Sat.Jul 08, 2023 - Fri.Jul 14, 2023

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There is No Such Thing as Series A Metrics

Tom Tunguz

In There’s No Such Thing as Series A Metrics , Charles Hudson explains that there is no magic milestone to raise a Series A. In this environment, I agree. The $1m ARR figure used to hold in 2018 & early 2019. But the data shows how much the market differs from a few years ago. Series A round size standard deviation has grown by between 4-5x in 4 years.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Fractional CTO – TechEmpower

TechEmpower SaaS

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

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How to Deliver a Better Product in Terms of Usability and User Experience?

User Pilot

If you’re a UX designer or product manager wondering how to deliver a better product in terms of usability and user experience, this is the article for you. Section by section, we dive into the impact of usability on user experience, analyze the process of developing products with great usability, and explore some best practices in UX design. Let’s get right to it!

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5 Reasons to Actually Have Board Meetings (Updated)

SaaStr

I held off for many years on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Because every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have a Great Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Pre-Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Board Meeting Week. Etc. etc. etc. etc. VCs, once they have been doing it a while, basically become professional Board Members, and they write a lot about that.

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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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NEON Launches $25 Million Fund for B2B SaaS Startups

Entrepreneur - SaaS

According to the company, the fund aims to enable the startups to reach more than $10 million in annual revenue within five years

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How Integrating SEO and Social Media Has Helped Me Grow My Site to 400K Impressions Per Month

Buffer Resources

When I started my business, I was far from a content strategy or digital marketing expert. I launched BAUCE Magazine with an English degree and a dream: To create a lifestyle site that would help women from disadvantaged backgrounds attain wealth, build their empires, and look good while doing it. So, I just wrote the kind of content I’d like to read, everything from career development tips to what Beyoncé wore last weekend.

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How to Measure Growth of a Company [+ Metrics]

User Pilot

Are you trying to find out how to measure growth of a company? Growth is the lifeblood of any company, and it is paramount for any SaaS company. Measuring a company’s growth helps you understand how much you progressed and where you stand. It informs you whether your product growth is fine or if you should make tweaks to improve results. In this article, we’ll go through how to measure growth of a company by delving deep into the basics, relevant metrics, and each necessary company g

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How Do You Create a Great Marketing Strategy? | 5-Minute Whiteboard

Sparktoro

This week, I’m going back to basics. Not because you need a refresher course, but because so many of us are frustrated in the weeds of marketing precisely because we can’t see the strategy forest for the tactical trees. I’ve written before about how too few marketers grasp the difference between strategy and tactics.

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Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke

Predictable Revenue

Joel Klettke, from CaseStudyBuddy, joined to explore how you can build case studies effectively to ensure your sales team actually uses them. The post Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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Dear SaaStr: When Bootstrapping a SaaS Product, What Should You Be Aware Of?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Bootstrapping a SaaS Product, What Should You Be Aware Of? Just a few observations from bootstrapped SaaS companies I’ve had some involvement with: It probably will take 3–4 years longer to get to $10m ARR or so. I don’t fully have the data to support it, but usually, bootstrapped startups take longer. Atlassian and Qualtrics took longer to get to $10m ARR.

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The Fracking of Information

Tom Tunguz

Large language models enable fracking of documents. Historically, extracting value from unstructured text files has been difficult. But LLMs do this beautifully, pumping value from one of the hardest places to mine. We have a collection of thousands of notes researching startups. We are tinkering with deploying large language models on top of them. Here are some quick observations about our initial experiments : The Future is Constellations of Models.

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How Starting a Podcast Helped Me Pivot and Grow My Business to $85K per Year

Buffer Resources

When I first started my podcast back in 2019, I didn’t plan on it becoming a marketing channel. I had recently quit my job to start my own operations consulting business and was listening to entrepreneurial podcasts trying to learn more. Most of them, though, felt like the curated version of a business owner’s story years later, and I was craving someone to share their experience while they were in the thick of it.

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Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke

Predictable Revenue

Joel Klettke, from CaseStudyBuddy, joined to explore how you can build case studies effectively to ensure your sales team actually uses them. The post Fueling Sales Enablement with Case Studies with Joel Klettke appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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The Most Miserable I Ever Was

SaaStr

So startups are just soooo hard, at least until you hit scale. At least until somewhere between $10m and $30m ARR, depending on the category, competition, and timing. Sooo hard until you can’t be stopped. You’re always almost out of money, or at the edge of slowing growth, or just can’t find that critical VP you need, or build that feature in time.

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Dark Launch 101: How to Release Successful Features?

User Pilot

What’s a dark launch and does it benefit product managers ? These are exactly the questions the article deals with, so let’s get right to it, shall we? TL;DR A dark launch involves releasing the feature to a small percentage of users before everybody else. It’s done to validate feature ideas , test their real-world performance and reduce the risk involved in launching a potentially subpar product to all users at once.

