Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

In the language of the land, the protocol is often called a smart contract. Smart contracts are open-source. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses that span attributes like speed, privacy, cost to write transactions, and developer friendliness. Protocols must decide which chain(s) they will support.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Let’s deep dive into how combining innovative demand gen strategies with a modern tech stack and specific team setup can provide a winning formula for scaling B2B growth, even with low budgets of greater than a 2x burn multiple. First, they built a product advocates team instead of a traditional inbound SDR team. No humans involved.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2018

A viable and proven option is handing over some or all of your sales efforts to outsourced sales professionals. It’s true that outsourcing your sales to a third-party provider can yield favorable results. There are many outsourcing companies, but which of them can actually hold a sales quota and get results?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Keyword research and industry reports are two ways to track market trends and identify arising opportunities. What are examples of market gaps?

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Since its debut in the 1980s, no-code has changed the game when it comes to developing applications—and launching them at speed. Example of Panintelligence dashboard) This visual approach to software development—lets you build applications and processes with no or little coding/expertise. We're very much involved in no and low-code.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

So what’s the key to having happy developers? A joyful, transparent development experience. As we keep building out our own platform so teams can customize Intercom for their own needs, we’ve loved getting to know the great group of developers and partners building apps for our customers and for themselves.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Last year, much of enterprise genAI spend unsurprisingly came from “innovation” budgets and other typically one-time pools of funding. In 2024, however, many leaders are reallocating that spend to more permanent software line items; fewer than a quarter reported that genAI spend will come from innovation budgets this year.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 5, 2024

Publishers can derive a deeper knowledge of their audience by analyzing reading habits, engagement levels, and demographic trends. However, looking toward the future of publishing, it is evident that the development of a subscription operations is far from finished. How can SubscriptionFlow help publishers deal with these pain points?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The book doesn’t argue that society should trend towards entrepreneurialism, it presents a matter-of-fact case that it is doing so inexorably, for both better and worse. It But was it already out the window anyway with the steady erosion of the social contract between employer and employee? And

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Learning & Development. The post The SaaS Trends You Need to Know for 2020 appeared first on OpenView. What do you think? Product Managers Will Own a KPI.

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User Pilot

APRIL 25, 2024

Through the common practice of conducting market research, companies gather essential information that enables them to make informed decisions and develop products that resonate with consumers. Objective insights from market research help avoid costly mistakes and meet consumer needs by identifying trends and changes in the market.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

Looking for the best no-code SaaS tools to build innovative solutions and improve your product management workflows? No-code development platforms: Webflow – best no-code app builder for landing pages and websites. Here are some of the best no-code tools for app development: 1.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This includes developing and implementing technology strategies, managing IT infrastructure and resources, and staying up-to-date on the latest technological developments and trends. This includes identifying new technologies and innovations that can help the company achieve its goals and stay competitive.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This article will cover the reasons to give pause before undertaking the complex development of a Customer Success platform. . The role of Customer Success in keeping SaaS companies alive is too substantial to wing it by relying on a homegrown solution that accounts for a fraction of an outsourced product’s functionality.

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Casey Accidental

APRIL 26, 2021

Assuming the company tries to align all of the development functions, let’s talk about a few ways they can be aligned. One pillar is the innovation pillar working on new products. The initiative structure allows PM’s and engineers to flex between innovation, growth, scaling, etc. Organization by Type of Product Work.

