SaaStr

JULY 19, 2023

2023 has been a difficult year for many tech companies. Markets have been all over the place, layoffs occurred, and investors weren’t funding as much as usual. However, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund & Host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast , believes there are reasons to be optimistic for the rest of 2023. In a special workshop, Sam shares advice on how to spot bottlenecks, reallocate the right resources, and grow revenue in 2023.

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Predictable Revenue

JULY 18, 2023

Amir Reiter from CloudTask joins the Predictable Revenue Podcast to shed light on hiring remotely and building a global team. The post The Art of Global Hiring with Amir Reiter appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Teamgate

JULY 19, 2023

In this article, you’ll gain exclusive insights into the strategies used by eight industry-leading marketers to craft email-closing phrases that seal deals. From invoking urgency to personalizing content and implementing scarcity tactics, you’ll learn how the right closing phrase can significantly impact the response rate and conversion success of your emails.

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The Daily Egg

JULY 17, 2023

Sellfy is a basic ecommerce website builder that can be best described as a starter store. While it may lack the robust. The post Sellfy Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2023

For many startups today feel like they are operating under dark skies. It’s supposed to be hard - you’re changing the world. Reflecting on the last three quarters : Startups have parted with colleagues to extend runway in a difficult fundraising market. Some have significant balance sheets & discovered the ostensible product-market fit isn’t as strong as the business may have believed.

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

Over the past year, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) human resources group has been using artificial intelligence (AI) and a chatbot to improve its talent acquisition and retention. And a company executive says the technology has turned things around dramatically. Prior to rolling the AI-based chatbot technology, half of those who’d land on HPE’s career page looking for jobs would leave without ever applying.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 18, 2023

Getting 50 leads in a month, over 1,000 followers in a week, and 100,000 impressions in a month. You’ve probably seen social media marketers boasting these kinds of results on Instagram. But how do they do it? Their strategies can help you grow your online business to unimaginable heights. In this blog, I uncover unique tips from top social media managers who’ve revived defunct accounts and increased their clients’ reach to thousands of followers within a few days of working

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Infinicept

JULY 19, 2023

When: August 11 at 11:00 AM MDT / 1:00 PM EDT Get excited! We have a new live webinar coming, Playing It Safe: Demystifying Underwriting & Risk Management for Business Wins! Join us to discover what it takes for businesses to ace Underwriting and keep Risk Management on point. Learn how to onboard merchants like a pro, insights and strategies for risk management, monitoring, mitigation, and more.

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The Daily Egg

JULY 21, 2023

With tons of options on the market for building a website, it’s hard for any company to stand out. They all have. The post Duda Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2023

Hypergrowth in today’s highly competitive and budget-constrained SaaS world may be less frequent now, but Vanta, the software tool empowering security companies to achieve compliance and manage risk, has defied the odds. With a multi-billion dollar valuation and a trajectory to double growth annually, Vanta is seizing the spotlight. In this session, CEO and Founder Christina Cacioppo, and GM of EMEA Andrew Foley, reveal the strategies that have propelled Vanta’s remarkable scaling su

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2023

Last Monday, I published a chart that looked like this. It shows the standard deviation in Series A round sizes over time. I needed about 20 minutes using a language called R to create it. Then I tried to replicate it using ChatGPT3’s Code Interpreter feature & I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating it, most of the time waiting for the computer (see video at the end of the post).

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? There was some talk last week on the All-In podcast about software companies. Specifically Chamath said this: “From an OpEx perspective these businesses just suck. They don’t generate any free cash flow.” Quite the claim!

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

If you’re here looking for a tool to implement customer self-service portals, chances are you’ve been struggling to build one by yourself. Thankfully, there’re simple solutions in the market that can help you create an efficient resource center, that integrates smoothly and is 100% self-service. That said, let’s go over 13 tools that are perfectly capable of creating customer self-service portals and can potentially fit your needs.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2023

Vendr has its latest SaaS trends report out here and one metric I find very helpful is the State of Discounting. Vendr has its latest data here, showing the average discount across its customer base of about 10% — and coming down: The trends are interesting, and perhaps the opposite of what I would have expected — discounting peaked in the Go-Go Times of 2020, and then have come down since mid-2022.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 19, 2023

I’ve dreamed of working for myself forever. My senior project in high school was writing a business plan, I have notebooks full of ideas for new companies, and I even went to school for entrepreneurship. But, instead of jumping into doing my own thing after graduating, I spent years unhappily working for other people. What stopped me from going out on my own?

