Tom Tunguz
APRIL 11, 2023
For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI.
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2023
As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Back at the first SaaStr Annual, in February 2015, we kicked off the day with Aaron Levie from Box — who had just IPO’d a week or so before.
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SaaStr
APRIL 7, 2023
Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round? It definitely can vary based on what type of investor. But for venture-backed start-ups raising from more traditional funds (the ones you’ve heard of), here are some rough rules: Seed VCs would like to buy 10%, sometimes 15%, if they can. They often “settle” for a bit less.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 27, 2023
Source: Midjourney The generative AI boom is compute-bound. It has the unique property that adding more compute directly results in a better product. Usually, R&D investment is more directly tied to how valuable a product was, and that relationship is … The post Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.
Kellblog
APRIL 23, 2023
As long as the country’s in a censorship mood , I figured that I could jump on the bandwagon and propose that we ban discussion of one of my pet-peeve SaaS metrics: ending ARR. Wait, but aren’t you the guy who said that if you only knew two things about a SaaS company and needed to value it, one would be ending ARR and the other would be its growth rate?
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Neil Patel
APRIL 1, 2023
Every content strategy recipe needs its secret sauce: keywords. Keywords go with everything. They spice up your content and give your site texture to capitalize on traffic. But your recipe falls apart if you don’t align the right keywords with the right content. No matter what other methods you use to drive traffic to your site, you want to use SEO keyword mapping.
Buffer Resources
APRIL 3, 2023
Here we go again. If you work in social media, it’s nothing new to adapt and change your strategy based on the ever-changing algorithms and the rise and fall of social networks. (Who else was on Vine? 🙋🏻♀️) But, of course, we wish you didn’t have to. The latest wave for social media marketers and creators is that TikTok might be banned in the U.S.
User Pilot
APRIL 29, 2023
App onboarding best practices will boost your first impressions and show what your app can do for your users. But how do you make sure that your users stick around and get the most value out of your product? There’s no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why you need to follow the best practices to design an engaging onboarding experience that retains users.
SaaStr
APRIL 2, 2023
“I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.” -Random quote I found on the Internet If that doesn’t describe the CEO experience, I don’t know what does. In February 2023, I hit my 10-year anniversary (or “Gainaversary,” as we say) of running Gainsight. After receiving my gold watch and Silicon Valley AARP card, I had a chance to reflect on a decade of community-building, cheesy music videos, and #CustomerSuccess.
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 16, 2023
In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. In the past two years, the correlation has grown stronger from -0.46 correlation to -0.51. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023.
The Daily Egg
APRIL 7, 2023
Project teams constantly juggle multiple tasks, creating an administrative nightmare for project managers. From disconnected teams and time and budgetary constraints to. The post Wrike Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Clouded Judgement
APRIL 14, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! CPI / Fed Update March CPI data came in this week. Headline CPI came in at 5.0% YoY vs consensus of 5.1%. Headline CPI has now fallen for 9 consecutive months. Core CPI came in at 5.6% YoY vs consensus of 5.6%. The Fed minutes from the March meeting were also released.
FastSpring
APRIL 13, 2023
From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” Experience is the keyword here. Thanks to massive technological advances happening in big data and AI, Justin saw new possibilities for improved user experiences with a brand.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
Sparktoro
APRIL 27, 2023
When site owners and marketers log into their analytics tools to determine how visitors discover and reach their properties, they expect accurate information. Unfortunately, that data is often massively flawed. SparkToro partnered with Really Good Data in a recent experiment to drive 1000+ visits across 11 major social networks and observe how Google Analytics categorized these referrals.
SaaStr
APRIL 27, 2023
I was curious the other day how many of the recent Cloud and SaaS IPOs had founders that were equal co-founders from an equity perspective. That was how I was brought up (the first start-up job I had, the founders were equal shareholders). And I generally thought that 50:50 was the default, albeit with many exceptions. Well, I was wrong. Only 4 of the most recent ~30 SaaS/Cloud IPOs I looked at had equal founder ownership at IPO, Atlassian, Pagerduty, and (close enough) MongoDB and Amplitude:
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 2, 2023
Burn multiple measures the capital efficiency of a startup. Burn multiple calculated like this : net burn divided by net new ARR. Startup burn multiples have changed markedly in 2023. Companies with more efficient burn multiples between 1-2 plan to increase their net burn per new dollar of bookings by between 14-40%. In contrast, startups with higher operating expenses will reduce their burn multiple by 34-70%.
The Daily Egg
APRIL 28, 2023
Hunter.io finds email addresses to help you connect with people on your business radar. This simple yet potent tool can find contacts. The post Hunter.io Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Clouded Judgement
APRIL 12, 2023
Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. The 63 companies that I’ll discuss here (which is not an exhaustive list, but is still comprehensive) all reported quarterly earnings sometime between January 25th – March 30th. In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way.
FastSpring
APRIL 20, 2023
This article contains information about FastSpring’s current SEPA Direct Debit support. If you want to know more about SEPA and how it works, read our post on that topic here. When you’re selling software internationally, it’s vital to give your buyers payment methods that are both familiar and convenient to them. This eliminates friction in the purchasing experience, leading to increased customer acquisition and revenue.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 14, 2023
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying … The post The Modern Transactional Stack appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
APRIL 1, 2023
So everyone is now paying the price for lowering the bar in the Boom Times of mid ‘20 to early ‘22. On the hiring side, it often seemed like you just couldn’t hire anyone. While layoffs are all across the news today, looking back, July 2021 was the nadir for layoffs. Everyone was hiring everyone, anyone, back in mid-2021. This data from Carta helps illustrate it: So we cut corners.
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ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience. This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users.
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 23, 2023
Software spending in 2024 should rise 12%, increasing from 9% last year according to Gartner. Overall spending will rise from $4.4t to $4.6t. Why doesn’t it feel that way? Devices will be the only category to decline. CDW, a $20b distributor of software & hardware, announced earnings last week & their results echoed these. CDW has a significant government & education business.
The Daily Egg
APRIL 7, 2023
ReQtest is a comprehensive solution for IT teams looking for streamlined requirements management, test management, and bug-tracking capabilities. Thanks to its highly. The post ReQtest Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Sparktoro
APRIL 2, 2023
Anyone can make it. Most of it is at least OK. Some of it’s pretty good. A few folks are already sharpening their skills at prompting AIs to generate increasingly high-quality material.
IT World
APRIL 4, 2023
Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, part of Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity tools. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the software license up front and own it forever (what the company calls the “perpetual” version of the suite), or they can purchase a Microsoft
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
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 20, 2023
In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? In 2013, Marc Andreessen observed that the … The post Hey Tech, It’s Time To Build. In Healthcare. appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
APRIL 10, 2023
So the funding platforms, law firms and data sources that track venture all use slightly different data sets, and come to slightly different conclusions. But they all align on one thing: venture investments post-seed stage are way down. How down? The latest CB Insights data I thought summarized it the most elegantly: Deals were down to a 5+ year low , not just lower than the go-go days of late 2020 to late 2021, but down from every single quarter in 2019 and 2018, too.
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 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 later this week. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each.
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