Predictable Revenue
APRIL 19, 2023
Josh Schwartz joins Collin Stewart on the Predictable Revenue Podcast to discuss the importance of building rapport with prospects and different social selling tactics to stand out. The post Social Selling Tactics to Stand Out with Josh Schwartz appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 16, 2023
In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. In the past two years, the correlation has grown stronger from -0.46 correlation to -0.51. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023.
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Inturact
APRIL 18, 2023
Your app onboarding experience is the gateway to user retention and long-term success. So, how do you make sure your onboarding process is engaging, effective, and enjoyable? In this blog, we won't give you a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, we will explore the different approaches to app onboarding, the dos and don'ts, and the best practices.
CloseSaaS
APRIL 20, 2023
SMS deliverability is a measure of how many of your sent messages make it to their intended recipients, and can be a critical part of the sales process
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
TurnKey Labs
APRIL 19, 2023
Got a great idea but can’t bankroll the development? We get it! You’ve survived those grueling early days thanks to a lot of grit—but now getting it off the ground requires REAL cash. For many start-ups, this phase often means finding funds long before the idea is ready for prime time.
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Sales Hacker
APRIL 18, 2023
Video is the absolute best tool for job hunters. Hands down. It’s the open secret to success! It’s the future, and the future is here. (It’s just not widely distributed yet). If you want to get a leg up and 10x your job hunt results, then stay with me for the whys and hows of sending video as a job hunter. Table of contents Joel’s background: 80% interview rate, 0 sales experience Burn your resume!
Kalungi
APRIL 19, 2023
In today's digital age, social media has become an essential tool for SaaS companies to connect with their audience and promote their products or services. However, with so many social media platforms available, choosing which ones are best suited for your SaaS marketing strategy can be overwhelming.
Sparktoro
APRIL 16, 2023
Customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased significantly over the past decade. This is true for both B2B and B2C companies, with CAC across both industries being up about 70%, according to subscription software company ProfitWell. In other words, it’s becoming a lot more expensive to acquire customers. What to do?
30 Day Leadership
APRIL 19, 2023
Employees leave bosses, not companies! The hard costs associated with an employee leaving are generally 1.5 - 2X the employee’s salary. The costs associated with lost time, opportunities, and productivity are much greater. When it comes down to it, you better be thinking about how to retain your best employees. On this episode, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje explains how leaders can retain their best employees by focusing on four key areas of growth.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
SaaStr
APRIL 17, 2023
So both of SaaStr’s mega events are coming up. First up, the 4th SaaStr Europa is finally coming to London on 6-7 June. 4,000+ of us will get together there to share, scale and learn. Next up is the 9th SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area , Sep 6-8, once again in sunny San Mateo on our 40 acre campus right between Palo Alto and San Francisco. 11,000-12,000 of us will gather there this year. 11 stages, 1000 mentoring sessions and braindates, 800+ VCs.
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 18, 2023
Every company will be an AI company. Every startup needs an AI strategy - not just for fundraising or press appeal. User expectations have changed. When one email composer window autocompletes sentences, every email product will need to follow. When one customer support bot provides a meaningfully better experience to answer questions, every competitor will match it.
FastSpring
APRIL 20, 2023
This article contains information about FastSpring’s current SEPA Direct Debit support. If you want to know more about SEPA and how it works, read our post on that topic here. When you’re selling software internationally, it’s vital to give your buyers payment methods that are both familiar and convenient to them. This eliminates friction in the purchasing experience, leading to increased customer acquisition and revenue.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 20, 2023
In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? In 2013, Marc Andreessen observed that the … The post Hey Tech, It’s Time To Build. In Healthcare. appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2023
So there’s a strategy exercise I like to go through with startups I’ve invested in that are past $20m-$30m ARR or so: Who would you buy with 10% of your market cap? I.e., who would give 10% of your company away to buy? It turns out this is an important threshold. The SEC generally defines this as “material”. It’s also enough of your company that everyone will suffer a lot of dilution, and enough that you can’t do more than a handful of these deals ever.
