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When to Go Multi-Product in SaaS

SaaStr

Roughly — very roughly — you want to be multiproduct in SaaS by the time you have 10,000 customers. For enterprise, this could be $300m-500m in ARR. For multi-market, this could be $100m in ARR. For SMB, it could be $20m-$30m in ARR. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) April 29, 2022. So a top theme across SaaStr CEO interviews since 2017 or so, and across our 5 Interesting Learnings series with public SaaS companies, is … when should you go multi-product?

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Top 7 Tactics for Customer Reactivation

Predictable Revenue

These seven customer reactivation strategies will help you reengage past clients, bring them back on board, and convince them to stick around long-term. The post Top 7 Tactics for Customer Reactivation appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a CS Platform: Not Thinking of Customer Success as a Team Sport

Totango

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not thinking of customer success as a team sport. . Unlike Finance or Human Resources or IT, “customer success” is not simply a department within your organization.

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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tom Tunguz

A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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The Average SaaS Leader Grows 54% … At $1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So now that we’ve been doing our 5 Interesting Learning series on public SaaS companies for a while, we can pull out a number of trends. Maybe the most jaw-dropping is just how fast the top SaaS and Cloud leaders grow … at $1 Billion in ARR. The average SaaS leader grows almost 60% (!) at $1B in ARR: Of course, not everyone is going to get to $1B in ARR :).

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Built for you: New channels of communication, improved reporting, and much more

Intercom, Inc.

As omnichannel experiences become more important to consumers and CX becomes a key differentiating factor for businesses, our product team has made it their mission to increase those capabilities within the Intercom platform. With that in mind, our new April features focus on increased and more efficient channels of communication, access to the right data to influence the way you grow and scale your business.

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Cash Flow Shockwaves

Tom Tunguz

The public markets are deep crimson. The last time VC sentiment was so publicly negative, Twitter turned two. Term sheet re-trading rumors have surfaced. Public markets do impact startup fortunes, but only inasmuch as the prices at which venture rounds clear. IT spend is the more important canary in the coal mine. If customers cut their software spend, startups should expect a harsher climate.

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SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here.

SaaStr

So the public markets are in tumult. Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. But Covid did create a lot of artificial demand for Cloud products, especially the lockdown phase. The boosts Zoom (can’t go to the office anymore), Shopify (can’t go to a store anymore) were real, but could never be sustained.

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Mailchimp Review

The Daily Egg

Mailchimp is one of the best-known marketing automation platforms on the market, thanks to its hefty advertising budget. The platform promises to. The post Mailchimp Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

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.

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Let’s talk principles: Exploring how we build product at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Principles are a way of encoding successes, allowing teams to repeat behaviors that lead to positive outcomes and avoid behaviors that lead to mistakes. Over the last ten years, we’ve developed, refined, and iterated on our principles to ensure they each represent an important part of the way we work, collaborate, and build product. We’ve recently kicked off a blog series exploring these principles, written by the people that know them best – our R&D team.

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5 Key Data Points about the Early Venture Market in Q1 2022

Tom Tunguz

AngelList published their quarterly state of venture report. I wrote down five data points that struck me: Q1 2022 was the most active quarter ever in Angellist history, and likely venture history. The term sheets signed in November and December closed in Q1, which may buoy these figures. In addition, late-stage investors moving into the seed stage market also buttress these stats. 83% of rounds in Q1 were up-rounds, which is statistically identical to Q4. late-stage market prices have declined

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Carta: Seed Rounds Down More Than 20% in Q1’22

SaaStr

Seed stage VC didn't escape the turmoil in later stages in Q1, according to @cartainc data. Total invested capital fell from Q4 (although remained above Q1 2021), but total rounds down over 20%. And April wasn't great either. ?? Full report out soon @alex @jasonlk @dunkhippo33 pic.twitter.com/NjU614rSdj. — Peter Walker (@PeterJ_Walker) May 2, 2022.

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Asana Vs. Monday

The Daily Egg

When you get project management software, you want to know it can handle your business’s workflow. Both Asana and Monday.com have their. The post Asana Vs. Monday appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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How Revenue Leaders Can Own Their Seat at the Table

Predictable Revenue

Tom Glason joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how revenue leaders can thrive and own their seat at the board table. The post How Revenue Leaders Can Own Their Seat at the Table appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Why Your Data Doesn’t Make Sense: 5 Things I Learned From Narrator Co-Founder Cedric Dussud

FastSpring

2013. It’s Cedric Dussud’s first week on the job as the new engineering director at WeWork. WeWork hasn’t yet become the beast of a company that changed the corporate world. It’s only managing a half-dozen offices in New York at the time. But it’s growing fast. That first week, Cedric got called into CEO Adam Neumann’s office. “So it’s him, and our head of our department, and me,” Cedric told me.

