SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The state of software buying has changed. During SaaStr Annual 2021, Amanda Malko, CMO at G2, shared a fascinating look at the data that reveals shifting patterns in the way consumers purchase software. . Furthermore, 55% of companies plan to increase software spending in 2022. Well, it’s partially due to new ways of buying.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023. They review the changing market, buyer trends, and tips for the road ahead. Software that is difficult or time-consuming to remove is more likely to be purchased and renewed.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A few key learnings and top trends to consider: #1 There is unlimited potential; even with COVID ‘craziness’ As we continue to face and adapt to the challenges of COVID-19, many companies are turning to Cloud for Business Continuity and growth. 2 Cloud is Eating Software. The astonishing fact is: cloud is eating software.

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Technical Review Cloud Software Review Technology 350

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At the IMPACT Summit yesterday, I shared our Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024. Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Software startups are rising to meet the need. The same thing is happening in data.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Reviewing the financials, we see Splunk is a very healthy business. in revenues growing at 37% places the business in the top quartile of public software companies. in revenues growing at 37% places the business in the top quartile of public software companies. is in line with most other software companies.

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The Daily Egg

APRIL 22, 2020

Ecommerce platforms provide software that gives you the ability to create and manage your online store. With ecommerce trends on the […]. The post Best Ecommerce Platforms and Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

The average churn rate for the software industry as a whole is 14%. As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. TL;DR The average software industry churn rate is 14%, but SaaS companies should aim for under 2%. Looking to measure churn?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2021

What is the next big trend in SaaS (software as a service)? What types of due diligence are undertaken by VCs before investing in a company? Does the CEO need to know code? What do the top 1% of sales people (software/SaaS) do that the other 99% don’t? Why did Microsoft buy Wunderlist and destroy it?

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2025

A company selling $2-5K software packages won’t need humans for standard implementationsthe AI will qualify, demo, answer questions, negotiate within parameters, and close deals automatically. QBRs and Check-ins Will Be AI-Driven AI will take over the quarterly business review and regular check-in calls.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

In this Whatfix Mobile review, youll find answers to three questions: What does Whatfix Mobile offer? Product teams can use a no-code editor to design step-by-step guidance and interactive elements that live directly inside their mobile apps. Whatfix G2 review. Whatfix G2 Review. Is it the right fit for you?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Thread AI’s founder and Palantir alum Maya Gonimah has cracked the code on enterprise AI implementation through their strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Here’s the AI playbook that’s actually working in production today.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness. Overall, generative AI is a transformative asset in the software engineering lifecycle, from conception to deployment.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When you’re expanding your software business into new regions, industry benchmarking data can help you make better strategic decisions by answering important questions about business in the region. If you’re selling software at the same price into both the U.S. This means that, for example, for every 100 U.S.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2025

Thoma Bravo: Software Spend Will Grow 19% a Year Through 2028. But Every CFO I Know Is Still Doing Vendor Reviews. 10 AI Trends in SaaS Right Now with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin on LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday #2. Top Posts: #1. The #1 Thing That Makes Enterprise Customers See Value: A Great Dashboard #2. AI is The Accelerant. #3.

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Scale Software Review Marketing Cloud 190

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Most of the app sales and net retention comes from deploying software and tech-driven features that have 100% gross margin. In 2022, investor due diligence is back, and you will get challenged on those assumptions more than you ever have. So if they actually offer services, these come at a huge premium.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

Below, we take a closer look at the top three trends in the sales tech landscape to consider when choosing the right software for your sales organization. When reviewing your sales tech stack, it’s important to remember that a tool is not a strategy. Create consistent, customer-centric experiences. billion by 2022.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews. Think about Apu, the ever-diligent Kwik-E-Mart owner. But why bother fixing it?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

Over the last ten years, the 75th percentile post-money valuation of a cloud software or infrastructure company has grown 11% annually. But there’s more to this trend than just nomenclature change. Many run auctions effectively, and pick the right partner conducting similar diligence to the investors themselves.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 18, 2024

  Google Trends See the relative search popularity of topics Limitations:  None Google Trends shows the popular search terms over time, which is useful for uncovering seasonal variations in search popularity. Once you’ve created your schema code, copy and paste it into your website. Works for desktop and mobile.

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Technical Review Software Review Mobile Engineering 121

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Most high-growth software investors value public companies on enterprise value to forward revenue multiple. What if we could compare the relative valuation multiples of public and private high growth software companies? What if we could compare the relative valuation multiples of public and private high growth software companies?

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Software Review Finance Enterprise Acquisition 363

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

Put simply, social media automation is outsourcing the repetitive, manual, and sometimes boring tasks in your to-do list to software. Adding software into the mix doesn’t just reduce your overhead; it also helps you maintain your social media presence without burning out. And isn’t that the dream?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. Building a flippable business can work, but those are often built by taking advantage of short-term trends.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? The internet economy is expected to double from 2019 to 2023—and that’s after the cost of software tools to run your business has collapsed, from $4M in 2011 to a paltry $4000 today. “You The explosion of low and no-code solutions. Platforms-as-a-service.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wix has benefitted from those trends, not just crossing $1B in ARR, but growing a very impressive 29% year-over-year at $1B in ARR! This may be in part due to Wix’s original Israeli roots, but an impressive 43% of revenue is outside the U.S. Well, it turns out, people care. And SMBs are back in SaaS. Especially post-Covid.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Reflection across go-to-market trends, but also on the investment front (not to mention community !). We do invest in GTM software, but not that frequently.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 31, 2024

The problem with using these software (and even RSS feeds) as content sources is that everyone’s using them for content discovery. The ability to spot trends from a vast web of information : Seeing new information pop up every day and sharing it is one thing; connecting the dots is another. Google: [your niche] inurl:newsletter.

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Social Media Software Review Trends Content Marketing 106

FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? Are you optimizing all possible Q4 sales opportunities for your software business? sales trends by month and quarter.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods 159

SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. Base10 is interested in mega-trends that change how people live and work in the next ten years. That’s every other line of code.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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Software Review Software Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. A budget flush occurs when companies rush to spend remaining budgeted funds before the fiscal year ends, often due to a "use it or lose it" mentality. We all know 2020 and 2021 was the year of excessive software buying fueled by ZIRP.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s partly due to more competitive market dynamics, partly due to an ability to raise larger amounts of capital, and partly due to the desire to go public at greater revenue scale. None of these trends is a negative implication necessarily.

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Startup Software Review SaaS Acquisition 279

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2020

88% of businesses have shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading us all into uncharted territory. G2’s research team wanted to better understand how the pandemic is impacting software spend and usage, so we conducted a survey to find out. Let me reassure you: Remote selling is not a temporary trend.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Are Software Companies Over or Undervalued? Today I wanted to dig in to this question and its implications: “Are software companies fairly valued today?” Follow along to stay up to date!

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