Sat.Jun 11, 2022 - Fri.Jun 17, 2022

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Late Stage VC is Kind of Frozen, Down at Least 40%

SaaStr

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!

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How Messaging Differs for Sales vs. Marketing

Predictable Revenue

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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Why Now is the Time to Invest in Customer Success

Totango

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.

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Parallels Desktop Review

The Daily Egg

Parallels Access might not be our top pick for the best stand-alone remote support software. You can certainly get more robust software. The post Parallels Desktop Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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AngelList: Seed Rounds Have Fallen 50% in Volume Since March

SaaStr

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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How to Increase Your Return On Luck as a Business Leader

Predictable Revenue

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.

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Bluejeans Vs. Zoom

The Daily Egg

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.

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7 Simple Steps to Getting to Cash-Flow Positive Faster (in SaaS)

SaaStr

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.

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Office Hours with Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO on Managing through Turbulence

Tom Tunguz

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.

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

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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Built for you: Improved Surveys, enriched push notifications, Australian data hosting, and more

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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Microsoft Teams Vs. Slack

The Daily Egg

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.

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Money, Bonuses, “Customers That Waste My Time”, and Greed: You Get What You Pay For

SaaStr

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.

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What's Better than a Cookie? A Wallet - How Crypto Will Revolutionize Marketing

Tom Tunguz

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.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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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Solving for complex onboarding: Paving a path to value for your customers

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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1&1 IONOS Review

The Daily Egg

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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Invite More Investors to Your Board Meetings, Not Less

SaaStr

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.

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The New Key Competitive Advantage for Web3 Startups

Tom Tunguz

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.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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What is a sales-qualified lead (SQL)?

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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ZipRecruiter Review

The Daily Egg

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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Announcing New SaaStr Annual Sessions with Gong, Shopify, Braze, and Zoho Corporation!!

SaaStr

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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Tips to Boost Net Revenue Retention and Stop Churn in Its Tracks

Sage Intacct

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.

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Buyer’s Guide: Finding The Best Payment Provider For Your Software

Choosing the right Embedded Payments partner can feel overwhelming. This comprehensive buyer’s guide simplifies the process by breaking down seven key criteria to consider, from platform technology to security and growth potential. Learn how to assess partners that align with your goals, offer personalized support, and drive long-term success. This guide equips software companies with the insights to make confident, informed decisions that enhance customer experience and fuel business growth.

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What is tiered support?

Intercom, Inc.

Tiered support refers to support models that are organized with multiple levels or tiers of support. These tiers are organized strategically to ensure that the appropriate actions can be taken efficiently and effectively to resolve any customer challenges or concerns. A tiered support customer service model involves creating different levels or “tiers” of support to help you more easily allocate resources, create escalation paths, and give each customer service challenge the right level of atten

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Google Meet Review

The Daily Egg

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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Two SaaS Metrics That Actually Don’t Matter That Much in the Earliest Days: Absolute Churn and Sales Cycles

SaaStr

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,

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Google, Apple, and Amazon Stifle Innovation When They Favor Their Own Products

Sparktoro

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.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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What is customer relationship management?

Intercom, Inc.

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategy and methodology that revolves around using data and feedback to build authentic, meaningful relationships with prospects and customers, keeping them connected and loyal to your company. Customer relationship management involves leveraging the right technologies to properly meet your customers’ and prospects’ needs.

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TeamViewer Alternatives

The Daily Egg

Since the pandemic began, the importance of remote support software such as TeamViewer and its alternatives has skyrocketed due to the emergence. The post TeamViewer Alternatives appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High-Throughput Critical API With RevenueCat Co-Founder & CTO Miguel Carranza (Pod 564 + Video)

SaaStr

What makes a great API? And how do you go about building a successful one? Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Carranza begins by sharing his high-level thoughts on making a top-tier API: “In my opinion, there are two main things that make a great API.

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