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Buffer vs. Tailwind: A Comprehensive Comparison for Social Media Marketers

Buffer Resources

When it comes to social media management tools, choosing the right one for your accounts can be a challenge. In this blog, we're comparing Buffer and Tailwind, two popular platforms, to help you make an informed decision based on their key differences. To kick off, here are seven key differences between the two products that all potential users should be aware of 👇 Seven key differences 1.

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Fuer mehr Transparenz bei Beratungskosten erhaelt consalio 1,2 Millionen Euro

The SaaS Garage

consalio erhaelt 1,2 Millionen Euro (view the original article at Startbase Magazin ) Das Düsseldorfer Unternehmen consalio erhaelt eine Finanzierung von 1,2 Millionen Euro, um der steigenden Nachfrage nach effektiver Kostenverwaltung bei Beratungsdienstleistungen gerecht zu werden. Duesseldorf, July 11, 2023 consalio erhält 1,2 Millionen Euro, um steigender Nachfrage nach effektiver Kostenverwaltung bei Beratungsdienstleistungen nachzukommen.

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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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Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. But You Have to Put In The Effort.

SaaStr

We’ve closed over $50,000,000 of sponsorships to SaaStr events but it took me a while to totally understand why they perform — and when they perform. And a lot of folks who have been doing this a while will talk about how, for example, they now just do side events at Dreamforce, rather than participate in the event itself. Fair enough — and we’ll talk about why that’s good, too first.

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How to Predict Customer Needs in SaaS

User Pilot

The SaaS market is complex and dynamic: product managers who can successfully predict customer needs are a valuable commodity. In this article, we’re going to explore what customer needs are, how you can analyze customer behavior to extrapolate them, and ultimately how you can use your findings to predict the future. Let’s make a start! TL;DR Customer needs are the wants and desires that motivate a customer to use a particular product or service.

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How to Become a LinkedIn Creator

Buffer Resources

The LinkedIn team , referred to as “unlikely champions of creativity” by the Creative Review , have turned their focus to creators in recent years. Features like Creator Mode and LinkedIn Top Voices have made the platform a destination for many looking to grow their personal and business brands. Creators like Justin Welsh have seen massive success by focusing on LinkedIn, gaining audiences in the hundreds of thousands.

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Payment vs Invoice: The Full Guide

Agile Payments

Payment vs Invoice: The Full Guide

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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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Dear SaaStr: Should I Exercise My Stock Options if They are $7 Underwater?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Should I exercise my stock company stock options if they are $7 underwater? Stock options can be really unfair to employees by their nature. Almost no one has the facts to actually know what to do what them. And fewer still even have the financial background to know what to do with the facts even if they have them. I don’t even know what to do with stock options I have myself from many companies.

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Customer Satisfaction Survey Best Practises, Examples & Questions

User Pilot

Embracing customer satisfaction survey best practices is critical to driving business growth. You’ll consistently generate quality feedback and see how to act on them to improve the user experience. This, in turn, will motivate users to stay with your brand, driving long-term loyalty and retention. What are some of these best practices, and how can you implement them?

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Will anyone be interested in the iPhone 15?

IT World

The iPhone 15 will be here in a couple of months, but at this point there's not a lot of excitement or buzz around its arrival. You might think Apple would be concerned. But it likely doesn't have anything to worry about Recent Canalys data gives the iPhone around 21% of market share as of Q1 2023 — just one percentile behind Samsung. In May, data from Counterpoint gave Apple its highest ever share of the smartphone business, even though sales had declined a little.

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Boosting SaaS Business Productivity from the Comfort of Your Home

Agile Payments

Boosting SaaS Business Productivity from the Comfort of Your Home

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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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Why You’re Unfundable in 2023: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS AMA Part 2 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Many people at this year’s SaaStr Europa wondered about the future of customer success, motivation during hard times, and how to grow in this new era of efficiency. SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin sat down with the audience for an Ask Me Anything session to answer some of the most pressing questions from the audience. If you missed part 1, catch that here.

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Product Usability 101: How to Measure It for a User-Friendly UX?

User Pilot

How do you evaluate product usability to guide the product design process? If you’re after the answer to this question, you’re in the right place, because that’s exactly what the article explores. Ready to dive in? TL;DR Product usability describes how easily customers can use a product to achieve their goals. User experience covers all customer interactions with the brand and focuses on aspects like customer satisfaction, enjoyment, and perception of the product value.

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Microsoft wants you to pay for Windows from the cloud — good luck with that

IT World

Microsoft clawed its way back from oblivion by betting big on the cloud rather than focusing on its then-cash cow, Windows. Not only has the company become a big provider of cloud services to enterprises, but it’s also converted as many of its products as possible to the cloud. Just consider what Microsoft did with Office. Years ago, consumers or enterprises bought a client version of Office for a one-time payment, and then used it as long as they wanted without having to pay again.

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