TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it.

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The Daily Egg

MAY 23, 2021

Looking for a reliable webcasting service to take care of your presentations with ease? In this guide, we’ve researched a number of different webcasting tools on all sides of the spectrum to present you with the best options. Though there are quite a few out there to choose from, we’ve got you covered. In the […].

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Presented By: Nick Mehta – CEO – Gainsight – @nrmehta. Presented By: Maria Pergolino – CMO – ActiveCampaign – @inboundmarketer. Presented By: Mukesh Mirchandani – Vice President, Global Field Solution Engineering – Freshworks. Presented By: . Chloe Stewart – CRO Pilot.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At SaaStr Annual, Tomasz Tunguz presented the results of their survey, along with a great story of a public company CRO who had deployed AI SDRs and generated a ton of pipeline … but no closed deals. But is it working yet, these AI SDRs? That was the overall result of their survey.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Presented By: Henrique Dubugras – CEO – Brex – @hdubugras. Presented By: Aaron Levie – CEO – Box – @levie. Presented By: Anique Drumright – VP of Product – Loom – @aniqued. Presented By: Tamar Yehoshua – CPO – Slack – @TYehoshua. Video: HE RE.

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The Daily Egg

AUGUST 21, 2020

Big data presents an unprecedented level of insight into your […]. Everything you do online leaves a digital trail. Which is cool and all… but what does that mean for business owners, digital marketers, bloggers, and data engineers? It’s a massive opportunity. The post Best Data Visualization Tools appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2020

You should already know most of what your team presents. It’s usually a great set of slides for you and your VPs to present from, that everyone has already put a ton of work into … without having to do a lot of new work. After all, you already presented your board slides just a week or two ago before.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2021

In preparing for a presentation at next week’s Saastr Build conference, I reviewed this S-1 analysis for DataDog that I had published a few years ago. A 20% delta in net dollar retention (NDR) may not seem like much, just a trifle, but make no mistake, it’s massive.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The SaaS applications present insights and queue workflows and help their users achieve their goals as normal, using the data from the CDW. Modern SaaS applications will present materialized views from the CDW. Data arrives from various systems, is transformed, and stored in Snowflake.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2021

Have Your VPs Present — and Present More Than You — at Board Meetings. Make sure each board meeting has sections for every functional area — and have the owner present, not you. Recycle your Board Meeting Presentations as Company Meetings. And update them everytime you are together. This really works.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2021

Now first, this trick requires you have your VPs present at board meetings. But if you do, make sure each VP presents for 10 minutes at least. A good/great VP presents the state of their team at the first board meeting, and how they are levelling it up. And of course, that you have board or at least investor meetings at all.

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The Daily Egg

JULY 13, 2021

Google Analytics can present all of this data and more to you right out of your WordPress dashboard. Collecting important data such as how much traffic you have, where your visitors are coming from, and which pages are performing well can help you to improve your website’s attraction for users. All you need is a […].

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

By forcing each functional head to present vs goals at each investor meeting … they’ll sweat it. VPs Should All Present at Your Board / Investor Meetings. To make investor or board meetings help you as CEO, each VP needs to present for at least 15 minutes. It works. #2. Related to the prior two points.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

They not only explain all the key competition, but optimistically but honestly present the whitespace where the startup can and is still winning. And the best CEOs are really good at explaining not just the present, but also the future. Every VC knows every space changes over time. That change creates the opportunity for new winners.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

I delivered a presentation at the end of the day that I’ll share here. Entitled 5 Data Trends You Should Know, the presentation covers the major trends we observe in the data world. If one had doubts that cloud data lakes are a strategic area for many in the data ecosystem, those figures should quash them.

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The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 2, 2022

You get a modern interface with easily installable plugins presented in a. Atom and Visual Studio Code offer similar HTML editing experiences. The post Atom vs. Visual Studio Code appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2023

I remember the very first time I had to present to a Fancy Board Meeting. Most of us present better when we’re standing. Make your presentation shorter & tighter. Try to distill any presentation 5–7 slides, or maybe even 1. Even if that means keeping other things out of the presentation. It’s real.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

And if it continues, we should expect the IPO, the direct listing, and special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs) to present compelling financing options to later stage founders. In software for at least the last few years, the public market premium is back after a multi-decade hiatus.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 23, 2021

I love seeing how they present both side-by-side. I also love how this chart is presented, and it’s what so many of us really see with NRR of 110%+. It’s great to see it presented this way: #3. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. 98% Renewal Rate, 106% NRR. Not just NRR, but the core dollar-base renewal rate.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That bias is especially present in unstructured interviews where social skills & in particular the ability to establish rapport influences the outcome. Adam Grant delimited the types of interviews with the greatest predictive power. The biggest challenge in interviews: interviewers try to hire themselves.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Then, they have to present a dif to those goals at each meeting. A board meeting presentation is the best way. You can only push the team so hard to hit your monthly, quarterly and annual goals before you break them. They’ll worry, squirm, and hustle in slightly different ways than they will with you.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Average analytics blogs present data in a dry and monotone way. The contents there, but you dont feel any kind of enjoyment, motivation, or excitement. The post The 12 Analytics Blogs Every True Pro Follows appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2022

Most importantly, you’ll present the results to executives who will no doubt pepper you with questions about what-ifs. You toss aside the presentation software, opting instead for a data notebook because this won’t be the last time you’ll be asked to analyze prices.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2024

Despite ever-present uncertainty and change, our analysis suggests that public markets remain resilient and that AI continues to present a new vector of opportunity.” ” #1. There Are So Many Unicorns, We Have a 25 Year IPO Backlog Now of course in theory, IPOs could dramatically exceed their historical pace.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One of the very first SaaStr presentations ever was How to Hire a Great VP Sales (And Not Screw It Up). The content of the presentation will be familiar to most SaaStr readers, though I’ve embedded it above as well. What was new was some of the anecdotes that came out of my talk.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Someone could present the data here, stand up, and say we had a good quarter. You want your investors to trust the management team to present the right numbers or update the templates. #7: Only the CFO and ops people are allowed to present metrics. But what they really need to present are the metrics on the right.

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USIO

MAY 16, 2024

Most integrated payment solutions support a variety of payment methods, including: Credit and debit cards ACH (Automated Clearing House) transfers Remotely Created Checks Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) options Text2Pay Electronic Billing & Presentment Disbursements 4. How do I choose the right payment processor for integration?

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

So Redpoint Ventures published some of the slides they recently presented to their Limited Partners (their own investors) here. There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

investor presentation. But way is the 2022 presentation highlighted at the top? Anyhow the reminder is if Salesforce highlights as 3+ year old investor presentation on its core investor homepage, that’s an issue. When Salesforce is already in its fiscal 2025. There may be a reason eluding me. On your Testimonials page.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2024

Be Present. Be Present. Staff it up today with a new phone number and even an outsourced service to start, and see what happens. A little more here: Pick Up The Phone. Answer the Chat. SaaStr Pick Up The Phone. Answer the Chat. The post Dear SaaStr: What Was Your #1 Hack to Increase Trial Conversions to Paid?

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