SaaStr
JUNE 11, 2022
How frozen the venture markets are, roughly, by stage: Crossover: 95% Growth: 85% Series C: 75% Series B: 65% Series A: 50% Seed: 33%. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) June 9, 2022. So what exactly is going on in SaaS? On the one hand, Salesforce, Okta, Datadog and more are reporting record earnings. Salesforce is growing faster at $30 Billion in ARR than it did at $20 Billion in ARR!
Predictable Revenue
JUNE 13, 2022
Learn the key differences between sales and marketing messaging, and how those differences affect the success of your outbound sales techniques. The post How Messaging Differs for Sales vs. Marketing appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Totango
JUNE 15, 2022
Right now, we are on the cusp of an economic downturn. Inflation and interest rates are soaring, the stock market is plummeting, and organizations are being forced to make some difficult decisions. All companies are going through the exercise of evaluating their investments, deciding what to cut and what to keep, what strategies to use, and simply, how to weather the storm.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 17, 2022
The round extension is the most popular fundraising round today. You won’t find statistics detailing their rise in PitchBook or Crunchbase, but “reopening the last round” or “raising a round extension” precede pitches Startupland today. How does an extension impact a company’s cap table on average? Round dilution from VC dollars has been declining for the past decade.
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SaaStr
JUNE 17, 2022
So no source of funding data is perfect. Essentially every source lags, because deals are often reported far after they close. Most unicorn press releases you see were closed months ago. But AngelList’s data is probably as up-to-date as you can get. The data is more recent than most sources, since it is self-reported by the investors in the round and on the AngelList platform.
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Predictable Revenue
JUNE 14, 2022
Simon Severino joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to increase your return on luck as a business leader. The post How to Increase Your Return On Luck as a Business Leader appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 14, 2022
Lee Kirkpatrick is no stranger to downturns. During the dotcom crash in 2001, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and the SaaS corrections in 2014, 2016, and 2018, Lee was either COO/CFO or CFO at Twilio, SAY Media, and Ofoto. In addition to his experience navigating financial markets, Lee oversaw the finance function at one of the most successful usage-based billing companies.
SaaStr
JUNE 15, 2022
So it wasn’t that long ago we checked in with Sprout Social, but when we did in June 2021 , the public markets were at their peak for SaaS and Cloud stocks. And Sprout Social seemed like an interesting but small SMB player. But fast forward to today, and Sprout Social is one of the winners in the current market dynamics. It’s sitting at a $2.6B market cap — up more than 3x from the $800m valuation at its IPO in December 2019, Not too shabby!!
The Daily Egg
JUNE 15, 2022
A connected team is at the core of any growing business. With BlueJeans and Zoom provide some of the best conference call. The post Bluejeans Vs. Zoom appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 16, 2022
?. For the past two years, we carried the spirit of Pride amidst a pandemic that swept through the world. We learned to work remotely and tried (and keep trying) to strike a healthy work-life balance and stay connected with our loved ones. We moved events and workshops online due to lockdowns and restrictions – holding learning sessions that covered topics such as the ABCs of LGBT and trans awareness – recorded the experiences and memories of our own LGBTQI+ community, and learned to
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 16, 2022
Suppose a VC gave you, a web3 marketer, $50m to spend to acquire as many users as possible? How would you do it? Conference sponsorships? Cross-DAO messaging in Discord? Sponsored social? It would be a challenge to drive any efficiency. The past isn’t much help, either. Web2 marketing channels don’t apply because they employ third-party cookies, a technology Google will phase out at the end of 2022.
SaaStr
JUNE 17, 2022
There are pros and cons to being cash-flow positive. In an ideal world, you’d experience both hyper-growth, and free cash flow from almost Day 1. If you’re Freemium and hit it big, fast, in fact it can work that way. See, e.g., Calendly, Zapier, etc. The reality is though, in SaaS, especially if you are primarily sales-driven, that’s often gonna be tough.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 15, 2022
The reliance on business messaging apps really took off when Slack joined the market in 2013 and introduced a highly efficient means. The post Microsoft Teams Vs. Slack appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 13, 2022
Built for you is back – this time we’re revealing the powerful product updates we released in May! Last month we turned our attention to data – unleashing new features that help you improve how you collect, access, and use first-party data to influence your product and scale your business. Not only that, we also added some exciting new features that will help you enrich push notifications, manage your team permissions, perfect your Product Tours, and more.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 13, 2022
The web3 market’s collapse in the last few weeks will reverberate across the ecosystem, especially for marketing teams. Blind airdrops, multi-million dollar ecosystem funds, sports team sponsorships - predominant marketing techniques redolent of the bull market - won’t last. A tighter fundraising market and competition will catalyze web3 marketers to adopt a new discipline.
