The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2015

In my last post I wrote about the problem with month-over-month growth rates. One of the issues I talked about was that when your revenue plan numbers are based on a constant m/m percentage growth figure (i.e. you're projecting to grow exponentially), your short-term objectives are likely too low relative to your longer-term goals. As an example, I showed a (fictional) SaaS startup that wants to grow from $1,000 in MRR to ~ $85,000 in MRR within one year.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When I was at Google, we worked with a user experience team frequently to help us design changes to the AdWords front end. After having reviewed our designs within our product team for weeks, we often thought the design was complete and foolproof. But we were consistently proven wrong by the UX team whose work surfaced face-slapping oversights. At UserOnboarding , Samuel Hulick has taken this approach with more than 40 different on-the-mark and a bit irreverent UX critiques of many top internet

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CloseSaaS

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Want to sell to large organizations but don't know how to navigate the complex sales cycle? Closing enterprise deals can be a lucrative way of growing your SaaS business—or a long, treacherous process, leaving you with nothing to show for it.

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ReSci

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Recent news that Gilt Groupe is looking to be acquired by Hudson’s Bay Co., the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, is a sobering reminder that the flash sales model…. The post The future is clear for flash sales sites that can’t keep customers appeared first on ReSci.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The fundraising markets have infused more cash into startups in 2015 than in any year since 2001. But, the venture backed IPO markets touched five year lows and whispers of a bubble have become a meme in the past six months. What’s really going on? And should that impact when founders start companies? No one can time the financial markets. If you can, you should be trading stocks, bonds and options and retiring very soon.

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ReSci

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Holidays are a good time to understand what your customers really value, and bring the same practices into the new year. Despite being trained for many years to go in-store on Black Friday, this year customers showed a clear preference for shopping online. Despite the success of eCommerce…. The post 3 ways to keep customers coming back after the holidays are over appeared first on ReSci.

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