TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. This expansive, and ever-increasing knowledge base allows them to provide insights, answers, and context that may not even exist in a business's specific dataset or repository.

AI Search 519

AI Search Artificial Intelligence Generative AI AI 519

TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? What does a business leader do in this situation? Your reasons for needing a technical review will depend on your business goals. But is that the right strategy for your business?

Technical Review 390

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 390

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. What does the business do? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? How does it meet customers’ needs?

Metrics 390

Metrics Startup Scale New CTO 390

TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. Other Notable Functions Generative AI is poised to revolutionize supply chain management by enhancing demand forecasting, enabling businesses to anticipate market changes and adjust inventory accordingly.

Generative AI 443

Generative AI AI CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 443

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pricing is more than just a number on a contract — when used thoughtfully, it can become a strategic tool for your SaaS product that can drive product adoption, customer satisfaction, and business growth. Miro’s pricing strategy evolved with their business goals: Early stage: Minimum five-user paid plans to ensure collaborative value.

Payments 270

Payments Pricing Scale Revenue 270

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. Tell me about the business. Fulfillment?

Innovation 780

Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2006, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte set out to define a category around financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). ’ Bill is approaching half a million customers, so has a good pulse on small businesses. With SMBs, the smallest business is owner-operated. Needless to say, he succeeded. in revenue.

SMB 285

SMB Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 285

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 14, 2024

If AI delivers on its promise, it may spell the end of the SaaS business model as we know it. Historically, cloud software businesses charged a recurring fee based on the number of users of their software - the SaaS model. Their overall business will be a hybrid pricing structure. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 343

Cloud Pricing AI Software 343

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 12, 2023

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

CTO Hire 975

CTO Hire CTO Startup Development 975

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

Q1 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., As you can see from the data below most cloud businesses beat the consensus estimates for Q1. net retention and CAC payback).

Cloud 315

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 315

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Six months ago, security was the number one prohibition preventing businesses and software companies from buying AI. This can destabilize your business and have a big impact on cash. So the survey asked how much as a business has AI impacted its sales funnel. So how much business has it closed? It isn’t predictable.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Marketing AI SaaS 290

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2024

Like Microsoft & Google, Amazon’s Web Service business is seeing a surge of growth, up from 13% annual to 17% annual growth (16% when excluding the leap year). Each of these businesses are large enough to justify it. Amazon announced their earnings yesterday. “Moving to AWS.

Cloud 287

Cloud AWS Azure AI 287

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses. But in talking to those businesses, Andrew realized that in reality, these small-business, e-commerce consumer stores he was setting out to help were doing everything manually.

Revenue 284

Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 284

USIO

MAY 13, 2024

A business organization needs envelopes, stamps, check paper, printer, and ink for printing the checks. Saving businesses over millions of dollars with card distribution. With businesses coming in all different avenues, the Akimbo card has a lot of adaptability when it comes to multiple uses.

Payment Methods 264

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 264

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2024

With complimentary offerings from the likes of Chainalysis performing well in this category, my main interest in this business stemmed from excitement in the founder herself and her strong founder market fit. This was truly a case of the perfect founder building a business that has scale potential. #2.

Technical Review 267

Technical Review Management Investment AI 267

TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s just not a realistic expectation. You don’t want to be in the meeting when the investor asks why you didn’t use their favorite new technology - at least, not without a good answer!

CTO Hire 390

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Fractional VPE 390

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

We recently led a [ $50M series B ] investment in Todyl, which is a modular cybersecurity platform for small and medium businesses. We got really excited about the vision that CEO John Nellen has for the business and I believe Todyl’s core modules will see a rising tide as they target users with greater security posture maturity. #2.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Cybersecurity Scale Artificial Intelligence 265

The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If they are, it’ll have a negative impact on your business, blog, or whatever kind of website. Are your competitors outranking you? The post 7 Easy Steps to Improve SEO Ranking appeared first on The Daily Egg.

