For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other VCs off from pursuing the A. After all, the “insider” VC has more information and. Getting Funded Entrepreneur Funding Raising capital seed deals Venture capital

Venture Capital 345

Venture Capital Startup 345

Incredo

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Adapting apps and services to foreign markets is something that many businesses are sleeping on, and it is often the missing link that stops them from really flourishing. That's not an overestimation.

Branding 219

Branding Marketing Business Development 219

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership.

Sales 282

Sales Compensation Forecasting Leadership 282

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Lots of people who you think should be interested in your software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, couldn’t care less. It doesn’t matter that they perfectly fit your “ideal customer” persona. It doesn’t matter that your solution is full of features built especially for them.

Finance 188

Finance Acquisition Pricing Technology 188

The Angel VC

MAY 12, 2018

In last week's post I shared some thoughts about Dropbox and why, although Dropbox is unquestionably one of the most amazing SaaS companies ever built, I am a tad less confident in the company's long-term future than I am in other SaaS leaders such as Salesforce.com, Zendesk, or Shopify.

Retention 208

Retention Subscription Revenue Enterprise 208

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Here are some predictions for 2019 and a review of my thoughts for 2018, many of which were wrong. The M&A market slows meaningfully , especially at the multi-billion dollar level. The recent seasickness in the public markets forces most CEOs adopt a more conservative approach to acquisitions.

Blockchain 198

Blockchain Acquisition Machine Learning Engineering 198

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. Some of them, like InVision and SafetyCulture, seemed to just grow naturally without any help.

B2B 141

B2B Strategy Acquisition Enterprise 141

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS (Net Promoter Score). First, let’s start with the very basics- what is a Net Promoter Score ? Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003.

Churn 119

Churn Metrics Customer Success Branding 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It’s that time of the year again! Time for Sales Hacker’s Annual Top 10 Sales Trends and Predictions for the Future of Sales in 2019. Due to the proliferation of modern sales technology and people’s love of it, I added a new element this time. This new element is, “Companies to watch”.

Trends 113

Trends B2C Sales Machine Learning 113

Inside Intercom

JUNE 15, 2018

There are few issues more important than customer retention when running software-as-a-service businesses. It’s no good acquiring customers for $10, if they only stick around for a month or two.

Retention 114

Retention Trends Data Onboarding 114

For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Matrix Growth Academy – Zero to 100 was an educational event held in San Francisco, aimed at providing B2B Founders with a road-map for how to get from Zero to a repeatable, scalable and profitable growth process that would take them to $100m in revenue. Please find below the primary videos for They have been. Startup Help

B2B 203

B2B Education Revenue Startup 203

Incredo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Does your business have everything it needs? With new demands and even newer technology, it’s much harder for a business to develop its own mobile app or website interface. Finding a good software development team in North America for a reasonable budget is a rare occurrence.

Development 189

Development Mobile Pricing Software 189

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

One of the key elements of any successful relationship is communication — and that happens to be a huge factor in successful sales and marketing interactions, too.

Sales 240

Sales Marketing Revenue Sales Enablement 240

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

APRIL 3, 2018

When the lead generation effort is failing and we’re trying to fix it, we marketing pros usually head right into the weeds. Are there too many characters in the subject lines? Should we add more long-tail keywords? Is the call-to-action button the wrong shade of green?

Social Media 170

Social Media B2B Communication Acquisition 170

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Understanding the mechanics of founder re-ups in financing rounds This post will likely not make me more popular and might offend some people. But if your core beliefs on how business should be done are at stake, you can’t try to win the popularity contest.

Venture Capital 198

Venture Capital Finance Investment Pricing 198

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Reading the news in the past week made me wonder. Just where are we pricing SaaS companies today? The Nasdaq and the S&P have toyed with a bear market. Many stocks are down 10 to 50%. Absolute valuations are one consideration, but let’s understand it at a deeper level.

Pricing 178

Pricing Enterprise Investment Startup 178

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. During this period I’ve learnt more than I ever thought possible about the SaaS business and my personal growth has accelerated with each passing year.

Business 158

Business Churn Headcount Acquisition 158

Think Strategies

MARCH 27, 2018

Cloud Service Intelligently Streamlines the Accounts Payable (AP) Workflow Process. THINKstrategies announced today that Yooz has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award.

