SaaStr
MARCH 27, 2022
A ways back, a Naval post on Twitter had my reflecting on the top advice I’d give to my younger CEO self: I missed one of the key Top 10 points — I ran out of 240 characters on Twitter), but thought it might be worth breaking them down in more detail on SaaStr below: 1. Go Long. This can be hard. The first start-up I ever joined as an employee was quickly acquired for $200m, which became $1 billion (!
Predictable Revenue
MARCH 24, 2022
Todd Caponi joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how being more transparent with buyers can increase revenue and shorten your outbound sales cycle. The post Why Transparency Sells Better Than Perfection appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Tom Tunguz
MARCH 8, 2022
Startups create products. After product-market fit, product teams hew the product roadmap from a panoply of options to the features best aligned with the company’s plans. In much the same way, CEOs architect the organization that builds, markets, sells, and supports the product. When a business is ready to scale, a startup ought to develop an organizational roadmap.
The Daily Egg
MARCH 23, 2022
Pipedrive is a full-service sales platform that helps around 100,000 businesses grow their revenue with precision. Visualize your sales process in this. The post Pipedrive Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 28, 2022
How do you set your business up for consistent, continuous growth? It’s the million dollar question that businesses face every day. To answer it, we believe that there are three recurring trends that are shaping the future of business: First, businesses across all industries are facing pressure to become digital businesses. While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SaaStr
MARCH 23, 2022
SaaS is Back!! pic.twitter.com/jFqQ6zRz6A. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) March 21, 2022. Recently a number of founders have reached out to me about offers to acquire their company from Private Equity firms like Thoma Bravo, Vista, etc. Some offers are more real than others, but there’s an army of associates, principals and vice presidents at top PE firms looking for SaaS companies at $10m-$1000m ARR to acquire.
Predictable Revenue
MARCH 28, 2022
Inbound and outbound sales each require a unique approach, and there are several key differences to consider when it comes to building your sales playbooks. The post Key Differences Between Inbound and Outbound Sales Playbooks appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 31, 2022
There are roughly 27m software developers in the world. Only about 18k of them , or 0.07%, work on crypto or web3 every month. Those 18,000 active engineers have created $2 trillion in market cap across the top 100 projects - $112m of value per person. With such massive potential impact, why are there so few engineers working on web3? Crypto is young.
The Daily Egg
MARCH 1, 2022
Are you a small business owner who is looking for ways to accept credit card payments? If so, you’re in the right. The post How to Accept Credit Card Payments appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 24, 2022
Intercom was born out of a simple idea – to make internet business personal. And ever since that first release over 10 years ago, we’ve stayed true to that mission. But the technology, market, and customer needs have evolved since then, and for businesses to thrive, they need next-generation tools that are purpose-built to meet these evolving needs.
FastSpring
MARCH 10, 2022
The FastSpring product team is happy to announce the release of Paused Subscriptions , a new built-in feature to help you lower churn: This new feature enables customers to pause active subscriptions and temporarily disable billing and services. Here’s how it works: Lower churn by pausing subscriptions. Enabling the pause feature will give customers an additional option if they attempt to cancel their subscription.
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2022
Dear SaaStr: When Is It Too Early to Hire a CRO or a COO? I used to think CROs and COOs were made up titles until “Late Stage” or so, and in startups, a bit of a sign of weakness. Signs a weak CEO was giving away a fancy title to someone that wasn’t really willing to do the work. I used to think there’s no way a SaaS startup needed a “CRO” or “COO” (or even “CMO”) or other C-level Officers Without a Clear, Single Functional Area to Own Until $40m-50m+ in ARR.
Predictable Revenue
MARCH 3, 2022
Shawn Rhodes joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how systematizing the outbound sales process can help improve your conversion rates. The post Removing Hope From Outbound Sales To Increase Conversion appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 10, 2022
I’m going to tell you a bit about two startups and I’d like you to guess the name of each company. Both of these businesses are publicly traded. Both startups provide database software to developers to build applications. Both have grown very fast. In fact, their revenue trajectories through 2020 are nearly identical. Both companies employ a usage-based pricing model: pay for what you use.
