ProfitWell
MAY 21, 2020
We are living in unprecedented times. Advice is coming from every direction and it's difficult to know who and what to believe. Here at ProfitWell, we believe in data because data doesn't lie. We look at the numbers to help guide our decisions, turning advice into tangible action items. We've been working around the clock to develop an index displaying MRR and growth trends across SaaS companies.
Groove HQ
MAY 18, 2020
You don’t need dedicated resources or a team of engineers to execute growth hacks. Here are 5 you can implement on your own. I had been emailing back and forth with a reader. He asked me for advice about getting traffic, and I suggested he start a blog to attract readers. His immediate reaction was […]. The post 5 Easy Growth Hacks You Can Implement Today Without a Developer appeared first on Groove Blog.
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SaaStr
MAY 21, 2020
It took me a little while to see activation rates as literally one of the 3-4 most important metrics in SaaS, but it probably is. I started to track activation rates at a lot of start-ups I work with, and I saw numbers that shocked me. I often say 60% or so activation rates 30 days in. Think about that. That means after all the time and money put into building your product, marketing your product, trialing your product, demo’ing your product, selling your product, closing the deal, cele
Kellblog
MAY 19, 2020
In prior posts I have discussed how to make a proper sales bookings productivity model and how to use the concept of ramped rep equivalents (RREs) in sales analytics and modeling. When it comes to setting drivers for both, corporate leaders tend to lean towards benchmarks and industry norms for the values. For example, two such common norms are: Setting steady-state (or terminal) productivity at $1,200K of new ARR per rep in enterprise SaaS businesses.
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!
SaaStr
MAY 16, 2020
A very curious thing has happened during this very sad and stressful time: the Era of the SaaS Decacorn has firmly arrived.? @Wix ? market cap is now over $10 billion. Amazing! ? @BessemerVP ? pic.twitter.com/giUuRFJS5A. — Amit Karp (@amitkarp) May 15, 2020. When I started as a SaaS CEO, there was only one SaaS unicorn: Salesforce. Its market cap at the time was $2.6 billion.
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Intercom, Inc.
MAY 20, 2020
As customer success managers, we wear many hats. We need to stay on top of market trends and product updates, all while making sure our customers become wildly successful. During times of rapid change, juggling everything on our plates, along with everything on our customers’ plates, can feel like a herculean task. Just as we’re adapting our business strategy and plans , so are our customers – and they’re looking to us for guidance.
Totango
MAY 22, 2020
Technology, as they say, is the future. In 1995, 9 percent of people reported that they telecommuted or had done so in the past. In 2016, that number had risen to 37 percent. That number was already expected to keep growing, but recent events have caused telecommuting to spike as employees switch to working from home in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.
OPEXEngine
MAY 22, 2020
Here’s a shout out to Dave Kellogg’s Key SaaS Metrics podcast, recently released on Aznaur Midov’s SaaShimi series. Dave does a terrific job explaining the current state of the art on important SaaS metrics. The podcast is an excellent SaaS Metrics 101 listen even for experienced SaaS finance experts. Dave was most recently CEO of Host Analytics, previously CEO of MarkLogic, senior executive at SalesForce and before that at Business Objects.
SaaStr
MAY 17, 2020
Q: What don’t they tell you about venture capital firms? A few things that aren’t obvious when you raise venture capital: Your VC partner may leave. There has been much more transition in VC firms in the past 5+ years. Partners leave to found their own firms in particular all the time now. Non-partners leave to join hot firms. You are stuck with the fund as an investor forever.
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The Daily Egg
MAY 19, 2020
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Tom Tunguz
MAY 19, 2020
On June 3rd at 10 am, SaaS Office Hours will welcome Hollie Wegman , former CMO at Segment. Hollie has a wealth of experience as a marketer. She’s marketed many iconic companies including Salesforce, Mulesoft, and Envoy. During our conversation, we’ll talk about how to market technical products to developers, how to scale marketing teams, and how to develop the right portfolio of marketing approaches at every stage of the business.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 19, 2020
As a product-led company, we have put great thought, time, and energy into how we organize our product teams. . After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. “We have written a lot about the alchemy of great product teams, the ingredients that make them
SaaStr
MAY 20, 2020
Our recent SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap was the first time I’ve had a chance to be a participant at a SaaStr event in a long, long time. Usually I personally have to do too much planning, moderating, etc. I learned a lot! ?? So I thought I’d share my learnings from the sessions as we put them up on YouTube. My next set of 10 Learnings is from Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, and his investor and board member, Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners.
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.