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Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

I was recently on Lenny Rachitksy’s podcast again, and one of the topics we discussed was consumer subscription business. I thought I would actually write down a lot of those thoughts and add some more depth for founders and employees working on these businesses. Don’t worry I got more marketplace content on the way as well Shortly after I got into tech, investors started to fall in love with subscription business models, mostly on the B2B side.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money. Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build succes

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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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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2023

We’re less than 60 days out to 2023 SaaStrAnnual.com ! We’ll bring together 12,000 of the top Cloud executives, VCs and more together Sep 6-8 in Silicon Valley!! Even now you can use this special code to come for the very, very last discount. Realistically, any CEO or VP at a post-revenue start-up can afford to come to Annual. But many others cannot.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 17, 2023

Since adding short-form video through Shorts in 2021, YouTube has opened up to more creators. And by going a step further to add Shorts creators to the YouTube Partner program, the possibilities for monetization on the platform have increased tenfold. 💡 Schedule your YouTube Shorts in Buffer → YouTubers can monetize their content in several ways, from brand sponsorships to selling merchandise.

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Sparktoro

JULY 20, 2023

If you work in marketing, there’s a good chance your leadership has asked you about Threads. If you work in social media marketing, then leadership has almost certainly asked for your early reaction to Meta’s Twitter clone. Should we make an account? Should we cross-post from our top-performing social media channel? What’s our content strategy? Whew.

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User Pilot

JULY 17, 2023

Searching for the best software for customer feedback to truly understand your customer sentiment ? Software for customer feedback has become essential for SaaS businesses that have customers in their hearts. Actionable insights from feedback help you better align your product with customers’ needs and retain them for longer. In this article, we’ve curated the 12 best software for customer feedback with all their ins and outs to help you choose which is the best fit.

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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Key Habits Of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs? The most successful entrepreneurs I’ve invested in (6+ unicorns, 3 billion+ exits) are very different in many ways. Some extroverts, some introverts. Some engineers by training, others in sales or product originally. Some seem to work 100 hours a week, others seem to work hard but with more balance.

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Agile Payments

JULY 17, 2023

5 Ways to Improve Team Communication in The Workplace There’s no collaboration or teamwork without communication. Even if it didn’t improve efficiency and team cohesion (which it does), with an inefficient communication system, even the simplest task can be made incredibly difficult. Finishing a task without having a clear way to report that you’re done can make someone else miss a deadline waiting for you to finish your part.

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

Apple appears to be widening its lead over rival PC makers with yet another M-series chip iteration for Apple Silicon. Just one look at StatCounter’s current macOS data shows the extent to which the company’s move to develop its own Mac processors is invigorating the platform. Apple’s global macOS share now sits at 21.38% , while in the US it enjoys an even more pronounced share in excess of 31%.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

The undeniable advances in artificial intelligence have led to a plethora of new AI productivity tools across the globe. If you’re looking to accelerate product growth and adoption with the help of AI, you’re in the right place. From content creation, localization, image and video generation, or analytics, today we’ll be looking at the best tools that can help streamline various processes in just a few clicks!

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2023

So one of the parts of sales that will drive you a bit nuts as a founder is FUD and Counter-FUD. What’s FUD, if you haven’t heard the term before? Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Winning a deal vs. a competitor by getting the prospect to worry about the competitor. Often by stretching the truth a bit, or even a lot. I remember back in the day DocuSign got really aggressive on this in competing with us.

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Entrepreneur - SaaS

JULY 18, 2023

Boost the performance of your B2B SaaS content marketing using these five strategies.

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IT World

JULY 17, 2023

If you’re a small business or home user of Microsoft, you likely feel at times like a second-class citizen. I still remember when noted tech consultant Mark Minasi used to joke that Microsoft wrote software for the Fortune 499 — every major Fortune 500 company except Apple — which meant that for many years consumer and home users were just along for the ride with Microsoft’s big-enterprise goals.

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