SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The data: Qualified Leads this year ranged from 95 at lowest-yielding of almost 200 sponsors, to 1597 at the top — a wide range But on average, each Gold got 207 Qualified Leads Next up? Finally, and this might be the most important data of all: You gotta put in the work. But at least now we can speak with data.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2024

T he good news is that G2’s data shows that more people are going to be buying software in 2025 than in 2024 , with only 6% saying they are going to buy less. The Latest Data on How AI Impacts the SaaS Buyer Landscape with G2’s CMO appeared first on SaaStr. What’s driving this purchasing behavior? The promise of AI.

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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. and EU customer data to set “one-size-fits-all” global pricing. The post Breaking Into Asia?

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on. For businesses, this means tapping into a broader informational spectrum without the need for manual data entry or updates. Broadly speaking, data can be categorized as either structured or unstructured.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies. This AI-centric approach transforms sales into a data-driven field, emphasizing efficiency and personalized customer experiences.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So it’s interesting how folks craft headlines from data. Carta release its latest funding data the other data for 2024 Year-To-Date here : What you can see is that large, hot AI later stage deals overall are indeed driving venture capital deployments up ~ +17% the year. But that’s for late-stage capital.

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Sparktoro

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Google is a massive presence on the modern web. They’ve held 90%+ of the global search market share for 15 years. Even the rise of AI tools has been unable to budget that number (so far). They get <9% of all web visits, but send more than 60% of all referring traffic to other sites. Google is certainly one of…

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2024

When you find the answer to these questions, you can expand an existing customer base and create cool data-driven case studies to help your sales team bring in net business. It All Starts With Data If you take away anything from this post, it’s to fight for better data for your customer success teams. What can you do right now?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2024

.’ The twist this time is the data is very hard for startups to acquire or accumulate. So it’s not just the innovation piece, but you need a proprietary data set to do something more meaningful with AI. Brian believes incumbent players like HubSpot and Salesforce have some key advantages: 1.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

So no source of funding data is perfect. But AngelList’s data is probably as up-to-date as you can get. The data is more recent than most sources, since it is self-reported by the investors in the round and on the AngelList platform. What does the AngelList data show us at 6/16/22? Per AngelList: About this market data.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 14, 2024

Or Snowflake who charges based on compute used or data stored. But if an AI agent is solving tickets, the UI becomes a whole lot less important… What becomes more important is the underlying data structure of the application. The best end user experience will come from a better underlying data architecture, not an easy to use UI.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen. Not at all: Per there data, there is some modest pick-up at Series B and C , but that’s less relevant to most founders. the growth.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the last ten years, the data ecosystem has focused on big data - the bigger the data set, the more exciting. Some of the brightest minds in data founded MotherDuck including BigQuery founding engineer Jordan Tigani & a broader team from Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Meta, Elastic & Firebolt, among others.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2024

Historically, a database like Snowflake sold both data storage & a query engine (& the computing power to execute the query). Instead of locking the data in one database, customers prefer to have it in open formats like Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, Apache Iceberg. The database is being unbundled. That’s step 1 above.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They recently did an Analyst day though that had some more great data that I thought was super interesting, and worth a deep dive. Starter Customers More Important Than Ever, Now 47% of Customer Base This data is super interesting, and a challenge to some conventional thinking in terms of how to go upmarket. But helpful to see.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The findings arent much different from what weve discussed before at SaaStr, but still very helpful to see, given how much data they are pulling from: On average, $100k deals take about 70 days to close. That ties to our overall rough sales cycle data here: Dear SaaStr: What’s a Good Benchmark for B2B Sales Cycles?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Let’s get into some high level data.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2024

So we took a look at some of the data from Emergence Capital’s survey of 600+ venture-backed software startups the other day , and they updated it with a bit more data on the Top Decline of Venture-Backed Startups Here: The summary data of the Top Decline leads to a rough conclusion: only the top 10% or so of venture-backed start-ups can likely raise (..)

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Models are trained with data (which can be real-world & synthetic or made by another machine), then they are sent for evaluation. We have a minimal understanding of how humans can manipulate models to reveal their underlying training data, their underlying function, & the orchestration for malicious acts today.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

At least 10% of their revenue - about $60m - comes from selling data to train Large Language Models. Reddit’s data sales revenue will likely be much more than 10% by the end of the year. This raises a fundamental question : What if the revenue from data sales dwarfs the revenue from ads? LLMs need data.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. Millions of people want to try new products, all at once, to answer the question : how could AI help me with my email, my homework, my music creation, my graphic design, my data analysis, my plumbing business?

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2024

I use a language called R to analyze data because of its ability to generate pretty charts & the depth of its statistical analysis tools. Within 90 minutes I had found 9 key data points in the data that were statistically significant & runs more than 50 analyses. Programming is becoming prompting.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

seed round for Prequel, a data syncing tool that allows a company to push/pull data to their customer’s data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc…). Mark is the author of the bestselling book The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2024

Data follows. Security companies as a group average 29% expected revenue growth in 2024, compared to 23% for Data (or DaaS which stands for data-as-a-service). Security & data top the charts at on average 10x enterprise-value-to-forward-revenue, compared to 5x for the others.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2022

The latest Gartner data backs that up: The big takeways: Gartner is predicting acceleration of business software spend in 2023, up to 11.8% The data above suggests maybe the 3d. So these are rocky times in the public markets for SaaS. And yet … and yet … so many SaaS companies continue to grow faster than ever.

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SaaS Enterprise Software Data 71

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2022

There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. Attribution will connect ad impressions to on-chain purchases - on-chain data is public, enabling end-to-end cost-per-acquisition (CPA) ads, which maximize the return for Advertisers. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? Member Profiles What data is included? How does the application behave when location data is not available? What is different, special here? Where’s the mystery? will you leverage? For customer service?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

During the era of big data, data gravity was the core strategic imperative. Wherever the biggest dataset resided, customers ran their compute workloads that generated all of the profit and revenue growth for the last generation of data companies. Plus, data movement is less expensive than in the previous era.

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USIO

MAY 16, 2024

Data Insights: Provides valuable transaction data that can be leveraged for business insights and optimization. Security: Look for PCI-DSS compliance and other security measures to protect sensitive data Support : Ensure the organization provides ongoing developer support and merchant support.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2022

A year from now, I expect significant changes in these data points. The data in this ecosystem is quite early. In other words, social proof in crypto is vital, demonstrated both by people voting with their dollars (TVL) and with their attention (Twitter followers). Revenue and age correlate weakly. The categorization is my own.

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