SaaStr
JUNE 2, 2024
So we took a look at some of the data from Emergence Capital’s survey of 600+ venture-backed software startups the other day , and they updated it with a bit more data on the Top Decline of Venture-Backed Startups Here: The summary data of the Top Decline leads to a rough conclusion: only the top 10% or so of venture-backed start-ups can likely raise another VC round.
USIO
JUNE 3, 2024
In the dynamic world of Software as a Service (SaaS), staying ahead of the curve means continuously evolving and integrating new functionalities that enhance user experience and streamline business operations. One such critical functionality is integrated payments. As a SaaS CEO, understanding and implementing integrated payments can be a game-changer for your business.
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User Pilot
JUNE 4, 2024
The right interaction design principles can help you create intuitive, user-friendly product experiences that drive long-term retention. Today’s article shows you some of these principles and how to apply them in your UX design. Let’s get started! TL;DR Interaction design is the practice of designing digital products and interactive systems with a focus on user behavior.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 1, 2024
Last week, public software markets suffered significant compression. MongoDB fell 24%; UIPath fell 36% ; Salesforce fell 15% ; Workday was down 11%. Weaker revenue projections tend to cause sell-offs. These large drops aren’t unprecedented. In 2016, valuations fell 57%. Is it different this time? Growth rates have changed meaningfully. The 25th, 50th, & 75th percentiles for public growth rates have halved in the last 18-24 months.
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Predictable Revenue
JUNE 6, 2024
This episode is about the transformative power of building connections, exemplified by a bold, cold email that sparked a pivotal career shift. The post Turning Executive Networks into Sales Wins with Drew Sechrist appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 6, 2024
On May 21, the California Senate passed bill 1047. This bill – which sets out to regulate AI at the model level – wasn’t garnering much attention, until it slid through an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 32 to 1 and is now queued for an assembly vote in August that would cement it into law. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha and Venture Editor Derrick Harris breakdown everything the tech community needs to know about SB-1047.
BlueSnap
JUNE 5, 2024
Every interaction customers have with your brand contributes to their customer experience. From searching your website to speaking with sales or support, each touchpoint impacts whether customers want to start and keep doing business with you. The better the experience, the more likely customers will rely on — and recommend — your company. The post Improve Customer Experience with Better B2B Billing & Payments appeared first on BlueSnap.
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 4, 2024
Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the value of obesity medicine practitioners, patient-centric medical homes, and how Brooke believes the metabolic health space will evolve over time. This is the second episode in our series on the science and supply of GLP-1s.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 4, 2024
Robert Brooks IV has spent 12 years leading sales, marketing and customer success at early-stage startups. Typically, he has served as the first sales (and first non-technical) hire reporting directly to a technical founder. Robert started his career at Charles Schwab but joined Stack Overflow ($1.8B exit), then Tempo Automation ($900M IPO) and is now part of the founding team and VP of Revenue at Lambda ($1.5B valuation).
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.
SaaStr
JUNE 7, 2024
So this may seem like a pretty specific post, but it’s a big and real issue I see so, so often these today in SaaS companies at scale, from $20m-$200m+ ARR: They’re reacting to tougher times by going “more enterprise” That can make a lot of sense. But they’re using bigger deals to hide the fact they aren’t growing new customers enough.
Clouded Judgement
JUNE 7, 2024
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Budgets are Bifurcating Last week I showed some data that highlighted the struggles of software companies. Companies are missing guidance at a historically bad rate, and there wasn’t a clear / obvious answer why.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 2, 2024
One line of software can impact a billion rows of data. A short SQL statement can delete a table , reformat date into the US format, or compute the average quota attainment by account executive by region over a company’s history. As data has become a critical component of analytics & production systems, data engineers require more sophisticated tools to manage their data transformations.
Payrix
JUNE 4, 2024
What do merchants want from their software providers? This is a question that keeps many software companies up at night, and Leah Asdell, Head of Partner Marketing and Content Strategy at Worldpay for Platforms. Leah has over a decade of experience in the payments industry and has witnessed firsthand the evolution of Integrated and Embedded Payments.
