Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Today’s episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world. Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway-style chat, as a16z General Partner Chris Dixon talks … The post Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Totango
OCTOBER 15, 2020
As business becomes increasingly digitized and competitive, customer engagement that makes clients feel valued and appreciated becomes more critical. Covid-19 adds another complicating factor—a heightened risk of customer churn across a number of industries. It is clear that companies need to take every opportunity they can to maintain customer loyalty, and today’s technology makes it easier to do so. .
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Stewart Butterfield threw out an interesting statistic in a recent interview with Fast Company … over 20% of Slack employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit and the shelter order in SF went into place. 20%+ of Slack's employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit. How many by the time we "go back to the office"? 50%? 80%? @stewart.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Each quarter, a group of analysts, including me, publish analysis on the trends in the venture capital market. There’s a risk to those assessments: the data is incomplete since not all rounds founders close within a quarter are reported in that quarter. I was curious about how much variance exists in the data. This retrospective analysis compares Crunchbase data from April 1, 2020 to data from October 10, 2020 across three dimensions: round counts, investment total, and median round size.
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.
The Daily Egg
OCTOBER 16, 2020
As a field service provider, daily operations are hectic to say the least. But an excellent field service team functions like a well-oiled machine in which everyone knows what to do, where to go, and when to do it. Their secret? Field service management software. It exists to help streamline, automate, and optimize your business […]. The post Best Field Service Management Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 16, 2020
A few years back, we did an extra “Day 0” AMA session at SaaStr Annual with Christoph Janz of Point 9 Capital and several hundred founders came. One asked what were top moats are in SaaS. At the time, I didn’t have a great answer. A lot of SaaS apps don’t really have moats, I thought. But that’s wrong. Let’s take a look at moats in SaaS: Brand.
Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Ari Levine has learned to approach everything from the position of the consumer. Even in B2B enterprises, that buyer is a person and we shouldn't forget that. Let's learn how to be more human in our outreach approach and create quality connections with our target audience. The post Social Selling and Reversing The Hatred of Salespeople appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 15, 2020
While the holidays may look very different this year, it’s still a great time to boost your sales and increase your brand awareness by following a plan that supports a global campaign for your company. Our guide will provide all the information you need to be successful during the holidays, including: A high-level overview of the 2020 holiday season.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This week’s guest is no stranger to this podcast in fact, today’s episode will be his third time appearing as a profiled guest with us. Bob is the President & CEO of The Re-Wired Group and serves as a Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute. As a visual thinker, teacher, and creator, Moesta has worked on and helped launch more than 3,500 new products, services, and businesses across nearly every industry.
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
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2020
Q: What are some of the most costly mistakes done by novice investors? My biggest mistakes in SaaS investing actually in the end haven’t been truly costly because, in the end, power laws mean your winners overwhelm your losers if you do it right. A few winners more than make up for the mistakes. The real mistakes are just not getting in more winners.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Marketing campaigns get more complex by the day. Which… is great news for the consumer experience but a nightmare for you as a marketing manager handling thousands of moving parts (and countless employees) on a daily basis. To put it lightly, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 13, 2020
We’ve all heard the saying, “If you love them, let them go.” This may be true in romance, but it’s definitely not true in business. If you love your customers—which I’m sure you do—you want to hold onto them … tight. Yep, we’re talking about customer retention—a business’s ability to keep customers over a period of time. As much as we love new customers, we love repeat customers even more.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The back-to-school season has been a challenging process for teachers, parents, and students across the country. While some have embraced the freedom of learning at their own pace (in their own space), many have struggled. The pandemic has cast the … The post Edtech’s Answer to Remote Learning Burnout appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2020
If someone is looking for another job in Year 1, Even if they don’t take it … You’ve already basically lost them. Do more 1-on-1s Get more 360 feedback Talk more. I know you don’t have time. Make it. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 11, 2020. There’s an endless amount written on the internet about hiring “Rockstars” Finding them, not settling, and all that.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 15, 2020
You may have heard keywords are an essential part of any SEO strategy: they are. Without the right keywords on your site, people won’t find you while searching the web. But there’s a lot more to keyword strategy than figuring out what people are searching for. It means choosing the right keywords for your business, determining which ones you’ll be able to rank for, and a whole lot more.
