SaaStr
JANUARY 13, 2021
Burnout is a real risk in SaaS. Not usually in the early days. But as time marches on — It’s a huge risk. . One piece of “evidence” — a lot of fairly successful SaaS startups all sell at about the same point in time … about 5 years in.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 26, 2021
Sales qualification questions help compare the prospect to the ICP to determine if they are a great fit. With an ideal customer profile, sales teams can focus on optimizing the sales qualification process. What Is Sales Qualification? Sales qualification is a vital process that helps sales teams determine which leads to prioritize first and which ones to shelf and pursue later.
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ChurnZero
JANUARY 29, 2021
. As a Customer Success professional, you talk to customers about your products and services all day, every day – whether it’s discussions about product adoption, value, or ROI. With your well-rehearsed and oft-recited talk tracks around features and use cases, product-focused talk is likely second nature to you, which makes it easy to default to during customer conversations. .
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 17, 2021
From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. I analyzed Crunchbase data and looked for the startup categories that grew fastest in terms of funding rounds year-over-year, provided there were at least 10 rounds in that category.
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The Daily Egg
JANUARY 1, 2021
Job sites are hectic places with dozens of people working on different things, people trying to communicate over loud noises, and heavy machinery moving around. To make matters worse, you can’t control the weather or predict when someone’s going to miss a few days of work. Without the right level of oversight and project visibility, […]. The post Best Construction Management Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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SaaStr
JANUARY 17, 2021
In theory, many things can kill a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR. In practice, quitting is the only thing. In theory, many things can stop a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR from getting to $100m. In practice, high churn is the only thing. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 17, 2021. Part of my job when I invest in a start-up is to get folks excited about the company.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 5, 2021
At Intercom, we believe product managers (PMs) should focus on problems , not solutions. Indeed, our first R&D principle is “Start with the problem.” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development.
FastSpring
JANUARY 26, 2021
If you run a small business, nothing beats the convenience and simplicity of a service like PayPal. One click of a button on a shopping cart page and a purchase is made. This is great for your customer and you. But this convenience is somewhat deprecated when you look at your PayPal account and see a significant problem: fees. “How much does PayPal charge?
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 25, 2021
How important is uptime to your business? As more business moves online, an increasing number of companies have to answer than critical question. When products and services fail, customers can’t buy online or use their software, they churn, and the company suffers brand damage. Too much downtime can trigger clauses in software contracts for service level agreements (SLAs), which start cancellation conversations.
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
JANUARY 12, 2021
Have you ever cooked a dish so good you even surprised yourself? You followed the recipe perfectly and viola! Somehow, everything aligned. When it comes to building a website, it can work the same way. Before modern and more intuitive website builders, coders and software engineers had to spend hours designing web pages, adding long […]. The post Best Free Website Builders appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
JANUARY 19, 2021
Marketing and sales teams may work for the same company, but they behave like enemies way too frequently. Learn how to prevent that! The post How to Strengthen Your Company Through Sales-Marketing Alignment appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2021
One of the most tiring things for founders can be always being compared to Unicorns and now Decacorns. Certainly sometimes it’s inspirational. I loved it when many of the founders come out of each SaaStrAnnual saying they needed to grow faster: But the reality is as a founder there are different ways to make real money and build something meaningful.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 19, 2021
Inconsistent product functionality, wildly differing UI components, and conflicting terminology – the slow creep of design debt can have far-reaching consequences for your business if left unchecked. Here’s a simple framework for managing it. A few years ago, we wanted to improve the A/B testing functionality in some of our targeted messages. It was a trivial feature that we thought would be a cinch to build.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
FastSpring
JANUARY 7, 2021
By nature, humans are creatures of habit. Of course, this is no secret to parents of young children. All it takes is a few cycles of listening to the Thomas The Tank Engine theme song over and over and over and over and over and over for parents to learn that kids like what’s familiar. Yes, kids love watching the same movie, playing with the same toys, and eating the same kinds of foods repeatedly.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 20, 2021
On Thursday, February 4th at 9:30 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will host Daria Kissner , who built and led internal and external communications for Google Ads and Commerce, and YouTube. With the transition to remote work, the discipline of internal communications has become critical for startups to master. Keeping teams motivated, aligned, and connected when each person is in a different place is a new muscle for many startups to train.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 29, 2021
Trello is one of the most popular project management tools on the market today. It’s trusted by over one million teams worldwide, including industry leaders like Google, Squarespace, Pinterest, Costco, and Fender. Using simple Kanban-style boards, Trello allows teams of all sizes to manage various types of projects. Trello is arguably the most user-friendly project […].
