Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s impossible to talk about new technology without talking about human flourishing — every new technology from the plow to the microchip has typically been followed by a period of newfound wealth for consumers in the form of cheaper goods, improved productivity, and longer, healthier lives. In many ways, the most financially average person in our modern society experiences daily luxuries that history’s Pharaohs and Caesars could not imagine: instant communication, broadcast television, global

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So most of you can probably infer from funding posts and press releases just how much B2B funding is going into GenAI startups. But exactly how much? Sapphire Ventures has the latest data. In 2023: GenAI funding was up a stunning +271% (!) But overall, B2B VC funding was down -36% 2024 seems to be pretty much the same. Top SaaS VCs are investing 80%+ in AI-first startups: This is where the VC frenzy is right now.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As we’ve been researching the AI landscape & how to build applications, a few design patterns are emerging for AI products. These design patterns are simple mental models. They help us understand how builders are engineering AI applications today & which components may be important in the future. The first design pattern is the AI query router.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Are Forward Estimates Going Up? Going in to this earnings season I expected a big driver of stock price performance to be how 2024 full year estimates change pre / post earnings. Since the macro feels more “stabilized” it felt fair to assume “are numbers going up or down” to be the question most correlated with stock price performance.

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The Moz Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

An About page is often part of a buying journey. It can drive people to your site and help convince them to trust your brand, boosting both brand loyalty and conversions. Ann shares four key steps to create better-performing About pages.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You’ve probably received dozens of spammy, impersonal direct messages (DMs) in your social media inboxes that you never bothered replying to. Think messages from people who misspell your name, are clearly looking to sell you something you don’t need, or are just copy-pasting text en masse.  It’s little wonder that DMs get a bad rap, and most tend to shy away from sending them.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s Your Best Advice for Struggling Entrepreneurs? Having struggled a lot myself in the early days several times … just a few thoughts to summarize my learnings: 1. Get help & upgrade the team. This is the #1 thing you can do to move the needle. Don’t be ashamed to ask for help. Especially if you are struggling.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We’re entering a new pricing environment for software: AI vs non-AI. It’s only happened in the last few weeks. Recent earnings have pushed some of the most important companies to all-time highs. Company Performance Confluent 34% Cloudflare 21% ServiceNow 20% Microsoft 14% This dynamic doesn’t favor everyone. Theory created a public market AI index to track software companies who have significant product plans or current AI businesses.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now January Green Shoots A couple key software players have given us commentary in their Q4 earnings report (quarter ending December) that January (the first month of Q1) saw some green-shoots. Could this be the sign of a slow rebound?

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Collin hosts Joel Graber from Modern Outbound, for a chat for salespeople and marketers looking to refine their approach. The post Copywriting for Outbound with Joel Graber appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Ready to join the game industry’s premier professional event? If so, join FastSpring at Game Developers Conference 2024 at Booth S1931! We’d love to talk with you in person! Join us at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22nd, for an extraordinary event dedicated to continually defining market innovations and providing insight into the future of games.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Timing can make or break many things: heating leftover pizza in the microwave, delivering a punchline for a joke, booking Era’s Tour concert tickets — and it’s no less important when it comes to the best time to post on Twitter.  The social media platform now known as X is evolving, but the factors you should consider if you’re looking to grow your following have largely stayed the same.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So layoffs still fill the headlines in 2024. Even now. I thought we’d be behind them by now, that the cuts were sort of a one-off. But now everyone is focused on getting more and more efficient. To $300k-$400k+ per employee at scale. So cuts continue. But don’t the headlines obscure what’s really happening, because they tend to shout out quieter trends.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last week, Reddit filed their S-1 to go public. 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. Quoting directly : We expect our growing data advantage and intellectual property to continue to be a key element in the training of future LLMs.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud.

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USIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the fast-paced world of digital transactions, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and control over their financial operations. One such trailblazer in the realm of digital disbursement is Usio Akimbo Card , offering a revolutionary approach that goes beyond the ordinary. Let’s delve into the uncharted advantages that come with embracing Akimbo Card digital disbursement strategies.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Information security is absolutely paramount in today’s digital world, particularly in the payments industry. Jack Tsigankov, Director of IT and Information Security at Payrix and 17-year industry veteran, recently shared some of his wisdom on the subject as a guest on the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. Here are a few highlights you don’t want to miss.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

$103,000. $560,000. $3.2 Million. These are some of the figures creators reported making in 2023. In other words, there’s no better time to be a content creator than right now. You don’t get those numbers without a deep understanding of content creation as a business. And you don’t get “business” status without understanding pricing.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. Before joining Zapier, Giancarlo was at Atlassian as a technical sales lead before moving to DropBox as a Senior Director of Growth and Monetization, and was CMO at Confluent – so he

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launched on January 12, about a month ago. On the first day, investors bought $655m & nearly $2b in the first three days. Since then, the figure has swelled to $4.6b. It’s not a fair comparison but for fun, we can compare the Bitcoin interest to the largest technology IPOs for a sense of scale. Company IPO Date Raised $B Facebook May-12 $16.0 Uber May-19 $8.1 Snap Mar-17 $3.9 Airbnb Dec-2 $3.5 Snowflake Sep-2 $3.4 DoorDash Dec-2 $3.4 Lyft Mar-19

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Rule of X Meritech and Bessemer both recently did an analysis that looked at the Rule of 40 and asked the question “what if growth / profitability shouldn’t be treated equally in the Rule of 40?” The Rule of 40 looks at the sum of a companies growth rate and FCF margin (or some other profitability metric like EBIT margin) and says that the sum s

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Collin sat down with Mia Murphy from Tontine.ai, to discuss her transformative journey through the sales landscape. The post What Founders Must Do Before Their First Sales Hire with Mia Murphy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Nimble - Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This Valentine’s Day, let’s celebrate a different yet essential aspect of our professional lives: networking! Successful businesses thrive on networks of relationships that are built over time, which are crucial for sparking new opportunities, forming partnerships, and driving growth. We’ve connected with industry experts who have shared their insights and personal takes on how effective […] The post Heartfelt Connections: The Power of Relationships in Business Success ap

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 was a big year for LinkedIn and its top creators. The platform cracked 1 billion users , added and removed several key features (goodbye Carousels), and became a destination for many top creators. The LinkedIn team must have come away with many lessons as they announced some key pivots within the first month of 2024, most notably making the “Creator Mode” feature the default for every user.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Recently at Pavilion’s CEO Summit, SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin, took the stage to do something. a little bit different. Typically on SaaStr.com, we try to focus our content on mistakes to avoid, lessons learned and how to scale faster, but for the CEO Summit, Jason addressed the audience with what’s most top of mind for him at the start of 2024. “I really think we are in a new world as managers and as leaders,” Jason said to kick things off. “2023 was nuts,

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The Community Source licenses may be the future of open source software. With closed-source software, the code isn’t shared outside the company that wrote it. Open-source code is freely available to examine & use. Open-source companies like Elastic ($13b), Confluent ($10b), MongoDB ($33b) have been phenomenally successful. Along the way, many of them have changed their licenses to shield themselves from copycats.

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USIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of financial technology, businesses are constantly seeking efficient and seamless ways to handle transactions. Two prominent solutions that have emerged in recent years are integrated payments and Payfac-as-a-Service. While both aim to simplify payment processes, understanding the nuances between the two is crucial for businesses to make informed decisions about which solution best suits their needs.

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

An ICP comprehensively describes your perfect customer, the ideal fit for your offerings, and future long-term partnerships. The post The Dynamic Nature of Your ICP appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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