IT World
APRIL 17, 2023
Google has released Chrome version 112.0.5615.121 to address a vulnerability that can allow malicious code execution on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
Clouded Judgement
APRIL 21, 2023
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Q1 Earnings Season We’re on the eve of Q1 earning season. Next week we get all 3 hyperscalers reporting (AWS from Amazon, Azure from Microsoft, and GCP from Google). If we look at the trends in their most recent quarters YoY growth rates (below) you’ll see the deceleration has been meaningful.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 19, 2023
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used in the financial services industry for more than a decade, enabling enhancements that range from better underwriting to improved foundational fraud scores. Generative AI via large language models (LLMs) represents a monumental … The post Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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
APRIL 21, 2023
So we’ve posted a lot on SaaStr on the year on how to understand how VCs think. On how they need to invest in unicorns not just to make money, but just to survive. But what does it take to be a truly elite VC? And if you meet with a truly elite VC, what are they looking for? Truly elite VCs have Billion Dollar Positions. This is a much higher bar, and achievement, than merely a billion dollar sale, or a billion dollar IPO.
IT World
APRIL 21, 2023
There's no doubt generative AI models such as ChatGTP, BingChat, or GoogleBard can deliver massive efficiency benefits — but they bring with them major cybersecurity and privacy concerns along with accuracy worries. It's already known that these programs — especially ChatGTP itself — make up facts and repeatedly lie. Far more troubling, no one seems to understand why and how these lies, coyly dubbed "hallucinations," are happening.
Predictable Revenue
APRIL 19, 2023
In today’s digital age, traditional methods of building rapport, such as face-to-face meetings, are […] The post Social Selling Tactics to Stand Out with Josh Schwartz appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Buffer Resources
APRIL 19, 2023
Many business owners assume that the quickest way to grow is to pay to get in front of potential customers (or to do tons of cold outreach). But I never even considered that approach, and I’ve still managed to grow a thriving business in less than two years. When I decided to launch my disability public speaking and DEI consulting business in 2021, I didn’t have any background in the industry.
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SaaStr
APRIL 19, 2023
So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. The one most of us know best in Toast, because we all use Toast so often when we go out to dinner. And it indeed has strong market share there. And perhaps the one we know second-best is Square. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square.
IT World
APRIL 21, 2023
So, you've got email, you say? Lots of it? More than you can possibly manage without losing the few metaphorical marbles still sloshing around in that soggy ol' brain of yours? I hear ya. In fact, I think we all can relate (even those of us whose brains are, erm, slightly less soggy). And I'm here to tell you: It doesn't have to be so difficult. Gmail has a variety of built-in tools for making your messages more manageable.
Totango
APRIL 18, 2023
Welcome to the era of “do more with less.” That phrase has become the earworm of 2023, stuck in our head no matter how many other tunes we try to sing. In this uncertain time, many business leaders are seeing budget cuts, longer sales cycles, and forecasts being continually reexamined … but there is good news. This is the moment for CS to shine. As businesses are laser-focused on retaining and growing current clients, they’re turning to their customer success (CS) teams and leaders to make it h
User Pilot
APRIL 21, 2023
What is product analysis and what are its benefits? These are just a couple of questions we answer in the article. We also explore: Different types of product analysis The steps needed to analyze your product The tools you can use Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Product analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data about various aspects of product performance.
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
APRIL 18, 2023
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Things Startups Just Have to Get Right? Let’s break it down. Let’s talk about what you don’t have to get right: Rockstar Founders? Not required. Yes, to build the next Slack, the next Amazon, the next Tesla, whatever, perhaps you need one of the greatest founders of all time. But many founders at very successful start-ups are smart and incredibly driven, but no Elon Musk.
IT World
APRIL 21, 2023
The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.
Sales Hacker
APRIL 16, 2023
Get ready for the ultimate sequence workshop for SaaS AEs! If you’re prospecting into small to medium-sized businesses on your own, then this 30-minute, fun and interactive session is a no-brainer. Guest: Erin Leonard – Account Executive at Outreach We’ll focus on: Sequence structure (how many calls, emails, LinkedIn touches you should include) Utilizing automation to your advantage (follow-up sequences, voicemail drops, Outreach features) Personalization and tone of emails to
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