Outseta
MAY 24, 2019
By Geoff Roberts One of the questions I field most often from other start-up founders and companies I help with content strategy is, “Should I start a podcast?” Podcasting is undeniably hot at the moment, especially with younger consumers—according to the New York Times 40% of people between 12 and 24 years old listened to a podcast last month, up 10% from 2018.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 20, 2019
As we grow in our careers, we first become individual contributors, then managers of individuals, and then managers of managers. That transition is a tough one, and one that comes very quickly in startups. A bit flips and a leader must begin to delegate. Delegation is the only way a leader of a team or company develops leverage in the organization. Someone told me about a Vanity Fair interview with former President Obama.
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SaaStr
MAY 18, 2019
Almost all of our 4,000+ pieces of content and 300+ SaaStr sessions and 250+ podcasts are really just about how to do … better. A smidge better. A bit better. Since SaaS compounds, even doing just 5% better now can compound dramatically over time. Everything doesn’t have to be 10x better to move the needle, if it compounds. But a lot of advice takes time to pan out.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 23, 2019
In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for …
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Intercom, Inc.
MAY 20, 2019
Picture this: You’re a product designer with a handful of years on your career path. You’ve cut your teeth on a few big launches and earned your stripes as a solid “mid level” product designer. Like many designers, you’re curious and ambitious. You look to the future and ask yourself, where do I want to be this time next year? What about in five years?
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SaaStr
MAY 19, 2019
Xero is one of those SaaS companies most of us have heard of and know is a big success and sort of know about, but, not really ??. What lessons can we learn from this huge Kiwi SMB success, for other founders? Here are a few: All the way until $600m+ ARR, the majority of Xero’s new bookings and revenue still came from Australia and New Zealand!
Tom Tunguz
MAY 24, 2019
Before you raise your next round, ask yourself this question. Are there any key people you need to hire? Essential executives, critical engineers, important managers or anyone else? Your common stock value, or 409a valuation will increase the second you receive a term sheet. And the strike price of any new options will increase with the 409a valuation.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 22, 2019
If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. Then you had to try to reach them via email and convince them to fill it out. But there’s a better way now. Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and a
Incredo
MAY 20, 2019
As a SaaS vendor, you should be familiar with how competitive the environment in this field is. Behavioral patterns change at a turbo rate when it comes to usage of various devices, and it affects the concepts of where the data is stored and where the processing is performed. Vendors like you react at the same rate and come up with helpful applications for the cloud paradigm.
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
MAY 20, 2019
We’re quickly approaching our second ever SaaStr Europa , and this time we’ll have 2 full days, with double networking, a stellar lineup of SaaS all-star speakers and of course, the best Happy Hours. With only 100 tickets left, there’s limited space to join the best of the best on 12-13 June in the heart of Paris, so if you’ve been considering attending SaaStr Europa, now’s your chance to snag one of the very last tickets. .
Predictable Revenue
MAY 20, 2019
For the topic of our first e-book, we decided to, well, start at the beginning: the cold and the cold email. The post The Cold Call and Cold Email: Part 1 of Predictable Revenue’s Outbound Sales Learnings from 2018 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 21, 2019
Since we first published Intercom on Onboarding back in 2016, awareness about the critical importance of excellent user onboarding has grown considerably. With the relentless rise of SaaS in particular, the need to help users find value and discover their “aha” moment is more important than ever. The one-off transaction has been superseded by an ongoing relationship, and excellent onboarding is central to the success of that relationship. “Onboarding is the one truly universal
Incredo
MAY 22, 2019
Simply having a SaaS product that is useful, easy to use, customizable and affordable is not enough in order to ensure a steady stream of users. Sad, but true. To attract customers and show how beneficial their product is, nearly every single SaaS company offers users a free trial. However, not all free trials convert the way SaaS vendors would like to see happen.
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
MAY 18, 2019
Many certainly do. Here is the standard clause in Salesforce’s MSA: A late payment fee clause is a good idea, and especially, to place prominently on your invoices. Why? As a start-up especially, you have few recourses if a customer doesn’t pay: You can turn off their service. Yes, vendors owned by PE firms and the like do this all the time (Marketo did this to us, and turned us off for 3 days due to us admittedly forgetting to pay the renewal).
