March, 2024

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower SaaS

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

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Clouded Judgement 2.29.24 - Shades of 2021

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Shades of 2021 in Venture Markets Private markets are really starting to heat up, and I’m starting to see shades of 2021. Anything AI related has always been “hot,” but it has really hit a fever pitch in the last few months.

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RevenueCat: Free Trials Are Way Up, Pricing is Stable in Mobile Subscriptions

SaaStr

So RevenueCat (where I was fortunate enough to be the first investor) now is the embedded mobile subscription API for 30,000 (!) mobile apps, across 290,000,000 subscribers and $6.7 Billion in tracked revenue. So they do have interesting data. Their 2024 State of Subscription Apps Report is out , and here were my top learnings: #1. 70% of Mobile Subscription Apps Now Offer Free Trials, At Least in Part.

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Why Databases Won't Charge for Storage in the Future

Tom Tunguz

The database is being unbundled. Historically, a database like Snowflake sold both data storage & a query engine (& the computing power to execute the query). That’s step 1 above. But, customers are pushing for a deeper separation of compute & storage. The recent Snowflake earnings call highlighted the trend. Larger customers prefer open formats for interoperability (step 2 & 3).

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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From Broad Market to Focused Success with Kristie Jones

Predictable Revenue

Collin dives into the journey from founder-led sales to establishing the first sales team with Kristie Jones from Sales Acceleration Group. The post From Broad Market to Focused Success with Kristie Jones appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Who Sends Traffic on the Web and How Much? New Research from Datos & SparkToro

Sparktoro

In the era of zero-click platforms, native content, and walled gardens, does anyone still send meaningful traffic to the open web? Is Google responsible for 50% of all traffic referrals? 75%? Is social media sending half what search does? A quarter? Less? Are the major platforms sending less traffic overall than they did a year ago?

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Clouded Judgement 3.15.24

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Q4 ‘23 Earnings Summary Preview We’re almost through Q4 ‘23 earnings season with just a few stragglers left to report (Braze, nCino, Sprinklr). I’ll put together my standard deeper dive quarterly review, but wanted to share some high level summary charts today.

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Four Simple Tips to Increase Pricing. Without Angering Your Customers.

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do I Increase Pricing Again Without Angering Customers? One simple thought: earn it. First, plan to increase pricing in general once a year, each year for new customers. But earn it. And generally for new customers, not existing customers. How much? Well, that will depend on how much additional value you’ve added over last year, how strong you stack up vs the competition, and how strong your brand is.

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The Opposite of a Good Idea is a Good Idea

Tom Tunguz

For those of us who love logic, the paradoxical title of this post should catch your eye, just as it did mine. In Alchemy , the founder of a major brand agency describes the way many of the major consumer companies in the world created brands. We call it breaking out : a double entendre which means both growing faster than competitors but also in a different way than their competition.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Enhancing Outbound Sales Strategies with Document Management Tools

Predictable Revenue

In the highly competitive landscape of B2B sales, efficiency is often the key differentiator between high-performing teams and those that struggle to meet their quotas. The post Enhancing Outbound Sales Strategies with Document Management Tools appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Celebrating Excellence: Jon Tewes Receives the Q4 2023 Springie Award

FastSpring

Working at FastSpring means having a true commitment to fostering a culture of recognition and appreciation, where we all feel valued and encouraged to contribute our best. The Springie Award, our quarterly Peer-to-Peer appreciation award, exemplifies this commitment, providing a platform for employees to recognize their colleagues’ exceptional contributions.

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Email is the Most Consistent, Reliable Marketing Channel on the Web and I Can Prove It

Sparktoro

This is a very short post to say: If you’re not investing in your own email marketing list, you’re making a bad choice. Social media engagement rates have plummeted the last 15 years. Ad engagement, too. Google CTRs have fallen massively the last decade with the rise of zero-click searches.

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Clouded Judgement 3.8.24 - 2024 Guides

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now 2024 Guides - Are they Conservative? So far we’ve got a number of full year 2024 guides. Overall, companies are not guiding above current consensus (median guide is 0.2% below consensus). Is this just companies guiding conservatively, to set up the year for beat and raises?

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round

SaaStr

So Michael Ho did an analysis here of Carta valuation data in a way that IMHO visualizes in a way so many founders miss. And misunderstand. At the end of the day, the top SaaS companies IPO and end up trading at “standard” ARR multiples. Today, on average that’s about 6x. Not great, but it is what it is. But they don’t start there. Seed rounds can’t really be done at 6x ARR typically.

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What Happens When AI Performance Asymptotes?

Tom Tunguz

In the past, the bigger the AI model, the better the performance. Across OpenAI’s models for example, parameters have grown by 1000x+ & performance has nearly tripled. OpenAI Model Release Date Parameters, B MMLU GPT2 2/14/19 1.5 0.324 GPT3 6/11/20 175 0.539 GPT3.5 3/15/22 175 0.7 GPT4 3/14/23 1760 0.864 But model performance will soon asymptote - at least on this metric.

