SaaStr
APRIL 28, 2019
With Slack’s IPO data and financials finally public, what is left to know about the app we all use and have been reading about for years? What’s interesting to know about Slack … that we didn’t already know? ??. Slack is obviously a rocketship going from $0 to ~$600m+ ARR (!) in 5 years (OMG), growing 80%+ Year-over-Year, and more than 1 billion messages sent a week (!).
Unbounce
MAY 1, 2019
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketers are among the world’s most talented. They need to be. The pressure to acquire and retain users is high—to put it mildly. And when you’re a funded startup with investor pressure, as many are, this need to grow and sustain velocity can be yet more acute. After all, SaaS has a unique character. As technical infrastructure gets standardized and integrations become easier, more and more tools are entering an already crowded marketplace.
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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
MAY 1, 2019
Let me give this to you straight: Nobody really cares about your SaaS solution. They don’t care how it’s built. They don’t want to see a demo. And they don’t want to talk to you about it. At least not yet. No one has any interest in your solution… until they see that they have a problem and they suspect you may be able to solve it. An obvious, but too common mistake I know this sounds harsh and painfully obvious.
The Daily Egg
MAY 3, 2019
Whether you’re in charge of designing a website, flyer, brochure, magazine, ad, street sign, billboard, textbook or ebook, you know the importance a font brings to your design. Design without fonts would be like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the bread; it’s no longer a sandwich. It’s common to think of fonts only […] The post All You Need To Know About Fonts appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 29, 2019
Slack has transformed the way we work. By replacing email with beautiful and simple internal chat, Slack has productized productivity. Founded as a gaming company called Tiny Speck in 2009, the company’s initial product, Glitch, didn’t catch on as expected. So the business pivoted to commercialize an internal tool - a S earchable L og of A ll C onversation and K nowledge, Slack.
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Intercom, Inc.
MAY 2, 2019
Bangaly Kaba, Instacart’s VP of Growth, knows the typical growth journey for billion dollar companies well. Instacart is valued at nearly $8 billion and since joining, he’s helped to make the company’s services available to more than 80% of U.S. households and 60% of Canadian households. And before Instacart, Bangaly was at another “Insta” (Instagram), where he helped double the photo sharing platform’s monthly users to more than 1 billion.
The Daily Egg
APRIL 29, 2019
Welcome to Quick Hits CRO Tips from Crazy Egg! This is a new video resource series where we share advice, best practices, and strategies for how to boost your conversions, increase your revenue, and turn your visitors into customers — all in 2 minutes or less. Today we’re talking about visitor recordings — also known […] The post Quick Hits CRO Tips Episode 1: The Value of Visitor Recordings appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Incredo
APRIL 29, 2019
Having been involved in a number of SaaS companies over the last decade, we’ve noticed a series of recurring trends where growth is concerned. We recently attended SaaStr Annual with 14,000 other SaaS executives to discuss the latest trends in SaaS. In this piece we go through some of the prevailing trends and ideas within the SaaS industry in 2019, which small, medium and large SaaS companies alike should consider as key focus areas this year.
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2019
Not much changes in 1 year, but a lot really happens in 5. Or something like that. On that note, it was 5 years ago today we had the first SaaStr meet-up with content. A whole hour of it! With my VP of Sales Brendon Cassidy (then VP Sales at Talkdesk and more) and VP of Marketing Loretta Jones (now CMO at Mixmax), and one with Jon Miller (co-founder of Marketo and Engagio): But 700+ folks showed up, VCs from all the top firms from Sequoia to Andreesen to Emergence, and great CEOs from Wrike,
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.
APRIL 29, 2019
On this podcast, I’m going to be getting behind the mic regularly with Paul Adams , our SVP of Product, to share our latest thoughts on how to build a great product. Over the time we have worked together, Paul and I have had countless conversations about things like how to run a product org at scale , how to balance customer feedback on your product roadmap , how to spread a product-first mentality throughout a company, how to maintain design excellence in a fast growing R&D team, and
The Daily Egg
MAY 1, 2019
Welcome to Quick Hits CRO Tips from Crazy Egg! In this video resource series, we share advice, best practices, and strategies for how to boost your conversions, increase your revenue, and turn your visitors into customers — all in 2 minutes or less. This week we’re covering how you can use Visitor Recordings (also known […] The post Quick Hits CRO Tips Episode 4: What to Look For in Visitor Recordings appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Incredo
MAY 2, 2019
Leads. Leads = customers = profits. If you are asking yourself, “Why does my business-to-business (B2B) SaaS company need leads?” then you are in the wrong industry.
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2019
Join Molly Ford, Salesforce Global Equality Programs Senior Director, and Leyla Seka, Salesforce VP of Mobile for actionable advice they have applied on their own journey. Here are their lessons learned on driving change in gender equality, equal pay and racial equality within Salesforce. Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.