The Daily Egg
MARCH 2, 2022
Planning for retirement can be scary. There’s so much information out there that it’s tough to know exactly what the best plan. The post Best Employee Retirement Plans appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 23, 2022
We’ve just wrapped up an incredible day of New at Intercom , our first global virtual launch event, where we discussed our vision for the future of customer engagement and unveiled some incredible new products. If you were there, you know first-hand how much news we shared throughout the event. If you weren’t, you’re probably wondering what you missed – read on to discover the biggest highlights from New at Intercom.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 23, 2022
Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse checks that are foundational to business operations to intelligently automating daily tasks through machine learning, data has become the.
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SaaStr
MARCH 8, 2022
These days folks just … aren’t doing reference checks like they used to. Why? Hiring is accelerated, and everyone’s poaching. Many folks don’t feel like they can really do reference checks well for someone they think they are poaching from a current role. I see many founders doing no reference checks at all anymore. They assume they can “tell” For VCs, deals happen so fast now, over Zoom, there’s less time.
Predictable Revenue
MARCH 14, 2022
Learn the top five reasons why AEs should be included in the SDR training process, and how greater communication between these roles can help you close more deals. The post Should AEs Be Training and Onboarding SDRs? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 9, 2022
A decade ago, Gainsight championed the creation of the customer success category. People curious and passionate about customer success convened at the Pulse conference to debate customer success. In 2013 and 2015, the discipline’s merits dominated the conversation. Soon thereafter, the most common question became how to build and run a CS team, replacing why start a CS team.
Unbounce
MARCH 22, 2022
Ever find yourself scrolling through a page, wishing you could get somewhere a little quicker? Sure, headings help when it comes to finding something particular on a page. But sometimes, a shortcut would be nice to get straight to your destination. That’s where a simple, tiny tool like an anchor link comes in handy. An anchor link lets a visitor jump between sections of a page.
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Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 1, 2022
We are in the midst of a complete transformation in how companies and customers interact with one another. As all businesses become at least partially digital businesses, customers expect those online interactions with companies to be convenient, effective, and personalized. That sort of engagement between businesses and customers is now happening on a scale that was impossible to imagine not so long ago.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 2, 2022
The artificial intelligence field has evolved dramatically since the deep learning revolution kicked off in 2012, and Richard Socher has been around for all of it. He earned his PhD from Stanford working on NLP (natural language processing) before co-founding an AI startup called MetaMind in 2013. He then spent several years leading the AI. Read More.
SaaStr
MARCH 11, 2022
So every VC is trying to figure out exactly what is going on in the public markets, and many later stage VCs are quite stressed. This version of the BVP Nasdaq Index illustrates the question. Was the “Covid Boost” in Cloud multiples just an anomoly? Put differently, if you look at multiples of revenue for top SaaS and Cloud companies above from 2014-2022, you could come to one of (at least) two conclusions today: Conclusion #1: Q2’20-Q4’22 Cloud Revenue Multiples Were a
Predictable Revenue
MARCH 15, 2022
Simeon Atkins joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss leveraging ABM for more effective sales development outreach. The post Leveraging ABM to Reach Prospects That Are Actually Worth Your Time appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 27, 2022
Before a startup is founded, no stock exists. By the time it’s public, more than 100m shares exist across hundreds of shareholders (employees, institutional investors, retail investors). Through its life, the company might buy back some shares, destroying them and reducing share count. The startup can inflate share count by creating shares. Conversely, the company can deflate share count by buying shares and destroying them.
Nimble - Sales
MARCH 23, 2022
March is Women’s History Month and we are excited to celebrate by bringing our Nimble community a list of our favorite business podcasts and blogs hosted by women! They’ve demonstrated impressive expertise in the industry and are an inspiration to business professionals everywhere. We’ve included 14 women on this list, all of which either host […].
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 10, 2022
The e-commerce landscape has grown exponentially since 2020, with experts predicting that the pandemic accelerated transformation of the digital space by up to five years. With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams.
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