Business 342

Business 342

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is when SaaS metrics aren’t used as a tool of understanding to improve your business but to club people with numbers. These people try to have a conversation about business using metrics but end up talking about metrics and not the business. Does it mean bringing in X% of new business to hit that number?

Metrics 302

Metrics Sales Hiring Benchmarks SaaS 302

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

The Market Has Stabilized What does that mean for individual businesses? Software businesses, for the most part, require heads to grow a business through sales reps or customer support. In the public markets, Q1 wasn’t pretty in terms of expectations, and businesses were sometimes missing their numbers.

Venture Capital 259

Venture Capital Management Scale AI 259

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yesterday, both Google and Microsoft announced their earnings for their cloud businesses. Growth continues to be driven by Azure consumption business, and we expect the trends from Q1 to continue into Q2.” In the chart, it’s immediately evident that Mongo has seen dramatic increase in growth rate last quarter.

AI Search 293

AI Search AI Cloud Azure 293

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

So Kyle partnered with the business ops team to see what a high-quality deal looked like from their digital profile so they could figure out how to turn it into high-quality revenue. It looks great, and you can dump money into a business with that profile. They’re the engine of the business. Owner utilizes three tools.

Scale 272

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Sales 272

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2024

No one wants to fund a “great business guy” without an A+ CTO there as well. #6. Everyone does, at least for budget. This makes you look less than savvy about your market. #5. Not having a great CTO. It’s just too competitive today. Not growing quickly enough. VCs can only invest in folks that can hit $100m+ in revenue or more in 7–10 years.

CTO 267

CTO Investment Revenue Marketing 267

SaaStr

OCTOBER 19, 2024

112,000 Views: “What’s New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress” #3, 79,000 Views: “A Step by Step Guide to Revenue Growth with Mark Roberge, Harvard Business School” #4. 46,771 Views: “From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen, Founder of WP Engine” #6.

Acquisition 250

Acquisition Innovation Startup Engineering 250

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2023

Mid-market & SMB distributions skew left with up to 10% of businesses reporting a decrease in sales cycle during the period. The VSB chart shows a bi-modal tilt to the data: most companies observe a moderate increase but about one-quarter have seen a doubling.

Startup 308

Startup SMB Headcount Sales 308

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To oversimplify’s Doximity’s business model, it’s “LinkedIn for Doctors” has almost every U.S. Doximity is growing 20% now, vs. 18% at $450m ARR. Insane profitability. 53% EBITDA. That’s crazy. It rains cash at Doximity. physician on its platform. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. 80% of U.S.

Business Model 254

Business Model SaaS Revenue Marketing 254

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2024

“The worst thing I can do going into a business is dictate ‘this is the way forward,'” Dan explains. “Sometimes it’s simply changing how the business shows up and manages itself.” “This transparency allows us to have much more practical and real conversations about managing the business.”

Management 246

Management Scale Company Culture Forecasting 246

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

B2B is finding more consumers and prosumers paying, and B2C is finding Enterprise and business use cases. RevenueCat is selling to businesses selling to consumers, which has resulted in over $6B in subscription app revenue tracked across the Apple Store, Google Play Store, and Stripe. average realized LTV. is going to work?

Subscription 279

Subscription Payment Features B2B Mobile 279

SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2024

of Business Mobile App Trials Start in the First 24 Hours This is another area where mobile is way, way ahead of most browser-apps. 74% of Mobile Business Apps Renew. The best mobile business apps see 74% renewal rates, vs. 63% or so for the median, and 48% or so more lower quartile. And the Top Mobile Apps See 4.5x

Mobile 271

Mobile Subscription Payment Features Pricing 271

SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2024

Today that would be a dream, but in 2011, people didn’t understand the metrics around recurring revenue businesses, so investors weren’t sure it was a good business. You Need A Business Model with Economies of Scale As you’re trying to reverse engineer whether your business model makes sense, you have to look at your business model.

Engineering 263

Engineering Business Model Pricing Scaling 263