FastSpring
OCTOBER 13, 2020
FastSpring’s Employee Spotlight is a Q&A series that features the hardworking, intelligent, and fun people that make FastSpring great. Get to know the fantastic team behind the ecommerce platform! In this post, we’re featuring our Senior Manager of Customer Experience, Jay Offringa Hall! What is your current role at FastSpring? I am currently the Senior Manager of Customer Experience.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 15, 2020
As an industry, we’ve gotten exceptionally good at building large, complex software systems. We’re now starting to see the rise of massive, complex systems built around data – where the primary business value of the system comes from the analysis … The post Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Q: Why are sales jobs the worst? Here’s why sales is tough: Can’t hide — not for long. At some point, you have to put real points on the board. Everyone will know. But in many other roles, you can sort of skate by if you aren’t too senior. Get a lot of No’s. A lot of them. Most of us can’t take it. Limited career path if don’t move into management. You’ll get a lot better in 2, 3, 5, 8 years.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 12, 2020
When it comes to digital marketing, knowledge is power. Marketers with industry experience know how to develop a paid social media strategy, which keywords to choose, and how to write magnetic content that converts. To everyone else, these people must seem superhuman! But…I know their secret. The truth is these marketers aren’t lucky or gifted.
Outseta
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about By Geoff Roberts · 17 min read The internet is littered with horror stories detailing the many challenges of entrepreneurship. We’ve all read the tales of founders wrestling for years to find product market fit , of co-founders squabbling over equity, of the CEO riddled by anxiety as he drains his infant daughter’s college fund to keep his start-up afloat for another month.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 10, 2020
“It’s CRISPR!” This week, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna (also an a16z co-founder, of Scribe Therapeutics ), for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing — a technology that’s … The post 16 Minutes on the News #43: A Nobel for CRISPR!
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Your payments integration is more powerful than you think. In today’s complex business landscape, treating payments as just a software feature is a missed opportunity for significant growth and customer acquisition. With the right partner, payments can become a strategy that leads to competitive advantages. Designed for software leaders, this playbook outlines how to harness the full power of a payments strategy to drive substantial revenue and enhance the overall customer experience.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 12, 2020
SImple tips to Do Better in Q4 With What You Already Have: – Drive Down Churn – Drive Up NPS – Be More Grateful – Zoom with 10 Customers a Week – Promote Your Star(s) – Less Spam, more ABM – Weekly Webinar – Improve Lead Routing – Improve Lead Scoring – Talk to Every Prospect. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 10, 2020.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Hashtags for YouTube have evolved over the past several years. It’s now easier for content creators to classify their videos and make them more discoverable, and it’s simpler for viewers to find the content they want. We’re going to explore what hashtags for YouTube are, why you should use them, and how to find the best ones to help your videos appeal to the right audience.
Unbounce
OCTOBER 13, 2020
The only thing better than the energy of a live event? The excitement you feel before you go. As an event marketer, your job is to inspire that feeling in potential attendees—and then turn it into action (e.g., ticket sales and registrations). Whether you’re promoting a conference, show, activity, or even a webinar, the rules are the same: if you can create a certain level of antici— wait for it —pation for an upcoming event, you’re golden.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 14, 2020
We’ve already talked a lot about podcasting , both evolution of the industry as well as the form, but where are we going with the future of audio , more broadly? Can we borrow from the present and future of … The post a16z Podcast: The Present Future of Audio — Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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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?
SaaStr
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Whether you just scored your Series A or are about to go public, there’s no reason to waste precious capital on tasks that could be automated. Of course, you should be thoughtful about what you choose to automate. No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code.
Neil Patel
OCTOBER 16, 2020
QR (Quick Response) codes remain a creative way to drive traffic and connect with your audience. But are they still useful in today’s ultra-digital era? Or have they gone the way of flip phones and pagers? As it turns out, QR codes are still a valuable tool for marketers. In fact, QR usage grew 28% from 2018 to 2019. But, QR codes are not right for every company.
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Sales is the somewhat dark art of convincing people to buy stuff. I hope that rubbed you the wrong way. Maybe you almost jumped out of your seat to write a strongly worded comment about why that’s wrong. We don’t believe that — and you shouldn’t either. But the problem is that many people, including a lot of salespeople, do see sales that way. This idea is long overdue for an upgrade.
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