Sage Intacct
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Despite the role that CEOs, CTOs, and product managers play in a startup’s success, finance is the only department in a SaaS startup that touches every part of the customer journey. With a unique money-focused perspective, finance employees have access to data across every type of product and customer. So while SaaS CFOs are not the most talked-about startup leaders, they can have a huge impact on the business.
InsightSquared
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
When it comes to sales forecasting , it’s a simple truth: if you can see what’s coming, you can prepare and react accordingly. In many cases, you can even change future results before they become foregone conclusions. . If this year has shown us anything, it’s that sometimes it’s impossible to know what lay ahead. Sometimes you have to react on the fly, act on the best information you can find, and just give it all you’ve got.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Q: How long does it usually take to close a deal in SaaS? Ok here’s a really rough set of timelines to how long it takes to close an Opportunity in SaaS: So: A $5k deal, or say $499 a month, can often be closed in a call or two. Certainly the buying decision that can be made in a day, a week, or at least the same month. A $20k-$50k deal often takes 2–3 months.
The Daily Egg
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Remember being given praise for good attendance in school as a child? Why is it that good time and attendance creates successful outcomes for people? Mark Hunter, author and businessman, firmly believes that “it’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” Do you? Historically, businesses who manage their employees’ time […].
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Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
“It’s the Finals. It’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard.” After Game 2 of the NBA Finals said them to Steph Curry as they walked through the tunnel to the locker room after a loss. What’s true for basketball is also true for startups - at least in this case. With all the news of unicorns and IPOs and acquisitions driven by the broader market, teams can fall into a trap to think building a startup into a success is easier for others.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
There’s a fun — and very lucrative and rewarding — exercise I like to go through with most of the startups I work with. It’s goes like this: First, who’s your largest customer? OK. Now, do you have a prospect in the pipeline that’s somewhat similar? You do? Great. Now … On that deal … go quote twice your highest price ever.
The Daily Egg
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Finding a digital marketing service can be a sticky web of confusion if you don’t know what you’re looking for. It’s like going to the mall to shop but having no idea what you want—you’ll quickly become frustrated or waste money on something you really didn’t need. Digital marketing is no different. You can quickly […]. The post Best Digital Marketing Services appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 4, 2020
We wanted to explore the retail landscape through various distinct themes – offering a range of perspectives and experiences. So we started by delving into the physical history of the store, followed by how our habits have changed, then we looked at who and what is fuelling the shift online, and finally we considered how the events of 2020 might inform how we shop, plan, and build in the future.
Predictable Revenue
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Kieren O’Connor was breaking company records as a Commercial Director at Nobly POS by 22, and at 25 he is the co-founder of a consultancy that has generated over £10m in sales for its clients and is challenging traditional consultancies everywhere. The post The 4 Pillar Sales Process That Generated £10M in Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 2, 2020
My 7 top tips to increase sales quickly. Hire a great VP of Sales. Yes, I am a broken record here. But I’ve seen it 100+ times. Hire a great VP of Sales, and even if nothing else changes … she’ll increase the revenue per lead by 20–100%+. In one sales cycle or less. More here: How My VP, Sales Doubled Our Sales in 90 Days. And No, It Wasn’t… Raise prices 20% — on new customers.
FastSpring
DECEMBER 4, 2020
As an online merchant, you’ve probably heard the term B2B software floating around at some point or another. Whether it’s been in a conversation or in a business article, it may have left you wondering what exactly it means. The first and possibly most important thing you should know is that no, it’s not a British boy band. Now that that’s out of the way, we can move on to what it actually is and why your ecommerce business should get familiar with it.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 3, 2020
On the last Built for You episode, we talked about how customer feedback informs the features we build at Intercom. This week, we examine the conversations that led to Series , one of our biggest launches this year. Series wasn’t your typical project at Intercom. Instead of building on previous iterations with small, incremental changes that could be quickly shipped, this was a two-year-long enterprise designed almost entirely from scratch.
Neil Patel
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Ever have a really great idea for a product? You know, the kind of idea that makes you want to grab strangers by the shoulders and explain the whole thing in a rush. For the next few hours or even days, you find yourself revved up in high gear, eager to turn your big idea into reality. It’s an awesome feeling. There’s only one problem: what comes up must go down, and sometimes big ideas do just that – they flop, hard.