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
JUNE 3, 2024
So recently I’ve had conversations with several VPs and senior Directors at leading tech companies. I almost never ask anyone how much they make. I don’t care and it’s not me. But in this case, I was talking with folks thinking of making the jump to startups. Usually more scale-ups, at $20m+ ARR or later. But looking to make the jump.
The Moz Blog
JUNE 3, 2024
Today, we’re excited to announce Moz AI — a new set of AI-enabled tools and features you’re going to see across our products. We believe that AI-enabled tools can make you even more results-oriented, impactful, and essential. Learn more about how to use these tools in this blog post.
USIO
JUNE 6, 2024
Woof! Hi there, I’m Paygo, the most fintech-savvy French bulldog in the neighborhood. My human, Alex, is always running around with a million things to do, and I’m here to keep things under control. Today, I’ve got a tail-wagging tale about our adventures with AI biometric payments. It’s a sunny Saturday morning, and Alex and I are headed to our favorite coffee shop, Café Conundrum.
Buffer Resources
JUNE 6, 2024
With over ten years of social media expertise, freelance social media consultant Val Razo often hears from small businesses that they lack social proof. In this article, Val explains the importance of social proof and shares tips on how small businesses can encourage social proof on Instagram. At the beginning of my social media marketing career, when I worked in a digital marketing agency and we helped global supplier of cat and dog food Royal Canin establish and maintain an Instagram presence,
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SaaStr
JUNE 5, 2024
So several times now I’ve seen the #1 sales rep that was just crushing it for quarter after quarter … then a few years down the road … later become one of the lowest performers. From #1 to the bottom of the leaderboard. And the fall often happens pretty quickly, even if at the time, it’s hard to see clearly. Not usually. Usually, the top reps, the #1 and #2 reps, they hit sort of an elite level of understanding of the process, prospects, and industry.
The Moz Blog
JUNE 5, 2024
And… that’s a wrap! Catch up on the second and final day of MozCon 2024 in this day-two recap.
Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 3, 2024
Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. What gets less attention, but is equally (if not more) valuable, is the business-use side of GenAI content creation: marketing.
Buffer Resources
JUNE 4, 2024
With its constant improvement and regular addition of new features, Instagram’s companion app, Threads, is speedily, steadily growing its user base. In April 2024, almost a year on from its rocketship release , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared that the Meta-owned platform now has more than 150 million active users. That’s pretty impressive, but perhaps what’s especially notable is that the social media platform now has more active users in the U.S. daily than T
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SaaStr
JUNE 2, 2024
Dear SaaStr: From An Investor’s Perspective, What is a “Good” Exit Strategy/Plan for a SaaS Company That’s Raising a Seed Round? Ok, people are going to tell you not to have a slide or discussion on an “exit strategy” and they are right. An “exit strategy” slide in a VC pitch deck makes you look like someone not going for it, not really.
The Moz Blog
JUNE 4, 2024
Dive into the future of digital marketing, and discover the key takeaways from our speakers in this day-one recap of MozCon 2024.
User Pilot
JUNE 5, 2024
Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases. This article shows what you should look for when choosing customer retention software and showcases 12 tools worth considering.
Buffer Resources
JUNE 5, 2024
If you’re not an experienced content creator, it might be difficult to determine the best length for Instagram Reels to get the best results. And knowing the ideal number isn’t everything – your metrics might tell you something entirely different. In this article, we explore everything you need to know about the ideal length of Instagram Reels and other Instagram content – according to the team themselves.
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SaaStr
JUNE 6, 2024
“Doubling Down” is a new SaaStr series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. In May, we had a great conversation with Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Peter Berg, Managing Partner at M12! #1. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?
The Moz Blog
JUNE 7, 2024
Learn how to integrate SEO and paid search into your marketing strategy in order to avoid unnecessary spending, have a unified brand message, and achieve sustainable long-term growth.
User Pilot
JUNE 4, 2024
Looking for a customer behavior analysis example to see how you can extract valuable insights? Well, we have 5 of them ready for you, so you’re in the right place. In this article, you will also learn how to conduct customer behavior analysis step-by-step and how Userpilot analytics can help. But let’s start with some background basics. TL;DR Customer behavior analysis involves studying how users interact with a product to understand their needs, motivations, and pain points.
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