Cloud 130

Cloud Consulting Finance Innovation 130

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Sales Tools: Made in Belgium. Tools for sales are flooding the market and the flood seems to increase in strength every year. That said, few know there’s a vibrant community of sales tools and sales tech stack vendors packed together in Belgium. They’re Solving Puzzles in Gent, Belgium.

Sales 102

Sales Onboarding Education Leadership 102

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!)

Sales 112

Sales Leadership SMB Consulting 112

Inside Intercom

MAY 1, 2018

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. But what happens next is far more important. The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding.

Retention 114

Retention Onboarding Churn Management 114

For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below.

Business Model 191

Business Model B2B Product Marketing Metrics 191

Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

SaaS Churn Rate

Startup 166

Startup Churn 166

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 15, 2018

If you’ve ever thought about becoming a lawyer, the path is pretty clear: Get a Bachelor’s degree. Take the LSAT. Earn your JD. Pass the bar. The process may not be easy, but at least it’s laid out.

Sales 237

Sales Revenue Business Communication 237

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2018

I get it. You’ve finally built a working product and now you’re ready to get it out into the market. You want to crank out a press release, put up a website, offer a free trial, execute an email campaign, buy adwords, or do whatever else you can think of or afford. Don’t do it.

Marketing 141

Marketing B2B Communication Acquisition 141

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A few days ago I wrote that there’s more than one path to $100 million. I argued that while it’s awesome to see that some companies are able to get from 0 to $100 million in ARR in 7-8 years or even less, trying to grow that fast may not be the best choice for most companies. That raises the question: What are your chances of growing a little slower and still achieving massive success?

Revenue 165

Revenue Subscription Data Scaling 165

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you have one marketing dollar to spend on your startup’s growth, should you spend it on acquiring a new customer or on expanding an existing customer? Mining the existing customer base for customer expansion seems very logical.

Acquisition 179

Acquisition Scaling Marketing Product Marketing 179

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

AUGUST 28, 2018

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is around building a sales enablement strategy and what that might look like. While each company, context and industry is different, I believe that there are some fundamentals that should form the blueprint of any sales enablement strategy.

Sales Enablement 151

Sales Enablement Strategy Sales Communication 151

Think Strategies

MARCH 22, 2018

Salesforce.com’s definitive agreement to acquire MuleSoft for approximately $6.5 billion represents the company’s biggest acquisition yet and a calculated move to consolidate it’s position as the leading enterprise software company in the Cloud.

Data 130

Data Enterprise Cloud Acquisition 130

Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting.

Sales 99

Sales Pricing B2B B2C 99

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The path to sales enlightenment requires continuous self-learning, but there’s a real problem. Salespeople are BUSY. With the insane rise of text based content, we understand that not all salespeople have time to sit and read articles.

Interviewing 109

Interviewing Social Media Sales B2B 109

Inside Intercom

MAY 14, 2018

There are few functions where the phrase “the more things change, the more they stay the same” rings truer than in marketing. For instance, the fundamentals of good marketing haven’t changed: crisp writing, a compelling story, strong brand, and of course, a great product to market.

Marketing 114

Marketing Social Media Advertising Entertainment 114

For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~385 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey! Thank you also to David Spitz (@dspitz) and the team at KBCM Technology Group for their. Startup Help SaaS SaaS business Sales & Marketing Machine Sales and Marketing

Technology 174

Technology Business Startup Sales 174

Incredo

AUGUST 31, 2018

SaaS Development

Development 166

Development 166

InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

During a recent analysis of the available “operations” jobs on LinkedIn, we discovered a significant number of “revenue operations” jobs — 59,110 to be exact. It sparked the question, “Is revenue operations just another word for sales operations, or are the roles fundamentally different?”.

Revenue 240

Revenue Sales Data Metrics 240

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

JUNE 1, 2018

If you’ve ever sat through a marketing agency’s pitch or seen an episode of Mad Men, you’d think that marketing is all about talking – pushing out clever messages so that people will buy whatever it is that you’re selling. Not exactly.

Interviewing 141

Interviewing Marketing Social Media Acquisition 141

Ryan Berg

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Want to drive more search traffic to your SaaS? In this case study, we’ll step outside the usual content marketing tactics most SaaS companies use. And look at how Zapier leverages SEO to drive millions of high intent searchers to their product every month.

Strategy 97

Strategy Content Marketing Marketing 97