Predictable Revenue
JANUARY 7, 2021
After years of experience, Kim has learned a thing or two about working cross-functionally within a large revenue org, and how to wrangle rogue SDRs. The post Strategic Alignment: Driving Communication, Cohesion, and Adoption across Sales and Marketing appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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SaaStr
JANUARY 4, 2021
Q: Why are so many VCs moving to Miami and Austin? . Why? It’s taxes first — although this isn’t new … and. Quality-of-life second. QOL has declined dramatically during Covid in San Francisco. And third — investing over Zoom is now routine. This is the real new part. When before Covid, it was rare. This is the true disruption that has pushed folks over the edge to finally … move.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 12, 2021
From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 31, 2021
In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes — past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230 , Tiktok ,… The post 16 Minutes #53: Anatomy of a Hack, SolarWinds and Ripples Beyond appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 26, 2021
There’s a trend in pitch decks and startup pitches I’ve been watching - the commingling of metrics definitions, especially ARR. Everyone reports ARR today, even in transactional businesses and market place businesses, and for good reason. The valuation multiples on annual recurring revenue are the highest across startup categories. Ten years ago Startupland began to talk about valuing early and mid-stage startups on multiples.
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The Daily Egg
JANUARY 16, 2021
Businesses in the modern era rely on data for everything. From customer data to marketing information, website data, and more, companies collect data at nearly every touchpoint. But all of that data is useless if you can’t store it, keep everything organized, and access information when you need it. That’s why database software is so […]. The post Best Database Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
JANUARY 25, 2021
Are you new in leadership and wondering how to be a good boss? Or did you ever think about leaving your company because you had a bad one? Jaimie Buss is here to help! The post What Makes a Boss Great? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
JANUARY 25, 2021
Early in my career, I was a bit skeptical of big analyst firms like Gartner. Was it all sort of some sort of game in enterprise software? But like many things, time goes on and I learned. Yes, sometimes a vendor recommendation from Gartner can seem a bit circular. But it doesn’t mean the analysis isn’t valuable. It’s especially valuable in terms of market sizing and trends, because they do the work.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 13, 2021
Our mission at Intercom is to “make internet business personal” – to enable online businesses to foster the same sort of relationships with their customers as “brick-and-mortar” businesses. . The focus on relationships is very intentional – frequent positive interactions encourage loyalty, and loyalty is the bedrock of every sustainable business. .
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
Unbounce
JANUARY 26, 2021
Marketers, how do you solve a problem like Maria? In our profession, the hills are very much alive with the sound of conversion opportunities, but at the end of the day, how do you catch a cloud and pin it down? With new trends and channels emerging every day—at this point we’re just waiting for Excel to release a Stories feature—it can be tough to keep your efforts fresh and effective.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 3, 2021
Erica Brescia, the COO of Github, a company in which 70% of the workforce has worked remotely for a decade, wrote in the Economist about how remote working is different and better. There have been many perspectives shared on remote work, but Erica’s perspective adds an intriguing detail. Managers tasked with creating a culture of collaboration within a distributed team will find the profile of a leader changes.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 30, 2021
Resource management software is becoming an essential tool for managers in today’s climate. Whether it be connecting remote teams or collaborating across multiple organization agencies, a good resource management software will make it easy to plan, schedule, and deliver successful projects. So, instead of trying to manage all of this on your own, it’s time […].
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