SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Ways to Reduce Stress in a SaaS Startup? For me, at least, I’ve seen three things make the biggest difference in reducing stress as you scale from $1m to $10m ARR … and beyond … __. 1. Add an “ex-post facto co-founder” and/or upgrade the management team. In my first start-up, my co-founder and I met for 20 minutes at the end of every single day, and had lunch as often as we could. 50% of this was just dealing with stress and unscripted issues.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In a market full of bears, we are bulls when it comes to consumer health companies. In our last piece, we made the bold claim that a consumer health tech company will become the biggest company in the world … The post Consumer Health: Areas of Opportunity appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Agile Payments

DECEMBER 8, 2022

7 Tips to Increase Your SaaS Website Leads and Sales.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The content in your blog is the most important aspect of creating a successful blog. After all, you want your readers to. The post What Is Blog Design All About? The Complete Guide appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Predictable Revenue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Learn the key differences between outside and inside sales reps, the benefits of each model, and how to determine which is right for your business. The post What is Inside Sales? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Every week, I scour the web to pick the top SaaS reads for our weekly newsletter, the SaaS Roundup. This year alone, I shared over 200 curated reads on leadership, growth, pricing, SaaS metrics, benchmarks, and much more. Here are the best reads of 2022; those articles and charts that resonated most with 19,000 weekly … Every week, I scour the web to pick the top SaaS reads for our weekly newsletter, the SaaS Roundup.

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Dubb

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this recap from a Dubb Support video, we are going to take a deep dive into how to directly attach video and how to embed video through some of Dubb’s tools. This is a great discussion that can help you supercharge your work within Gmail. Even if you aren’t a Gmail user, you. The post A Gmail Integration to Directly Attach Video and How to Embed Video appeared first on Dubb Blog.

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SaaS Metrics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you are a business owner, your primary considerations surely fall on ensuring productive daily tasks and making important decisions. Large and small businesses operate on data regardless of the size of the reasons and purposes. You need to use software or apps to handle these critical business operations to speed up. Read more. The post How Cloud Computing Help Businesses Achieve A Milestone Even During Crisis first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Profitability or net income margin has become the most important correlate to public software company valuations. But public companies are less profitable today than a year ago. Surprisingly, PLG companies’ profitability has suffered more than sales-led businesses. Across every quartile, public software & infrastructure companies have seen a 5 percentage point drop in net income since Covid.

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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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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Among the seven tools we reviewed for this post, SEOmator is our favorite technical SEO audit tool on the market today. It. The post Best Technical SEO Audit Tools Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Your family will never really understand what you go through as a founder. And what it really takes. Not really. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin ? (@jasonlk) December 3, 2022. So as the years have gone by, we’ve all begun to understand SaaS a lot better. So many of the leaders in SaaS have now crossed $1B in ARR, from Box to Cloudflare to Okta to HubSpot to ZoomInfo, and so many more are coming up on it fast, from Smartsheet to Monday to Asana and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. We chatted about DALL-E, GPT-3, and if the hype surrounding AI is just that or if there was something to it. He told us things were starting to scale. And just like that, we’re at it again. ChatGPT , OpenAI’s prototype artificial intelligence chatbot, launched last week and it has been making the rounds in the halls of the internet, inspiring amazed react

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2022

These are the top 10 posts by engagement for 2022 at tomtunguz.com. Reflecting on them, I see they clustered on web3 & the fundraising market, both of which experienced a tumultuous year. Selling in the pandemic & post-pandemic also drew a lot of interest. I’m grateful to everyone who read them, commented, debated, & shared them. The Web 3 Marketing Stack: The Next Big Wave in Crypto.

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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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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Of the eight platforms we reviewed, GoDaddy Auction is our favorite domain auction site. It is one of the largest domain marketplaces. The post Best Domain Auction Sites Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2022

I wrote a version of this post way back in 2016. It created a lot of discussions and was more controversial then — that NPS was a great core metric. We’ve all evolved a lot since then. We’ve gotten great at measuring both NRR and GRR. And almost everyone does some sort of regular NPS survey. And most segment it across customer size or other segments.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Can High Growth Businesses Become Profitable? I went back and looked at the last ~50 software IPOs and benchmarked them across a number of metrics. One chart I found interesting was tracking how each business grew from the time they hit ~$75m ARR.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 9, 2022

After reviewing eight different solutions in this category, we found VWO to be our favorite A/B testing tool (that isn’t our own). The post Best A/B Testing Tools Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Almost everyone in sales is going to have to work harder next year. Better to embrace it now, if you haven’t already. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) December 8, 2022. So look, very few, if any, SaaS or Cloud companies are out there saying times are easier now than 12 months ago. Probably none. Everyone from Amazon to HubSpot to Salesforce is saying is tougher.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Our mission – the change we want to create – is to make internet business personal. Whether we’re creating tools that improve personalization or strengthening our privacy and security, Intercom has always been committed to bringing a personal touch to every change we make to our product. This is the ninth post in a series exploring our product principles.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. In this piece, we’ll be comparing 7 SaaS billing solutions that we separate into three categories: Subscription management: This type of software lets you automate free trials, recurring payment schedules, and the dunning process.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Of the seven services we review in this post, Hibu is our favorite local SEO service. This all-in-one digital marketing solutions provider. The post Best Local SEO Services Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Maybe a Little Less Twitter and LinkedIn, And a Little More SEO and List Building. Dear SaaStr: How Do I Develop Inbound Leads in a New Category? The 3 Financial Plans You Need for The Year: C-90, C-60 and C-10 (Updated).

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Sparktoro

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since our launch in 2020, SparkToro has helped thousands of marketers uncover the most popular demographic and behavioral attributes of their target audiences. Emphasis on “most popular” That data is undoubtedly valuable: it helps folks know where and how to reach their customers online.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

There are only so many hours in a day. 24, to be exact. And if you’re like me, you have a list of seemingly never-ending tasks to fill those hours. Social media posts, blog posts, SEO, PPC, financials, processes – you name it. But when you’re scaling and growing your small business, you need to start cutting time from as many tedious tasks as possible.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Daily Egg

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Of the nine DNS hosting solutions we researched and reviewed, ClouDNS is our favorite DNS hosting provider on the market today. It’s. The post Best DNS Hosting Providers Compared appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2022

At SaaStr Scale this year, Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot joined us, and I thought it was really an A+ discussion. We’ll share another post on the convo with a summary of all the learnings, transcript, the podcast etc. — but I thought I’d share my Top 10 Learnings ahead of that while they are top of mind: 1. HubSpot has to sell to more stakeholders now.

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IT World

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Apple today introduced several new security features focused on fending off threats to user data in the cloud, including end-to-end encryption for backups for iCloud users. Along with end-to-end encryption for iCloud , Apple’s cloud storage and computing platform, the company announced iMessage Contact Key Verification, allowing users to verify they are communicating only with whom they intend.

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