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The Selling V

Predictable Revenue

The Selling V is a framework of questions to guide the discovery conversation between a prospect and a salesperson. The post The Selling V appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to Make AI Your Writing Sidekick for Content Marketing

The Moz Blog

Tasmin shares her tips on how to make AI your content marketing sidekick. Optimize every step of the process, from generating ideas to crafting headlines and simplifying your writing.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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5 Essential Tools for Invoice Payment Processing

BlueSnap

Effective invoice payment processing is crucial for your business’s financial stability and healthy cash flow, yet so many companies still grapple with delayed payments, inefficient processes and the risk of funds stalling in collections. The post 5 Essential Tools for Invoice Payment Processing appeared first on BlueSnap.

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What is B2B Payments Processing and How Do You Implement It?

Stax

During the 2020s, almost all businesses will have been looking at b2b payments processing solutions to meet changing consumer needs. Online and contactless adoption multiplied, and digital payments rose. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of U.S. consumers using two or more types of digital payment methods increased by 8%. Consumers are increasingly gravitating towards quick and convenient payment methods such as contactless payments and mobile wallets when transacting with businesses.

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Yes, Everyone Has To be 2x as Efficient As They Used to Be. It’s Just Math.

SaaStr

How The World Works: 2020: Grow Like Crazy, Burn Doesn't Matter 2024: Grow Almost as Fast, But Be Wildly Efficient e.g., [link] Now at $800,000,000 in ARR, growing 35% pic.twitter.com/7EvYbQRjH6 — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? (@jasonlk) February 23, 2024 I know a lot of folks in tech are still frustrated in 2024 — and feel they’re being asked to do more with less.

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The Vector Computer Company

Tom Tunguz

If you were to watch three videos on YouTube Shorts - one on Italian cooking, one on chess openings, & a third on crypto trading, YouTube Shorts’ recommendation algorithm combines the video descriptions with your dwell time. Watching the osso bucco video to its end would trigger more Italian cooking specialty videos in your feed. We believe every LLM-based application will need this capability.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Trust and Value in Customer Relationships with Larry Levine

Predictable Revenue

Collin Stewart is joined by Larry Levine, a veteran sales guru and the visionary author behind "Selling from the Heart." The post Trust and Value in Customer Relationships with Larry Levine appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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In-Depth Guide to GA4 Path Exploration (+Better Alternative)

User Pilot

Are you wondering what the GA4 path exploration report is? If so, you’re in the right place, as this is the main question we explore in the article! To be more specific, we: Cover its most common use cases. Show how to create the report. Explain its different settings. Compare it to Userpilot Paths. Let’s dive in, shall we? TL;DR The GA4 path exploration report provides a visualization of successive or previous actions that users take at a particular stage of the user journey.

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From Prep to Pass, Scytale Launches Its Built-In Audit, Transforming It Into The Complete Compliance Hub for SaaS

Scytale

For SaaS companies, it’s hard not to hear the word ‘audit’, without your heart skipping a beat or two. Finding the best audit firm for your company’s culture and tech stack, hundreds of back-and-forth requests, and manually collecting and sharing evidence, takes up so much valuable time and resources. Let’s just be honest: audits are annoying.

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Everything You Need to Know About Secure Payment Processing Systems

Stax

Data protection and security are crucial not just for safeguarding customer information, but for protecting business owners as well. Having and maintaining secure payment systems is integral for protecting yourself and your customers. Because more credit card-oriented purchases take place online, security and fraud protection are top priorities. Making sure there are secure payment technology policies and procedures within your company will guarantee the integrity of present and future transacti

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Everyone in Your Org Should Listen to 1 Customer Call a Week. Every Week.

SaaStr

So years ago on SaaStr, I wrote a post on how everyone in your company should do customer support once a month. I learned this from Intuit, brought it back to my startup, and forced everyone to do it. Even engineering, which at first strongly resisted. More on that here: Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support. At Least Until You Have 50-100 Employees.

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Looking into the Future of BI With Colin Zima

Tom Tunguz

On March 15th at 9:30 Pacific time, Office Hours will host Colin Zima, CEO of Omni Analytics. Colin is no stranger to business intelligence & data analysis. He worked on search quality at Google, founded a dynamic pricing company for the restaurant industry, then ran data at a hotel tonight before becoming Chief Analytics Officer at Looker through its acquisition by Google.

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Episode 14: Pipe | The Past, Present, and Future of ISVs in Embedded Finance

Infinicept

Our guest today is Luke Voiles. Luke is the CEO of Pipe, leading the charge on embedded finance with their super interesting and appealing product. We discuss the role of vertical software in the embedded payments and finance ecosystem doing a deep dive into past, present, and future in the space. Read the full transcript below.

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