languid Potomac to an office park buried in Tyson’s Corner in Virginia. That was my workout each week. Then I moved to California and retired the bike.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 29, 2017

Help People Affected By Hurricane Harvey. Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. We at Mattermark urge you to donate anything you can , whether it’s to the Red Cross or another local or national organization ( the New York Times has a good list of organizations , as well as advice on how to avoid scams ).

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 31, 2017

All-in-one SaaS is a term that’s seen a lot of use in recent months, and is something we’ve discussed a number of times at ChartMogul. But are all-encompassing platforms really the right solution for startups and smaller SaaS businesses? The Coffee Thoughts series on ChartMogul is a place for short thoughts and musings on SaaS industry trends. We welcome you to join the discussion in the comments below!

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A Smart Bear

AUGUST 29, 2017

Top workplace complaints: 1) The way things are 2) Change. — ?????? ????TT (@akannett) June 1, 2015. This plays out in many important ways: Customers demand an improved UX , but they don’t want to learn a new UX. Team members want consistency but don’t want policies. Developers want to be more efficient but don’t want to change how they work.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 29, 2017

If you operate a global business, but only offer customer support in English, you may see higher churn rates in countries where English is not the primary language. In this article, we will analyze whether customers who residing in a non-English speaking country are at greater risk of churning. Adding location attributes to customers. ChartMogul’s native billing system integrations automatically detect customer location information as recorded in the billing system.

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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.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 28, 2017

The Search is Over. It’s been reported that Uber’s board of directors has picked Dara Khosrowshahi to be its new CEO. Mr. Khosrowshahi has been the CEO of Expedia since 2005, building it into the $23 Billion company it is today. You’ve probably read all about this in the major news outlets, but we really recommend Ben Thompson of Stratechery on “ Uber’s New CEO ” From the Operators.

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