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
SaaStr
DECEMBER 1, 2020
We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about the damage a bad VP of Sales can do. They often make things much worse than they were before — and burn a year and half of your capital doing it. More on that, and the line between Great, Good and Bad here : But what if you are struggling to just find a Good VP of Sales … should you hire an Interim one?
Unbounce
DECEMBER 2, 2020
As a modern marketer, you’re expected to be a multitasker with a diverse skill set. “Multiple hats … love ‘em!” In reality, though, it’s a pretty tough gig. So, of course you’re constantly looking for ways to shrink the workload—and that includes beefing up your landing page copywriting skills to maximize conversions. What are the highest-performing landing pages doing that makes them so effective?
Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 3, 2020
For many enterprise startups, the predominant initial go to market (GTM) strategy has been “ growth + sales ”, which relies on a bottom up, product-led approach to acquiring and retaining users and customers. But after successfully executing on this … The post The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Neil Patel
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Ranking a website or web page today is not as easy as it was a couple of years ago. Not only is the competition stiffer, but the constant changes in the algorithms that determine rankings also make it more challenging to stay on top of your SEO game. As a business owner, keeping up with all these changes and regularly updating your website is something you might not have time for.
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SaaStr
DECEMBER 2, 2020
So this 5 Interesting Learnings post is a bit bittersweet. We’ve recently checked in with a bunch of our Cloud and SaaS favorites as they cross $1B in ARR: 5 Interesting Learnings from Zendesk. As It Crosses $1B in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot as It Approaches $1 Billion in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from RingCentral. As it Approaches $1B in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $1 Billion in ARR.
FastSpring
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Businesses are constantly trying to figure out how to increase customer retention rates. But what if your business model is designed to create repeat customers. Essentially, that’s the beauty of subscription business models. Subscription businesses get to profit from recurring purchases, and customers benefit from long-term savings and convenience. In a recent study , Zuora found that 71% of adults across 12 countries have subscription services.
Sales Hacker
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Imagine watching a basketball game without a scoreboard. It would be nearly impossible to understand what was happening or who was winning. Now imagine playing in that game. It would be difficult to know how far behind or ahead you were, how much time was left, or what you needed to do to win. That’s what selling without a sales dashboard is like. But a sales dashboard is only useful if it’s done well.
Neil Patel
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Building a business is thankless, difficult work. Sometimes, you just wish you had a little breathing room. Usually, business owners have an idea of how they’d like to scale and grow their business. The only problem? Capital. There’s just not enough money to drive the growth they’d like to see. It’s around this time that some businesses start to consider startup funding.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
Start-ups aren’t democracies, no matter what some employees may think. The CEO is the CEO, and the founders are the founders. But start-ups also aren’t IBM or Cisco. Or even, anything like DropBox or Slack or Box or Hubspot, not organizationally at least. From 1-10 employees, it’s a family. After 150 or so, somewhere in there, it starts to become a traditional hierarchical structure.
Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 4, 2020
The financial services industry is undergoing one of the largest transformations in its history. Like many seismic changes, initially change is slow and incremental and then a shift happens dramatically in a short time. We are at one such moment. … The post Investing in Moov: Open Source Financial Services Building Blocks appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Trint
DECEMBER 1, 2020
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Neil Patel
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Are you missing out on a huge section of your target audience? If you’re not using live streaming to engage with your followers, then you might be. The numbers behind live streaming are impressive , and if you’re not already, you should be incorporating this medium into your marketing strategy. Here’s how you can leverage live streaming to create crazy levels of engagement with your audience.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
What is the minimum projected annual revenue in the exit year and projected exit valuation for a startup to be investable from a VC? For most “traditional” U.S. VCs doing early-stage investment, the goal is simple: At least 1 investment out of every 20 or so per fund needs to be worth $1 Billion or more within 10–15 years. If that happens, the math generally works out.
Nimble - Sales
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Email marketing is one of the oldest digital marketing techniques that are still relevant. Almost every business with an online presence leverages email marketing to some extent. But, not everyone is equally successful at email marketing. In fact, in most cases, emails from businesses are either marked as spam or land in the promotions tab. […].
Trint
DECEMBER 1, 2020
London-based Edge Investments supported the round, led by The New York Times Company LONDON—December 1, 2020— Trint , the leading speech-to-text platform for content creation, today announced the close of its Series A Acceleration round with an investment of £5M (~$6.7M). The round, opened in August by The New York Times Company, closes with a £2M (~$2.6M) investment from Edge , the leading growth investor in the UK creative economy.
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