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Uncharted Podcast: Thejo Kote, CEO of Airbase, on What’s Different the Second Time Around

SaaStr

SaaStr’s Poya Osgouei has a great Uncharted podcast that does a deeper dive with many SaaS execs. Up this week is Thejo Kote, CEO of Airbase. His first startup, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for $100m. The second-timers see things differently. More on what Thejo’s doing different the second time here. We loved having Thejo Kote on the pod this past week.

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BigCommerce Review

The Daily Egg

BigCommerce is an essential ecommerce platform that has helped more than 150 online stores simplify management tasks, drive online traffic, and convert. The post BigCommerce Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse

Andreessen Horowitz

There has been a lot of buzz about “the metaverse” since its coinage the ‘90s, but especially during the pandemic (given the surge in online activity), and even more so after Facebook changed its name to Meta. Is this just a bit of opaque marketing-speak? What is a metaverse exactly? How does one define the. Read More. The post 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse appeared first on Future.

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The Ultimate Guide to TikTok Marketing

Unbounce

You can roll your eyes all you like, but it’s time we all started taking TikTok seriously. What was once the exclusive plaything of online teens is now a platform that people of all ages accept. It’s where millions of people spend hours, trapped in an endless scroll of content. And if you’re not marketing your brand here, you’re missing a massive open goal.

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SaaStr 2022 Events: Tested, Boosted and Open Air

SaaStr

We learned a lot from having the only major tech event in 2021 at SaaStr Annual. That it was possible to have a large-scale event that was 100% tested, vax’d, and primarily open air and outdoors. We’re continuing that in 2022, even as others aren’t. The rules in 2022 will be a bit different at SaaStr Europa on June 7-8 in Barcelona and SaaStr Annual on Sept 13-15 in the SF Bay Area due to local regulations, but the general requirements will be the same: * Everyone Vax’d and boosted.

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How Should CEOs Answer, “What Keeps You Up at Night?”

Kellblog

I’ve always felt that “what keeps you up at night?” was a trick question for CEOs. There’s one part of it I’m quite sure about. There cannot be anything that you control that keeps you up at night. Why? Because you’re the CEO. If something is keeping you up at night, well, do something about it. Stress, as I like to say, is for VPs and CXOs.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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The Future of Search Is Boutique

Andreessen Horowitz

This is an edited version of a post that originally ran here. For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland?” It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment. Read More. The post The Future of Search Is Boutique appeared first on Future.

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How many jobs are available in technology?

IT World

While all IT jobs lost during the pandemic have been recovered, the hiring of IT professionals is now being hindered by a lack of qualified individuals, according to the latest statistics. Even so, the IT job market continues to expand. Over the past year, more than 11,000 new IT positions have been added each month, according to IT employment consultancy Janco Associates.

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55 of the First Speakers at 2022 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

Ok we’re all gearing up for 2022 SaaStr Europa in Barcelona — join us there at the beach with 2,500 of your SaaS BFFs on June 7-8! But then after that it’s a spring to the 8th ever SaaStr Annual! SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 2022 in the SF Bay Area , 10,000+ of us together, spread out across 40+ acres outdoors, festival-style again! Take a look at just some of the epic speakers: Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia.

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Customer Health Score: A Guide to Improving Client Satisfaction

Totango

Customer health score is one of the fastest and easiest ways to assess whether your SaaS customers are satisfied with your product and brand. Knowing this can help you evaluate churn risk and spot opportunities, empowering you to take appropriate action. Here we’ll cover what you need to know about customer health scores. We’ll define customer health score, what metrics go into it, and what it tells you about customer accounts.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.

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To Start Building a Community, Master These Two Concepts

Andreessen Horowitz

Increasingly, building a successful startup involves not only building a product that people can’t get enough of, but also building an engaged, loyal community around that product. Today, most founders are acutely aware of the value of community. In CMX’s 2021 Community Industry Report, 86% of respondents (community managers from 508 different companies) said community.

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Product-Led vs Sales-Led: What’s the Difference, and Which One Is Right for You?

User Pilot

Product-led vs sales-led growth? This is a decision you and your product team will have to make at some point in your go-to-market strategy to drive growth. Choosing the right growth strategy is important for all SaaS companies because it plays a role in how successful your company will be. It lets you shape your product, customer experiences, and sales process in the very best way.

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Most “No’s” from VCs are Really No’s. But Time Can Turn Some into Yes’s.

SaaStr

When a VC says “No”, it means they are out. You can’t change their mind. Another Zoom won’t help. But — read the email carefully. Sometimes if truly, really was close … then another month or two of solid progress could lead to a “Yes”. In just 60 or 90 days. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) May 3, 2022. So fundraising is going through a tougher stretch.