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
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 1, 2019
Every product design project is a bit like climbing a hill. You ascend the hill to gain perspective on the surrounding terrain, but you don’t know what’s on the other side – you’re figuring out how to approach the problem, and you uncover and resolve the unknowns. Once on top of the hill you have a clear view – you can see the shape of the landscape and make out the path down, you can picture what needs to be done to make progress.
The Daily Egg
APRIL 30, 2019
Welcome to Episode 2 of Quick Hits CRO Tips! In this video resource series, we share advice, best practices, and strategies for how to boost your conversions, increase your revenue, and turn your visitors into customers, all in 2 minutes or less. One piece of feedback we hear from a lot of customers about why […] The post Quick Hits CRO Tips Episode 2: How to Use Google Analytics with Visitor Recordings appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 2, 2019
On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Keith Cordeiro, Account Executive at Crosstex International and Host of the Philosophy Of Sales podcast. The post Meditation and the mindful sales rep with Keith Cordeiro appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
MAY 2, 2019
This is going to be fun. Next Tuesday, Sam Parr of the Hustle (with 1,000,000+ subscribers!!), Amelia Ibarra, VP of Marketing at SaaStr, and I will be talking about lessons learned in Content Marketing and Growth Marketing from SaaStr itself. We did a version of this together at The Hustle’s flagship event about a year ago, and it was a really special session.
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Neil Patel
APRIL 30, 2019
There’s a formula to SEO and as long as you follow it, you’ll get rankings. So, what’s this formula? Well, you write amazing content, optimize your code, create a great user experience, and you mix in some backlinks. Sounds simple, right? Well, the formula isn’t too complicated, but it does require hard work and patience. Now what makes SEO challenging isn’t the formula, or the time, or the patience.
The Daily Egg
MAY 1, 2019
Welcome to Quick Hits CRO Tips from Crazy Egg! In this video resource series, we share advice, best practices, and strategies for how to boost your conversions, increase your revenue, and turn your visitors into customers, all in 2 minutes or less. This week we’re focusing on visitor recordings — an often overlooked, but extremely […] The post Quick Hits CRO Tips Episode 3: How to Use Snapshot Reports with Visitor Recordings appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 27, 2019
Before Cortana, before Siri, before Alexa, even before smart interactive voice response (IVR) systems, there was Microsoft’s Office Assistant, one of the first widely deployed digital assistants that shipped as part of Microsoft Office in 1997.
SaaStr
MAY 2, 2019
Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad will highlight what defines success in each stage of the growth journey, and how to create a winning business with the right product, team, and culture.
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Incredo
MAY 2, 2019
Leads… Leads = customers = profits. If you are asking yourself, “Why does my business-to-business (B2B) SaaS company need leads?” then you are in the wrong industry. Maybe you should take up a career as a postal worker, or any other vocation in which you do not need to be on a perpetual hunting excursion for qualified leads. In the same notion that money doesn’t grow on trees, leads need to be chased down, tackled, and persuaded to convert themselves to customers.
Nimble - Sales
APRIL 30, 2019
Nimble is constantly innovating to help you build better relationships and engage more intelligently — everywhere you work. That’s why we’ve made it simpler than ever to organize, prioritize, and track activities (including calls, tasks, and events) for your important business contacts using our newly released Activities Listing tab. This brand new feature enables you […].
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 1, 2019
We started Andreessen Horowitz a decade ago with the goal of partnering with great founders by investing across all stages of the company lifecycle — from seed through late stage.
SaaStr
APRIL 28, 2019
In the early days, there are probably only 5 metrics that really matter: ARR. ARR Growth Rate. Burn Rate. Probably, NPS (more here: I Was Wrong. NPS is A Great Core Metric. | SaaStr ). And maybe … net revenue retention / churn. All the rest, maybe don’t obsess too much until you are bigger. What matters in the early days is: Do you have product-market fit?
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InsightSquared
MAY 3, 2019
Having an accurate sales forecast is critically important to the business. As these numbers roll up to the executive team and board members, many decisions are made from them including future investments, product launches, hiring and strategic planning. But the challenge remains: forecasting accurately is hard. There are many variables that contribute to the challenge of rolling up an accurate forecast on a consistent basis.
Nimble - Sales
MAY 2, 2019
Nimble now offers a two-way contact data synchronization, as well as automated data enrichment, for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central through our integration with PieSync. Small business teams can now gain easy access to complete business contact records that are otherwise locked up in Business Central and Dynamics 365 CRM, Office 365, social media, and […].
SaaSOptics
APRIL 30, 2019
I. often talk about B2B SaaS metrics from the perspective of what investors want. If you don’t have easy access to the metrics they expect (or, worse, if they’re wrong), your valuation could suffer and that’s the last thing SaaS founders, CEOs and CFOs want to hear. But on occasion, I’ll hear prospects say they don’t need SaaS metrics because they’re not raising capital yet.
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