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Every Top Founder Ever: “I Should Have Acted on Bad Trends Earlier”

SaaStr

There’s just so much code 15 folks can push out, so many markets a 2-person marketing team can enter, etc. Still, one of the top mistakes every top founder says is this: “I Should Have Acted on Bad Trends Earlier.” We all have to expand from our initial ICP and initial top markets. The learnings?

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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

Here are the trends across the group of 13 publicly traded software & infrastructure companies (which are the fastest growers or most-highly valued) over the last 5 quarters. I wonder what trends we’ll see in 2033. I realized It has been a decade since I’ve updated revenue-per-employee metrics.

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Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: Wiz and Rippling’s CROs; Google Cloud’s VP of Marketing; And Great Dashboards

SaaStr

10 AI Trends in SaaS Right Now with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin on LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday #2. The Secrets Inside Google Clouds Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing #3. In-Person Sales Generate 3x Higher Conversions Per The CROs of Toast, Splunk, Brex and Slice Top Pods: #1.

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7 Top Trends in Customer Success to Learn From, and Maybe Emulate

SaaStr

While Marketing hasn’t historically been involved in post-sales in most companies, that is changing over time as NRR gains in importance. I still can’t believe, even today, 90% of SaaS companies post $5m ARR don’t have a Customer Marketing function. You Aren’t Doing Enough Customer Marketing.

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. Studies show the return on investment (ROI) of conversational marketing helps your marketing team drive revenue.

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Buyer Trends: Top Insights from $3B in SaaS Transactions with Vendr

SaaStr

As buyers grapple with expanding technology, higher prices, and a need for efficiency, SaaS companies need to deliver what their audience is looking for to win in the market. Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Asana at $750,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Today Asana is: At $750,000,000 ARR $4.75B market cap (so trading at 6x ARR or so) Growing 10% 4% non-GAAP operating loss; not profitable or cash flow positive; 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Is it too complicated, or is it what the market now expects? It’s given Asana a boost, albeit it’s still early for AI at Asana.

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5 Tips to Advance Your Career as a Technical Recruiter

Market trends that’ll increase your response rate. This step-by-step guide is designed to provide technical recruiters with tips and tricks to achieve tangible results that accelerate their recruiting efforts—and career. What you’ll learn: Tips to strengthen your relationship management.

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Demystifying Consumption-Based Pricing: Modeling & the Path to Business Success

With insights on maximizing customer relationships and scaling for the future, this report is packed with actionable strategies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market. Don’t miss out on the key trends shaping tomorrow’s biggest growth opportunities.

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Crafting Tomorrow: A to Z of Delighting Customers with Your Product

Overcome Product Challenges: Dive deep into customer needs, market trends, technology, quality, and compliance. Master the Product Life Cycle: Identify problems, build solutions, launch, scale, and optimize with confidence. Build products that solve real problems, deliver value, and achieve quality excellence.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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How AI Can Radically Change Your Business

More often than not, being flexible enough to get the most out of the latest tech trends defines the success or failure of a company. That's why it is so important to be on top of the cutting edge solutions available in the market. Today, they come in the form of AI-based tools.

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Preparing for SaaS Funding: Evaluating your Funding Options

Speaker: Jon Steinberg, Co-founder of Mountside Ventures, and Clayton Whitfield, Co-Founder and SVP of Revenue Programs at SaaSOptics

While it may seem that more and more SaaS companies are taking the bootstrap approach to financing, it’s encouraging to know that there are many other viable funding options on the market. During this session, Jon and Clayton will answer the following trending questions: When is the right time to raise institutional funds?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.