Predictable Revenue
MAY 23, 2019
On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Travis Henry, Director of Inside Sales Operations at renowned Bay Area sales consultancy SalesSource. The post How LeadQuizzes’ Jeremy Ellens took his company from 0 to $1,000,000 (and beyond!) in annual revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
InsightSquared
MAY 24, 2019
The revenue operations event of the year, Ramp , is coming up in less than 3 weeks, so get ready! Join the InsightSquared team and 500+ revenue operations, sales and marketing leaders for two jammed pack days of networking, data-driven best practices and valuable insights from leaders in the industry. At Ramp, you’ll join our growing revenue ops community and bring back everything you learned to make a direct impact on your business, so you can spend more time improving sales and marketing proce
Neil Patel
MAY 21, 2019
Do you want to be instafamous? Well, who doesn’t? Over the last few months, I’ve been running numerous Instagram experiments and I’ve finally figured out how to grow my Instagram following. My Neil Patel account has been growing by 1,260 followers per week. And I know what you are thinking… Neil, you are already well known, this can’t be replicated by anyone else.
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SaaStr
MAY 23, 2019
Dave Kellogg is the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. David Kellogg – Former CEO @ Host Analytics. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Morning. Morning. Thank you all for attending this morning.
Sales Hacker
MAY 24, 2019
I have bad news… Deals aren’t qualified just the one time and then locked down as golden opportunities forever more; they need to be constantly tested and retested, with the goal of exiting (either one direction or the other) as soon as possible. My team and I interviewed 50+ sales leaders at companies like Dell, Workday, Oracle, and Cornerstone.
Chart Mogul
MAY 23, 2019
Christoph Janz (Partner at Point Nine Capital and investor in ChartMogul) has written a lot about the 5 different ways to build a $100M SaaS business using a hunting analogy. In this article we explore how you can use ChartMogul to find out which animal(s) you're hunting and how that can help you focus on your next stage of growth. Before we get started let’s just make clear that no-one is interested in actually hunting any of these wonderful animals ??.
Incredo
MAY 22, 2019
Simply having a SaaS product that is useful, easy to use, customizable and affordable is not enough in order to ensure a steady stream of users. Sad, but true. To attract customers and show how beneficial their product is, nearly every single SaaS company offers users a free trial. However, not all free trials convert the way SaaS vendors would like to see happen.
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SaaStr
MAY 22, 2019
Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest. Using magic (standard deviation) we came up with the best of the best of our sessions as voted by you, our SaaStr community.
Sales Hacker
MAY 21, 2019
What Does an Account Executive Do? An Account Executive (AE) is responsible both for serving the account needs of existing customers, and closing new deals. They typically have a revenue target, and are paid commissions on each sale they close. In SaaS sales, an AE usually works with a Sales Development Representative (SDR). The SDR specializes in the cold outreach and high-frequency communications needed to catch a prospect’s attention and set a sales meeting.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 23, 2019
On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Travis Henry, Director of Inside Sales Operations at renowned Bay Area sales consultancy SalesSource. The post How LeadQuizzes’ Jeremy Ellens took his company from 0 to $1,000,000 (and beyond!) in annual revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Incredo
MAY 22, 2019
Simply having a SaaS product that is useful, easy to use, customizable and affordable is not enough in order to ensure a steady stream of users. Sad, but true. To attract customers and show how beneficial their product is, nearly every single SaaS company offers users a free trial. However, not all free trials convert the way SaaS vendors would like to see happen.
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SaaStr
MAY 22, 2019
My #1 tip: Get Zen. Once you sell it, it is not yours anymore. And both your upside and your downside are now capped. You can no longer fail or run out of money, but really, you can no longer win in the same ways, either. You now have a much, much narrower role than you did before the deal, in most cases. Even if they tell you nothing has really changed.
OpenView Labs
MAY 24, 2019
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Inc. here. Picture this: you’re in a meeting with the executive team, and someone says, “It’s our most important problem.” Everyone around the table nods. As an executive coach, I know this is my moment to step in. I stop the action. “What do you think ‘it’ is?
Upscope
MAY 24, 2019
There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. Below we'll stick to a simple definition and then show you 7 examples of how companies implemented CX strategies. Contents Why have a CX Strategy. What are the common elements of a CX strategy. 7 CX strategy examples Avast cyber security Kone elevators Gusto payroll and HR service Dell computers A US Airport Southwest Airlines Nordstrum Why have a
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