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ProfitWell

JULY 14, 2020

Today on Recur Now, I'm sharing how you can build solid commitment with your users, all in the name of annual contracts. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Annual contracts = commitment. Annual contracts leave customers with only one purchasing decision per year—versus twelve. To read more about annual contract value ?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

As far as I know, these solutions initially focused on tedious or redundant tasks — from sales prospecting to contract signing. Outsource the sales development process. Develop sales people through training. Manage contracts. Outsourcing the Sales Development Process. Find the right targets.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Following the trends from the last few years, we fully expect to see an acceleration in the number of Customer Success leaders who join the ranks of the C-suite over the course of 2022. He is a social media influencer and thought leader on customer success, innovation, and value-based technology trends. Follow Chris on LinkedIn.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

All of these features collectively help you give personalized care to your customers to maximize the length of their contracts. This leads to the question: How do you get to an ARPU of $100 or a contract length of 12 months? Unfortunately, you can’t know the contract length of a customer until they quit.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

This company even partners with the top email marketing software brands like MailChimp, Litmus, and Campaign Monitor to drive innovation in the email space. Due to the always-evolving nature of trends and modern strategies applicable to email marketing, top companies must keep pace with these changes to deliver the best work.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2024

However, the SaaS sector is fiercely competitive right now, demanding innovative products, effective demand-generation strategies, and marketing approaches that transform traffic into leads. Developing content assets, including blogs, video scripts, case studies, testimonials 2. Innovative demand generation strategies 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Here are some examples: Some industries are notoriously hard to reach, e.g. content marketing isn’t as effective for dentists as it is for developers. John Barrows, Sales Trainer.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

It’s been a trend for a while, but I predict it will only accelerate in the next year. Equipping your CSM team with things like configurable in-product guidance can often solve customer requests while freeing your product and development teams to introduce more innovative new products. Dmytro Okunyev , Founder, Chanty.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Cross functional management was attempted but often not effective. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. Chief Performance Officer.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. And finally, before that, Amit was the founder and CEO at SparkThis, an outsource marketing and sales service for cloud companies. Just to test it and develop it.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So what’s happening right now and trends, and then we’ll do a little speculation about the far future and where to those trends go over time. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. Talk about what the near term trends are. ” Right?

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Decades of innovation up the stack seem to have largely left these teams behind, and there are at least a few sub-categories where modern players can capture the $Bs spent on legacy or in-house solutions: 1/ Hardware engineering OS and design Iteration and velocity are challenging when you have interlinked hardware and software problems.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To capture and quantify this movement, Tackle developed the first of its kind State of Cloud Marketplaces Report with insights from Bessemer’s Byron Deeter, Bob Goodman and Mike Droesh. Marketplaces offer a better experience, simplify budgeting, require fewer one-off contracts and help enterprises mitigate the risk of cloud commitments.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. It’s hard to know whether that’s some sort of broad based trend or whether it’s very specific to the mechanics of that product. We started development in early 2004. It got you back in the game this hyper growth.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. The challenges of global supply chains and the global competition for resources, particularly the US, China, but this is really a trend happening everywhere. Well, in a booming market, executives are paid to innovate. Why is financing hard right now?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

? ?. It’s hard to find a hotter trend in Silicon Valley than the idea of turning your product into a platform. Turning your product into a platform that developers can build on is a great way to tap into new audiences and expand your market share. So those are developer tools for sure. Those are big amazing companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 18, 2020

Now we’re signing multimillion dollar contracts. Eoghan is a trend setter and a creative tastemaker – a whole generation of startups have been inspired by Intercom – our products, our design, our marketing. Innovating and re-inventing with our products. We started at 50 bucks a month. We hired a thousand incredible humans.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz: Long story short, we built a pretty interesting and innovative data platform that allowed us to ingest first and third party data signals from a variety of sources, and systems, and distill that to individual and anonymous customer profiles, and then connect that to our ad server really fast.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

There are more CS job postings than there are qualified candidates to fill them (see point above)—a hiring trend predating the great resignation, which has only intensified demand. It requires them to spend less capital to get innovative and risky projects kickstarted. Let’s say they have an annual contract. I was lucky.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

There are more CS job postings than there are qualified candidates to fill them (see point above)—a hiring trend predating the great resignation, which has only intensified demand. It requires them to spend less capital to get innovative and risky projects kickstarted. Let’s say they have an annual contract. I was lucky.

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