SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Lessons from the Best & Worst Deals (00:05:03) To succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, startups need an ultra-committed binary team, especially two co-founders with an insane level of commitment. The best CTOs have built great software, even at early stages.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. But in the world of enterprise SaaS, it’s not accurate. Today’s enterprises, by definition, are complex.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Luckily, data analysis software can seriously simplify data analysis—provided you choose the right one. How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? The product usage analytics feature in WalkMe gives companies complete visibility of employee software usage patterns. This can help in gauging software adoption , detecting shadow IT, and optimizing the tech stack for better ROI. To improve the ROI of your software. WalkMe Pricing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

More on that here: The $2 Million Dollar Man/Woman: How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team. The human element matters even more in sales and customer success in the age of software eating everything. Now some bonus tips: Build an enterprise-only sales team. You need human beings to do this. Just do it all.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Abhinav Asthana , founder and CEO of Postman , knows that journey very well, having started Postman as a mere side project in 2012, only to launch it as an enterprise platform almost a decade later. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. Very excited to talk to you today about building consumer grade products for the enterprise. Want to see more content like this?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Yet, in the software world, many customers are treated like that baby. Let’s consider a typical scenario: A large enterprise invests in a new software solution. The sales team excels at highlighting the product’s business benefits and closes the deal. We’ve done all we can. Enjoy your life!” Everyone celebrates.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Bad startups are feature addicts who pile feature upon feature atop a deteriorating architecture, creating an Augean Stables of technical debt. Startups are about people.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. Software demand is softening. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old. “Look, here’s enterprise software. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT .

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Consider the difference between self-serve/product-led (PLG) models versus more traditional enterprise sales models. But, even the most firmly entrenched (and highly successful) PLG company will likely reach a point in its evolution when additional growth requires the addition of enterprise sales in some form.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. Secret one.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

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Frontegg

APRIL 5, 2021

Two-factor authentication gives developers the freedom to implement a variety of options to act as a second layer of security. Developers face many challenges while implementing a secure and user-friendly authentication system. One that comes to mind right off the bat is the dreaded weak password. 2FA or MFA? Image Source.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Lessons learned from nine months in enterprise sales [10:18]. We’re talking with Callie Moriarty, an enterprise account executive at 6 River Systems, which is software that manages robotics platforms that help pack e-commerce shipments. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Head to outreach.io/saleshacker.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. ease of use.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Promoting security awareness and education.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Promoting security awareness and education.

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Casey Accidental

MAY 27, 2021

Every engineer, designer and product manager on the team should be involved in defining the problem and the solution. What this means though is that initial releases will never have everything teams want. Product development projects always have very high opportunity cost. Every key result should be outcome based.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Sales , also known as “sales/outbound,” when a quota-carrying salesrep does their own prospecting, typically found in named-account territory models, and develops an opportunity themselves. Say you’ve just created an RSI alliances team and want them generating 10% of oppties. Attribution issues (i.e.,

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Also, it helps you make data-driven product development decisions instead of relying on guesswork. Based on the insights, you can inform your future product development. A comprehensive customer needs analysis can help you make data-driven decisions for product design and development. Book a demo now to get started.

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