Totango
MAY 27, 2022
Product-led growth (PLG) has emerged as one of the best strategies for selling SaaS software. It lets your product do the talking, departing from a sales-led growth strategy that depends on a conventional sales pitch. SaaS businesses adopt product-led marketing to lower customer acquisition costs while improving customer retention and accelerating revenue growth.
SaaStr
MAY 28, 2022
Gartner, spending on SaaS: 2020: $120B 2021: $152B 2022: $177B 2023: $208B. Worry less about a few tweets, more about the opportunity ahead, and here right now. Go sell something pic.twitter.com/TLzgbuQLnW. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) May 26, 2022. So Gartner slices and dices its data a number of ways, but I find it invaluable to track enterprise and CIO sentiment.
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Predictable Revenue
MAY 9, 2022
The best outbound sales emails all share a few common characteristics. This post will walk you through how to master each of these traits and increase your reply rates. The post How to Write Outbound Sales Emails That Convert appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 15, 2022
As the fiscal quarters of many startups draw to a close, board members and management teams are having one of four conversations: The World is Your Oyster, Time to Strategize, Chewing Gravel, or Go Big/Go Profitable. Here’s how these scenarios fall onto a 2x2 matrix. The x-axis is the Zero Cash Date: when the startup runs out of money. The y-axis is sales efficiency: a proxy for product-market fit (PMF).
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For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.
The Daily Egg
MAY 3, 2022
There’s no shortage of payroll software tools on the market today. But Paycor stands out with a fairly unique approach to serving. The post Paycor Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 17, 2022
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SaaStr
MAY 31, 2022
So Creandum, one of Europe’s leading VC firms (and they’ll be speaking at 2022 SaaStrEuropa.com in Barcelona on June 7-8 ) updated its report on What Founders Really Want from VCs , and if VCs add value: The data is interesting: Only 30% of founders think their VCs have been helpfu l. That sounds about right. VCs aren’t helping enough in recruiting, not for real. 69% of VCs they are making a difference in recruiting, but 79% of founders say they aren’t.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 31, 2022
Tom Burton joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to transform prospects into your own top performing sales team. The post Transform Your Prospects Into A High Performing Sales Team appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 2, 2022
A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success.
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Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.
The Daily Egg
MAY 20, 2022
Constant Contact and Mailchimp are two of the best-known email marketing solutions on the market today. Overall, Constant Contact has the edge. The post Constant Contact Vs. Mailchimp appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 16, 2022
Design and collaboration go hand-in-hand. When we want to discuss problems, imagine new ideas, and brainstorm solutions, it’s best to bring people together – whether in person or virtually. Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. But beware: just bringing people together doesn’t automatically guarantee creative outputs and ideas.
IT World
MAY 24, 2022
In an ideal world, the data we need to analyze would be available in ready-to-use format. In the world we live in, though, a lot of valuable data is locked inside Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. How to extract that data from PDFs into an Excel spreadsheet? You have a number of PDF to Excel converters to choose from. There’s software from major vendors like Microsoft and Adobe, task-specific cloud services including PDFTables and Cometdocs, services from general-purpose cloud providers
SaaStr
MAY 6, 2022
So the public markets are in tumult. Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. But Covid did create a lot of artificial demand for Cloud products, especially the lockdown phase. The boosts Zoom (can’t go to the office anymore), Shopify (can’t go to a store anymore) were real, but could never be sustained.
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
Predictable Revenue
MAY 24, 2022
Joel Smith and Vanessa Roberts, coaches from SaaS Academy, joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to excel at product-led growth. The post How to Excel at Product-Led Growth appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 17, 2022
With all the talk of recession, changing market dynamics, and the importance of efficient growth, many teams will be looking to boost their sales efficiency. How can the company drive more sales with less expense? Let’s start with the formula for sales efficiency. Sales efficiency = New_Bookings x Gross_Margin / Sales_and_Marketing_Cost. Three paths emerge from the equation: Increase bookings : increase pricing without sacrificing sales velocity.
The Daily Egg
MAY 4, 2022
Mailchimp is one of the best-known marketing automation platforms on the market, thanks to its hefty advertising budget. The platform promises to. The post Mailchimp Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 13, 2022
A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. It’s another way of saying the customer lifecycle, or the steps your customers take from the time they first become aware of your brand to the point at which they become your brand’s biggest advocate. .
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 13, 2022
The market has taken a downturn, and every other blog or tweetstorm seems to offer the same general advice: conserve cash, extend runway, shift from focusing on growth to focusing on efficiency. We’ve advised many of our later stage growth companies through market ups and downs, and we’ve realized that, when the market dips, founders. Read More. The post A Framework for Navigating Down Markets appeared first on Future.
SaaStr
MAY 17, 2022
Q: What are the most common mistakes people do while investing? My top mistakes in venture investing at least: Investing when I didn’t 100% believe in the CEO. No matter how interesting the metrics, even the product is, don’t invest if you don’t 100% believe in the CEO. It’s not enough. And if you truly, 100% believe in the CEO — lean in.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 16, 2022
These cold call script templates will help you craft an outbound sales conversation that feels natural, engages prospects, and wins more sales. The post Cold Calling Scripts to Maximize B2B Sales appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 9, 2022
How much further can the market decline? The answer is quite a bit more. That may be hard to believe given the falls from recent highs in software companies approach 70% collapses. I went through my archives and found this post from 2017 that showed that the most expensive stock at the time was Veeva at 11.7x forward. Today, CloudFlare tops the list at 22.2x.
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.
The Daily Egg
MAY 24, 2022
Microsoft Power BI and Tableau are two of the most popular and robust business intelligence tools on the market today. Both are. The post Microsoft Power BI Vs. Tableau appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 18, 2022
First-party data is the future of online engagement and customer experiences. There’s no two ways about it. In June 2021, Google confirmed that it will no longer track individuals online via cookies. This isn’t surprising given competitors such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla Firefox are cookieless by default – however there are already debates about how Google will collect and use data thereafter.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 6, 2022
There has been a lot of buzz about “the metaverse” since its coinage the ‘90s, but especially during the pandemic (given the surge in online activity), and even more so after Facebook changed its name to Meta. Is this just a bit of opaque marketing-speak? What is a metaverse exactly? How does one define the. Read More. The post 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse appeared first on Future.
SaaStr
MAY 23, 2022
There are many ways to slice-and-dice public market data, but the headline one Bessemer called out is the most visceral I’ve seen: Public SaaS and Cloud companies lost $1 Trillion in market cap so far in 2022. And the number of public SaaS and Cloud decacorns has fallen from 50 to 17. This puts a lot of pressure on all the private unicorns out there: We did a deeper dive on decacorns here.
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.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 17, 2022
Harpaul Sambhi joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the importance of founder-led sales to scaling repeatable revenue for startups. The post The Importance of Founder-Led Sales to Scaling appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 5, 2022
The public markets are deep crimson. The last time VC sentiment was so publicly negative, Twitter turned two. Term sheet re-trading rumors have surfaced. Public markets do impact startup fortunes, but only inasmuch as the prices at which venture rounds clear. IT spend is the more important canary in the coal mine. If customers cut their software spend, startups should expect a harsher climate.
The Daily Egg
MAY 12, 2022
As two of the most popular cloud storage systems, Google Drive and Dropbox give you everything you need to store your documents, The post Dropbox Vs. Google Drive appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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