SaaStr
JUNE 12, 2022
There was one thing prospective sales reps would say in an interview that always chilled my spine. It would especially come from sales reps from larger companies in high-velocity in-bound environment (e.g., WebEx-type environments). They’d say this: “Those type of leads just Wasted My Time.” Sigh. Yes, I guess it’s technically true.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 17, 2022
IONOS, previously known as 1&1, is a large, international web hosting provider. The company offers various hosting products, including shared hosting, WordPress. The post 1&1 IONOS Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 15, 2022
Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. But focusing on the core product can often come at the expense of deeply considering what the onboarding process – the real-world process customers have to go through to start getting value from the product – will be like.
Sage Intacct
JUNE 14, 2022
If you’re a SaaS finance leader, your churn rate (the number of subscription cancellations you receive over a given period) is one of your most valuable performance SaaS metrics to track and improve.
SaaStr
JUNE 13, 2022
Now that board meetings are on Zoom, There’s something to be said for inviting every 5%+ shareholder to join, at least as informal observer, at least for a while. Yet, trend has been opposite, to include fewer & fewer. It’s just a very efficient way to communicate and get buy-in. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? (@jasonlk) June 13, 2022.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 13, 2022
Hiring new talent for your company shouldn’t feel like a chore, and ZipRecruiter makes the process easier in many ways. From integrating. The post ZipRecruiter Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Sparktoro
JUNE 14, 2022
The SparkToro team got an exciting surprise on Sunday evening: a mention of our research on Last Week Tonight by John Oliver. The full episode, Big Tech Monopolies, is available on YouTube. It covers an issue I’ve railed against before, but with a heightened sense of urgency: there is actually a bipartisan bill in Congress that might fix this.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 14, 2022
A sales-qualified lead (SQL) is a prospective customer who has indicated through a series of actions that they have a high probability of converting. Having expressed interest in your product or service and been vetted to ensure they meet the right criteria, a sales-qualified lead is now ready to move into your sales process. . In most cases, prospective customers enter the sales funnel once they’ve performed an action such as visiting your website or following you on social media.
SaaStr
JUNE 13, 2022
Ok, I know the title sounds a bit controversial, but bear with me, it’s not. Metrics are critical in SaaS, and you need to track them fastidiously. But it’s also important to focus on the right metrics, at the right stage, and not obsess about the less important ones at the wrong times. And I’m going to suggest two that will worry you a lot as you scale — Churn and Sales Cycle — you should track, but not obsess over, until you are well, well past initial traction,
The Daily Egg
JUNE 14, 2022
Google Meet is a decent webinar software tool. It’s easy to set up if you already have a Google account, includes document. The post Google Meet Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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IT World
JUNE 17, 2022
Major technology platforms have joined 34 signatories in committing to the EU Commission’s attempts to fight online disinformation by removing financial incentives and empowering researchers and fact checkers.
Sage Intacct
JUNE 16, 2022
When it comes to being an effective and efficient SaaS CFO, a fintech automation tool can be one of your best friends. Your company probably uses a communication tool like Slack or Microsoft Teams, right? It enables people to stay organized and accomplish more in smaller increments of time.
SaaStr
JUNE 11, 2022
We’re continuing to gear up for the 2022 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area, Sept 13-15! Each week we’ll be announcing more incredible sessions. This week, new sessions include: Eran Aloni , Chief Customer Officer, Gong.io – “Turning a Feature Into a Platform: Top 10 Learnings to Scaling Gong” Fatima Yusuf , Director of Commercial, Ecosystem, Shopify – “Building a Unicorn on Shopify’s Platform” Rajalakshmi Srinivasan , Director of Product Management, Zoho
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