SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Given the massive downturn that started 18 months ago, many SaaS founders are nervous about what it takes to raise capital in SaaS in 2023 / 2024. Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Not only is Klaviyo a rocketship but also the first to IPO in over 2 years (since December 2021) when it went public in September of 2023. They were way more interested in this perspective, so they’d set a goal for their team to drive $100k in “Klaviyo” bucks. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. The bet paid off. Why is that?”

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 310

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

In 2023, we saw a surge of SaaS brands adding anything AI-powered or AI-driven into their website headlines. They kept the focus on the core value proposition of helping teams write, plan and collaborate to create better workspaces, while still having the AI inclusion. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. Then, in 2023, they moved into messaging. There were way too many messaging apps, so Matt and the team decided to bring it all into one, and it’s secure, encrypted, and local to the device.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 332

Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

With that in mind, here’s a look back at some big trends that made 2022 a wild year in search and the things that will make huge waves in 2023. If there’s a story to tell from 2022, it’s that Google’s algorithm updates continue to impact the past, present, and even future of both web development and content creation.

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VP of Engineering AI Search Engineering Social Media 113

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Which are the best Userflow alternatives in 2023? Its analytics are better-developed than Userflow, but all its plans are more expensive. Just like us, they struggle to pinpoint any major weaknesses of the product. Its lowest Startup pricing plan is competitively priced but the Pro is not so anymore. according to G2 reviewers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2023

Related: 5 Steps to Get Your First Sales Job in 2023 Fast forward a year — you take a look at your earnings and pace to promotion. Related: The Ins & Outs of Variable Pay Compensation Structure for Sales Teams 2. It could reflect Company A’s poor brand awareness in the market, its pricing strategy, or the value of the product.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, or X as it’s now called, a number of new social media apps have either come into the limelight or been developed to capture the users that have been leaving. It’s one of the most popular alternatives and hit 1 million users in September 2023. What is Bluesky? Here are some of them.

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience 139

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. of the CRM market in 2023 more than the next four competitors combined).

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever. Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? 2022: Sales Tools.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 19, 2023

Maybe it goes without saying, I never heard them mistake the mail room guy or the security guard for a leadership team member.) Because it is they who continuously top the lists of unseen team members across organizations in the U.S. It comes down to respect and credit that each team member deserves on a fundamental level.

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Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Sales 115

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do?

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Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 145

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

As I’ve talked about before, the big risk for 2023 are fundamentals - are forward estimates too high? We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? Follow along to stay up to date! Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth.

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Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. The best way I can describe my job is trying to decide what advice is bad advice,” he told us. And I would say that was bad advice.”

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2023

On the left is the stage where you identify your prospects for your sales funnel and begin to develop rapport and trust. Related: 77 Motivational Sales Quotes To Inspire Your Team in 2023 4. Develop your strengths What is it that you do well, and how can you do it better? If you sow bad ones, you reap a bad harvest.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Funnel Investment Sales 122

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Table Of Contents As per the Data Breach Investigation Report 2023 , an alarming 74% of data breaches happened due to human elements such as human engineering error, misuse, or attack. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Table Of Contents As per the Data Breach Investigation Report 2023 , an alarming 74% of data breaches happened due to human elements such as human engineering error, misuse, or attack. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. In short, the feature allows teams to collect and prioritize feature requests at scale.

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Scale Onboarding 97

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings. Poor planning – No structured approach is taken to generate and test blue ocean ideas. New capabilities and skill sets will need development.

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Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

May they inspire you to take on whatever 2023 hurls warmly sends your way. Admitting you’re stressed to your team or leadership is tough, and depending on your workplace culture, even taboo. It’s where you develop the customer relationship and where the renewal really happens.

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Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Share Alright, AI continues to be the biggest talking point of 2023 ( are we sick of talking about it yet? ) – with every SaaS company on the face of the earth looking to experiment with some kind of AI integration into their software; It’s become quite apparent that less is more in today’s world. 1) Data/insights often lack.

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AI Revenue Scale ChatGPT 97

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

You can also see right away that, for instance, month 5 was an unusually bad month for the April 2020 cohort. a churn or retention rate you’d be happy with), red for “bad” values, yellow for “OK”, and gradients for values in between. How can different teams use cohort analysis to make better decisions?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

If you need any truly custom elements, those will need to be carefully developed if you can’t find any off-the-shelf solutions. Custom graphics and multimedia Custom graphics and multimedia are time-consuming to make, and getting them to work and play nice with your web development efforts takes additional effort. Image courtesy Zola.

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Pricing Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 90

Unbounce

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Develop gated assets : Create valuable downloadable content like eBooks , white papers , templates , and checklists. By sharing content from internal “thought leaders” like your agency’s founders or key leadership team members, you can build relationships and establish authority in the industry.

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Strategy AI Search Marketing Social Media 98

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Plus, 82 percent of consumers are more likely to trust a company whose leadership team engages on LinkedIn — and 77 percent are more likely to buy from them. When you can develop and share these processes in a clear, tangible way, your brand will grow with ease.” Not bad for someone with my following. (I

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Branding Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Engagement 140

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. So, what’s the best way to drive retention and mitigate churn in 2023? After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. Naturally, this puts extra pressure on customer success.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Iceberg is an open table format developed by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks (2 of the 3 co-founders of Tabular) while they were at Netflix. Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to. This prevents bad data from leaking downstream. But, Hive does not provide a true table specification.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. Use YouTube marketing to reach relevant audiences Develop informative and engaging videos related to your product or industry.

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Acquisition Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 105

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2023

We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. In the final 2 steps, the teams analyze the data to extract insights and act on them to improve the metrics. What is a product analytics framework and why is it important?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough. Many teams remain woefully underfunded. Physically, I have to take some time out because 20% of your time is administrative, it’s overhead, it’s being part of the team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity.

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Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 139

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Teams are often eager to launch this new initiative, however, sustaining that same enthusiasm in the months ahead can be a challenge. In our webinar, Reviving a community to support your customer success team , Shauna shares how to get your team engaged in your community and strategies to revive a community that’s running out of steam.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Technical Review Consulting 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

Ang McManamon is a tenured sales leader who puts culture first, helps build high performing SaaS teams, and executes with urgency across all areas of an organization. She is currently the VP of Sales at Crunchbase, where she leads a high growth team out of New York City. What does the early build for a strong sales team look like?

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Scale Leadership Sales Hiring Sales 82

Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Below is my search for SEO in 2023: As you can see, my initial search shows some news pieces and competitor articles and gives me a few ideas for blog topics. Additionally, Feedly lets you prioritize subjects and events vital to your marketing so that you can share those insights with your team. Organize your feeds on one platform.

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133