SaaStr
JUNE 19, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Was The Best Advice You Ever Got From an Angel Investor. The best advice I ever got from one of my angel investors: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. I went to meet with one of my angels and mentors when things were probably toughest at my last start-up. My co-founder had walked out the door. We had about 4 months left of cash. I was out of ideas.
Predictable Revenue
JUNE 20, 2022
The team at Predictable Revenue has rounded up a list of the top 9 podcasts for sales leaders, so you can listen and learn from industry experts on the go. The post Round-Up: Top 9 Podcasts for Sales Leaders appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Sales Hacker
JUNE 20, 2022
In my newsletter several weeks ago, I hypothesized that we may experience a recession. It is our job as leaders and sales professionals to prepare for such an eventuality. You don’t want to be caught off guard and find yourself in the dangerous place of being reactive. Well, it looks like the likelihood of a recession is a lot higher. According to the Financial Times , the UK economy shrank in March by 0.1%.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 22, 2022
For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Web2 marketing employs the cookie as the primary identifier of a person, not a wallet. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. The behavioral patterns in web3 differ driven by anonymity, communication patterns on discord and telegram, and the consequences of using tokens as user acquisition, as governance
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The Daily Egg
JUNE 22, 2022
Microsoft Office has been a popular player in office suite software since the beginning. However, now there are so many other solutions. The post Microsoft Office Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Predictable Revenue
JUNE 20, 2022
Michael Zipursky joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to successfully run a remote business and tips for working remotely. The post How to Successfully Run a Remote Business appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 19, 2022
OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 23, 2022
Slack is a cloud-based business messaging app designed to meet the needs of teams in fast-paced and dynamic work environments. In its. The post Slack Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 24, 2022
Q: What are some common misconceptions about funding a startup? A few: Things are magically better when you get funded. It helps a bit, but in the first few rounds, you rarely raise enough to let you hire everyone you want, do every campaign you want, etc. It helps, but it’s not a radical change. You often overspend after raising your first round. Startups that have never raised a funding round often overspend right after.
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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.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 22, 2022
Today we’re delighted to announce new next-generation bot capabilities that will boost the power of your bots so that your customers get the help they need, faster. Bots are transforming the way businesses support their customers. At Intercom, we’re striving to make our automation bots as powerful as possible, offering companies the fastest way to resolve queries in the face of ever-increasing inbound volume and customer expectations.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 20, 2022
When Aileen Lee published “Welcome to the Unicorn Club” - the article that coined the word unicorn for a $1b startup - the average public SaaS company commanded a market cap of $1.5b. I remember thinking a $1b M&A or IPO was so rare an investor might hope to achieve it once or twice in a career. Fewer than 15 SaaS companies traded on public exchanges then.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 21, 2022
IDrive is a cloud storage software that allows you to back up your PCs, Macs, and mobile devices through an online cloud. The post IDrive Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 18, 2022
These are Strange Times Indeed in SaaS and Cloud. The best SaaS companies from Datadog to Snowflake to HubSpot to Salesforce are growing faster than ever, even past $1B or more in ARR. And yet, the stock market has taken a big tumble, leading among other things to dramatic change in the VC ecosystem. Venture funding almost overnight gotten twice or more as hard, often at half or less the valuation.
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
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 22, 2022
Today, we’re excited to launch Intercom SMS – increase engagement and encourage action with two-way SMS that connects you to your customers anytime, anywhere. For businesses looking for a reliable, fast, and effective way to communicate with their customers, SMS is a no-brainer. With an open rate of 98% , you can almost guarantee that your most crucial messages will reach your customers – and not only that, 95% will read those messages within three minutes.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 21, 2022
Yesterday, Office Hours welcomed Lee Kirkpatrick , former CFO at Twilio to share his experiences managing through three different recessions: the dotcom era, the Global Financial Crisis, and today. Lee headed finance for the company from $15m in ARR to more than $1b. In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 21, 2022
Choosing the right ecommerce platform to set up your store is imperative for online selling success. Square Online offers solutions for businesses. The post Square Online Store Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 22, 2022
Mutiny is putting on a focused and exciting digital event on July 13 on the latest in funnel conversion, and how marketing connects to revenue. I’ll be leading a deep dive with the CMOs of Salesforce, Box and Attentive (wow) and the rest of the sessions are strong. Sign up for FREE here : What is The Second Lever? The biggest challenge marketers face is the disconnect between marketing activities and revenue.
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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?
FastSpring
JUNE 22, 2022
The following article is a guest post written by Tony Minh Do, Marketing Manager at HubSpot. One of the most important parts of your store is the checkout page. Working with a website checkout page that will convert more visitors will help you increase sales. Knowing what to track and how to meet your guests’ concerns proactively is even better.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 23, 2022
Software buying is undergoing a transformation, as is the case with many industries in the post-pandemic market. The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. Instead of reaching out directly to a sales team, customers are taking matters into their own hands and looking to trusted peer reviews for guidance.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 22, 2022
Slack is an excellent business messaging app. It offers public and private channels, easy file sharing, and critical integrations with Zoom and. The post Slack Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 22, 2022
So fewer Cloud devops / commercial open source startups were more respected pre-IPO than HashiCorp — and still are. The product is there, the market is strong, the founders and CEO are great. At an almost $6B market cap, it’s a huge win, with a strong multiple at $400m ARR, growing a stunning 51%. It was a $10B-$15B+ company in the go-go times of 2021, and even though it’s executed to perfection since then, the markets have caught up even to the best of us.
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FastSpring
JUNE 22, 2022
We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 21, 2022
One of our most important Intercom values is “ we go further together.” That value doesn’t just apply to our work, it guides the way we relate to each other – and it’s especially relevant for Pride 2022. In a world that’s so determined to single out members of the LGBTQI+ community, we stand strong with the help of our allies. Our global community appreciates the importance of strength in numbers and a huge chunk of that margin are the allies that show up to love us, support us, and
Unbounce
JUNE 21, 2022
Sometimes you choose a hobby, sometimes a passion chooses you. And that’s exactly what happened when Peter Letts discovered scuba diving. He first dipped his toes as a nervous diver in 1992, but soon took to the deep end and became addicted to the sport. Almost 10 years later, he left a successful corporate career to turn his passion for the oceans into a business.
SaaStr
JUNE 23, 2022
So with times much tougher in the venture and public markets, you’ll see a lot more talk about tougher “terms” in VC rounds, especially later rounds: Structural terms, guaranteeing a certain return that many VCs will say are “more akin to debt”. Participating preferred, where investors get more than common in many acquisitions. More types of antidilution protection, including ratchets in later rounds, if there’s a down round or a down IPO.
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.
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 21, 2022
On behalf of a16z, I am thrilled to welcome Joe Morrissey as a General Partner to the a16z Growth team. Joe will focus on investing in enterprise companies—from the moment they’ve found product-market fit, all the way through to when … The post Joe Morrissey appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Sage Intacct
JUNE 23, 2022
If you’re the CFO of a subscription billing company, you want to bring clarity to decisions, understand where to invest, and track cash-flow and SaaS metrics, in the chaos of dynamic, competitive markets. The best CFOs balance out this equation by giving their departments clarity and direction with SaaS metrics and role-based financial dashboards.
Groove HQ
JUNE 24, 2022
Comparing WooCommerce and BigCommerce means comparing two of the larger ecomm platforms around -- if you're on WordPress, it's an easier choice, otherwise - we'll help you sort through the options. The post 2022 Ecommerce Platform Guide: WooCommerce vs BigCommerce appeared first on Groove Blog.
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