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.
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Does Having a Board of Advisors Increase Your Chances of Getting Funding? No. Or maybe — only barely, a tiny bit. It does show you are hustling, if the advisors are truly great. If you get Eric Yuan or Marc Benioff to be an active advisor — well, then, you get some more attention. But that’s about it. They aren’t on the management team, they aren’t selling or building product or running a growth playbook.
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Tom Tunguz
JULY 8, 2023
In There’s No Such Thing as Series A Metrics , Charles Hudson explains that there is no magic milestone to raise a Series A. In this environment, I agree. The $1m ARR figure used to hold in 2018 & early 2019. But the data shows how much the market differs from a few years ago. Series A round size standard deviation has grown by between 4-5x in 4 years.
TechEmpower SaaS
JULY 24, 2023
At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.
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The Daily Egg
JULY 26, 2023
Using multiple apps to market your Shopify store and engage shoppers is frustrating. Lucky for you, Growave consolidates a wide array of. The post Growave Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaS Brief brings together the best content for SaaS professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Brian Balfour
JULY 31, 2023
In March, LinkedIn launched an AI assisted growth loop. Fareed Mosavat and I recorded a convo where we broke it down step by step. We were shocked when we looked up the stats. From March to June it went from generating 0 to 1M uniques per month according to Ahrefs and is on one of the steepest growth curves we’ve ever seen for a content loop. ?️ Note: Fareed and I are thinking about turning this type of convo into a podcast.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2023
I held off for many years on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Because every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have a Great Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Pre-Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Board Meeting Week. Etc. etc. etc. etc. VCs, once they have been doing it a while, basically become professional Board Members, and they write a lot about that.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 4, 2023
In August of last year, public markets switched from valuing SaaS companies primarily on growth to primarily on profitability. In the past two months, high-flying software companies have seen 40-112% increases in valuation. I wondered if the public markets have begun to change the way they value these businesses. The answer is yes - if you’re a top quartile company.
FastSpring
JULY 5, 2023
New Subscription Plan Change History API Now Available to Businesses That Use FastSpring SaaS continues to grow at a rapid clip, and more than ever, we’re used to using subscriptions for a variety of services. We’re also aware of the need to understand what we’ve historically paid for our subscriptions and the changes we’ve made to those subscriptions over time.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
The Daily Egg
JULY 28, 2023
You know how frustrating it can be to find the right software for your business. The process of going through free trial. The post TestBox Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
JULY 6, 2023
LinkedIn’s algorithm has always been a bit of a mystery – until now. The algorithm recently underwent some key changes, and the team (through Dan Roth, editor-in-chief, and Alice Xiong, a product management director) sat down with Entrepreneur to explain them. In this article, we’ll highlight the key points from the team’s interview about the LinkedIn algorithm and share practical tips for applying this knowledge to your content.
Clouded Judgement
JULY 28, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Busy week! Lots to unpack, I’ll hit on a couple of my favorite topics from this week below. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Satya at Microsoft said “Every AI app starts with data and having a comprehensive data and analytics platform is more important than ever.”
SaaStr
JULY 3, 2023
Dear SaaStr: When Should You Hire Your First Demand Generation Marketer in SaaS? My overly specific rough rule is about $20k in MRR. A deep dive on that and why here: I Hired My VP of Marketing at $20k MRR. It Wasn’t a Week Too Early. | SaaStr I.e., usually much, much earlier than you might think. Why? Assuming you are growing reasonably quick, a head of demand gen at even $20k in MRR can be accretive over the next 12 months.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 30, 2023
Earlier today, New Relic announced its sale to Francisco Partners & TPG for $6.5b. The acquisition is notable for two reasons. First, it accelerates the momentum within the technology buyout space. At its current pace, technology buyout volumes of venture-backed technology companies will tie or exceed the ten year high, charted in 2022 of about $20b.
Predictable Revenue
JULY 25, 2023
Collin Stewart meets Dan Fagella, from Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, to discuss the implementation of AI for sales. The post AI-Driven Sales Transformation with Daniel Faggella appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
The Daily Egg
JULY 27, 2023
In an ever-growing landscape of sleek, attention-grabbing websites, it’s increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd. And since eye-catching images, slideshows, The post MetaSlider Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
JULY 5, 2023
My content and keyword research was limited to what I saw on search engine results pages (SERPs) for a long time, especially at the beginning of my content writing journey. For instance, I would look at the content ranking for a specific keyword and try to emulate it in my content. But, as I progressed, I realized a pattern. In addition to being similar to existing top pages, the content needed more expertise and unique perspectives.
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Clouded Judgement
JULY 21, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? There was some talk last week on the All-In podcast about software companies. Specifically Chamath said this: “From an OpEx perspective these businesses just suck. They don’t generate any free cash flow.” Quite the claim!
SaaStr
JULY 9, 2023
Dear SaaStr: When Bootstrapping a SaaS Product, What Should You Be Aware Of? Just a few observations from bootstrapped SaaS companies I’ve had some involvement with: It probably will take 3–4 years longer to get to $10m ARR or so. I don’t fully have the data to support it, but usually, bootstrapped startups take longer. Atlassian and Qualtrics took longer to get to $10m ARR.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 25, 2023
I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Amazon, Cloudflare, & Mongo announce soon. At last, we see a change in slope in the annual growth rates of the cloud services. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next.
Predictable Revenue
JULY 11, 2023
Joel Klettke, from CaseStudyBuddy, joined to explore how you can build case studies effectively to ensure your sales team actually uses them. The post Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments
Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.
The Daily Egg
JULY 25, 2023
Getting the edge over your Shopify competition is never a bad idea. Koala Apps has three products that help you get insider. The post Koala Apps Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
IT World
JULY 7, 2023
OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm. “Currently, we don't have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue,” Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever wrote in a blog post for OpenAI, the company behind the most well-known generative AI la
Clouded Judgement
JULY 7, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Threads Meta’s Twitter alternative was released this week (Wednesday), and it appears to be a smashing success. Thursday was day 2 , and as of this writing (10pm on Thursday) there are 58m accounts already created.
SaaStr
JULY 7, 2023
Dear SaaStr: What Were the Biggest Mistakes You Made as a Founder-CEO? I’ve made so many, it’s hard to boil it down to two. But let’s focus on the earliest days, in Year 1. The biggest two mistakes I made as a founder-CEO in Year 1, I not only made once. I made them again twice, maybe thrice. They were: One, starting with too incomplete a management team.
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Tom Tunguz
JULY 6, 2023
Threads , Facebook’s newest social product & direct Twitter competitor, has surged to 70m monthly active users (MAU) as of this morning. What does that mean for B2B marketers? About 1350m users open the Instagram app every month. About 368m click on Twitter’s blue bird, 72% fewer. Threads, launched on July 5th, counts about 70m or about 20% the size of Twitter.
Predictable Revenue
JULY 11, 2023
Joel Klettke, from CaseStudyBuddy, joined to explore how you can build case studies effectively to ensure your sales team actually uses them. The post Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
The Daily Egg
JULY 21, 2023
With tons of options on the market for building a website, it’s hard for any company to stand out. They all have. The post Duda Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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