The Daily Egg
MAY 19, 2020
Choosing an online payroll service is both easier and more complicated than ever before. On the plus side, there is no shortage of options, which increases the likelihood of finding the perfect service for your business. Conversely, with so many services to compare, it’s not always easy to make a final decision. With our help, […]. The post Best Online Payroll Services appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 18, 2020
Here are three little puzzles about infinity. Here’s a short blue line and a red line that is 3x longer than the blue line. Let me show you how there are just as many points in the blue line as there are in the red line. Let’s make a right triangle with the blue and red lines, and then draw a green line to connect them. I’ll draw a line connecting a point on the blue line to a point on the red line.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 21, 2020
? ? In our quest to make the most of support automation, we’ve found three uses that really optimize its potential. The first is routing: directing a customer’s question to the right team. Next is assisting: gathering information from a customer so a human support agent has everything they need by the time they’re stepping in to help. Finally, there’s problem-solving: answering questions faster and more effectively than human agents can.
SaaStr
MAY 19, 2020
Q: What Strategies Are Working Now? Many of us are struggling now; a minority are “Covid Beneficiaries”; and most are somewhere in the middle in SaaS. Parts of your businesses are struggling, but other parts are doing OK, and some segments are even doing well. What are some strategies that are working now in this new environment? 5 thoughts to maybe think about: Real Free Editions.
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The Daily Egg
MAY 20, 2020
Google Analytics is one of the best web analytics tools on the market today. More than 50 million websites worldwide trust this powerful and robust application. Any website can use Google Analytics to get a better understanding about what visitors are doing on the site. This free tool makes it easy to track and analyze […]. The post Google Analytics – Beginners Guide appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 19, 2020
On June 3rd at 10 am, SaaS Office Hours will welcome Hollie Wegman , former CMO at Segment. Hollie has a wealth of experience as a marketer. She’s marketed many iconic companies including Salesforce, Mulesoft, and Envoy. During our conversation, we’ll talk about how to market technical products to developers, how to scale marketing teams, and how to develop the right portfolio of marketing approaches at every stage of the business.
FastSpring
MAY 21, 2020
One of our core values as a company is that our success is entirely based on the success of our customers. As such, being recognized externally for our commitment to supporting our customers is an incredible honor. We’re proud to have earned this recognition from the American Business Awards® with the Bronze Stevie Award award for ‘Support Team of the Year’ in 2020.
SaaStr
MAY 20, 2020
I did a version of this Old Me-Young Me post in 2018. I thought it could bear with an update, given the unique times we are in. This is the conversation I would have had, wished I could have had, with my younger SaaS CEO self — jason. Young Me, 2011 : $100m ARR seems so very far from our $10m ARR today. Very far from today. Old Me, 2020 : It does feel that way.
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 Daily Egg
MAY 22, 2020
Heatmaps are visual reports that represent recorded clicks on different areas of a web page. The information provided in a heatmap is extremely valuable to anyone who owns and operates a website. You can use a heatmap to determine which areas of your website are getting the most amount of clicks. This visual data makes […]. The post 10 Best Heatmaps for WordPress Plugins appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Neil Patel
MAY 19, 2020
As you can see from the screenshot above, I’ve driven 30 million visitors to my website from SEO. Technically it’s more, but who’s counting. What’s funny, though, is I barely look at my traffic, even as Google continually rolls out algorithm updates. I know that sounds contradictory because if you are an SEO, why wouldn’t you obsess about traffic, right?
FastSpring
MAY 19, 2020
Millions of online shoppers share their personal information with businesses each and every day. While this information allows ecommerce merchants to further customize the consumer buying experience, it does come with quite a bit of responsibility for merchants to ensure the privacy and security of this personal data. Recent high-profile security breaches have had consumers asking for tighter regulations for protecting their personal data.
SaaStr
MAY 17, 2020
Many of the top SaaStr videos of the week are the same as last week, e.g. Mark Suster, Jeff Lawson, Stewart Butterfield, so I thought I’d highlight the 10 most-watched videos of the week … that weren’t also in the Top 10 last week ?? So you can catch up a bit when you’ve had enough of Netflix. #1Sales Mistakes that Can Kill Your SaaS Business & How to Avoid Them (a SaaStr Classic). #2: The Definitive Founders Playbook for Building a Dream Marketing Team with DropBox
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Unbounce
MAY 19, 2020
The spread of COVID-19 has changed the daily lives and habits of millions of people worldwide, and businesses across most industries are scrambling to adapt. Brick and mortar retailers, restaurants, and hotels—just to name a few impacted sectors—are hurting from a stretch of time without customers. Some could end up closing their doors for good. Other companies have seen a higher demand for their products and services.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 22, 2020
Pandemics are predictable; what’s not predictable is the intensity, or the precise timing of arrival. That’s where early detection — not just rapid warning (as with something like Google Flu Trends back in the day), or even delayed warnings (as … The post a16z Podcast: Pandemics — Early Detection, Networks, Spreaders appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Sales Hacker
MAY 21, 2020
When inbound sales and marketing works, it’s great. It’s easy, it scales well, but by definition it puts a lot of the process out of your hands. That can lead to a lot of opportunities for things to break down and for buyers to fall through the cracks. I’ve worked with many companies throughout my career, and there tends to be six common, tactical mistakes when it comes to inbound process: They don’t have sales and marketing alignment and accountability documented in a comprehensive SLA.
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