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Ask Yourself for 2025: Does Your App Still Matter?

SaaStr

I do think so, but it’s been 12 years of blogging and 10+ year of events and more. All I had to do was write one blog post a day and one Quora answer, and magic happened. Does SaaStr still matter? So you gotta ask yourself that question as the year winds down. Do you still matter? Does your app still matter? What about SaaStr?

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5 Common Pieces of SaaS Advice … That Are Often Wrong

SaaStr

Here’s a subtle but very important mistake so many VCs, blogs, social media, etc. Sometimes, the market just isn’t big enough for Product #1 alone to get you to $100m+ ARR growing at a decent clip. Your customer acquisition costs need to be low — in all segments of the market.

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5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M with Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy

SaaStr

Blogs Documentation That was how they drove visibility through Google searches and how developers found them. A couple of months ago, someone in their Discord channel asked a question, and someone else referred them to a blog post written nine years ago that was relevant in 2024. That’s huge!

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower SaaS

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. To provide an accurate estimate, the firm should ask a multitude of questions.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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The Secrets to Selling and Scaling in Vertical SaaS with Slice’s CRO Loren Padelford

SaaStr

They make calls, go to meetings, do presentations, write copy, ads, and blog posts. “I fundamentally believe no one wakes up and does revenue,” Loren says. It’s an output of what people do. What do people do?

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The 30-Day Test: How to Know if Your VP of Sales Will Succeed

SaaStr

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about SaaS companies: the majority of first-time VPs of Sales don’t make it past 12 months. As someone who has both succeeded and failed at making this critical hire, I can tell you that when it works, it’s transformative. When it doesn’t, it’s potentially catastrophic.

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What is Data Storytelling? The Value of Context and Narrative

This blog acts as a beginner’s guide to what data storytelling means for your company’s business intelligence and data analytics, explains the importance of leveraging it today, and illustrates how Yellowfin’s own set of storytelling tools can enrich your insight reporting efforts.