We uncovered a lot of information in our 2019 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks survey. What's keeping founders up at night, what the fundraising landscape looks like and how a product led growth strategy can help you narrow your focus to see better results.
Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but also one of the easiest to screw up. OpenView's Kyle Poyar explains the top 5 pricing mistakes companies make and how to avoid them in your own business.
Why Product-Led Growth is the most effective GTM strategyMickey Alon
Product-led growth is a strategy that relies on features and usage as primary drivers for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. Mastering growth is an iterative process that involves measurements, user engagements and experimentation.
OpenView surveyed over 500 companies, from pre-revenue to $150M+ ARR publicly traded SaaS companies, about what does and doesn't work when it comes to scaling a business.
What mistakes to sales leaders most often encounter when building outbound sales teams and models? Liz Cain, Partner at OpenView, and former sales leader at NetSuite, explains.
How Small Teams Can Build Powerful Content Engines OpenView
When OpenView was founded in 2006 email newsletters were not the norm, but we were committed to sharing best practices with founders around the globe and believed this was the way to do it. With a team of only 2 marketers, putting out a new piece of content every single day would not be possible without a strong, dedicated and expert pool of regular content contributors. Getting started with your own content network might seem daunting, but it really breaks down into two sides of one coin: building your network of contributors and then managing the content those contributors create.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how to get started with a content strategy by leveraging existing in-house content, outside contributors and syndicated content
- Learn strategies to build your following through workflow and promotion
- Develop plans to implement your own content strategy, regardless of team size
Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but also one of the easiest to screw up. OpenView's Kyle Poyar explains the top 5 pricing mistakes companies make and how to avoid them in your own business.
Why Product-Led Growth is the most effective GTM strategyMickey Alon
Product-led growth is a strategy that relies on features and usage as primary drivers for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. Mastering growth is an iterative process that involves measurements, user engagements and experimentation.
OpenView surveyed over 500 companies, from pre-revenue to $150M+ ARR publicly traded SaaS companies, about what does and doesn't work when it comes to scaling a business.
What mistakes to sales leaders most often encounter when building outbound sales teams and models? Liz Cain, Partner at OpenView, and former sales leader at NetSuite, explains.
How Small Teams Can Build Powerful Content Engines OpenView
When OpenView was founded in 2006 email newsletters were not the norm, but we were committed to sharing best practices with founders around the globe and believed this was the way to do it. With a team of only 2 marketers, putting out a new piece of content every single day would not be possible without a strong, dedicated and expert pool of regular content contributors. Getting started with your own content network might seem daunting, but it really breaks down into two sides of one coin: building your network of contributors and then managing the content those contributors create.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how to get started with a content strategy by leveraging existing in-house content, outside contributors and syndicated content
- Learn strategies to build your following through workflow and promotion
- Develop plans to implement your own content strategy, regardless of team size
Lessons learned from 3k SaaS Companies - Patrick Campbell, CEO, Price Intelli...SaaStock
Patrick Campbell, CEO, Price Intelligently presented "Lessons learned from 3k SaaS Companies" on the Playbook Stage at SaaStock 2016.
Watch the video here: https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/lessons-learned-from-3k-saas-companies
SaaStock is Europe’s premier Conference for B2B SaaS at RDS, Dublin Ireland in September 2017 www.saastock.com
The State of Software Buying: From SMB to Enterprise with G2's CMOsaastr
Today’s software buyers possess consumer expectations. They are conducting more independent research and move quickly through the buying process, making the buying cycle shorter than ever. The growing consumerization of software buying presents new opportunities for software marketers and salespeople alike.
G2 CMO Amanda Malko will discuss findings from the software marketplace’s annual buyer behavior study, which details buyer behavior and trends across SMB, mid-market and enterprise buyers represented on G2.com. Amanda will unveil the data and discuss these new findings:
- How to adapt the marketing playbook when buyers are in the driver's seat
- Why sales and marketing teams must focus on education before selling.
- How software buying is evolving to be a team sport
- How the influx of new products and resources makes trust more difficult to establish, while expectations for software companies remain high.
Beyond the Metrics: What Investors Look for in a Series A SaaS Companysaastr
Nakul Mandan - Partner / Lightspeed Venture Partners at SaaStr Annual 2018
What are the qualitative metrics VCs look for in a Series A? And how can you pre-emptively address those questions in your pitch?
Growth Strategy for B2B Saas - How to Build Your Product Into a Growth-Ready ...YuHsuan Chao
Growth strategies should be tailored for the different stages a B2B SaaS is in. Founders should make sure their product, marketing, sales, and support strategies always go hand-in-hand regardless of the stages their companies are at.
Great articles I drew my ideas from:
1. Joel York's Three SaaS Sales Models
http://chaotic-flow.com/saas-startup-strategy-three-saas-sales-models/
2. Guillaume Lerouge's Go-To-Market Strategy for B2B SaaS Companies
https://www.slideshare.net/GuillaumeLerouge1/go-tomarket-strategy-for-b2b-saas-companies
From the Desk of Nylas' Co-Founder and CTO From 2 to 200: Best Practices and ...saastr
Whether you just raised a bunch of capital, closed a huge customer, or are expanding your global footprint, one thing all hyper-growth companies have in common is the need to scale their product and engineering organizations. But seamlessly transitioning from a small and scrappy team to a well-oiled enterprise-level organization doesn’t happen overnight. It takes strategic planning, ongoing communication, goal setting, and continued investment in team and company culture.
In this session, Nylas Co-Founder & CTO, Christine Spang will discuss the impacts and best practices for successfully scaling engineering teams. She’ll highlight how to think about priorities, metrics, and KPIs that align with the size and growth of your organization and business.
Looking for more information on building out and scaling a sales operations team? Look no further. Go from a team of one to a full scale operation with this deck.
The Current State of SaaS Companies, Subscriptions and Retention in 2021 with...saastr
Leveraging data garnered from twenty three thousand recurring revenue businesses, ProfitWell’s CEO Patrick Campbell shares insights on where the SaaS world sits going into 2021, including benchmarks on how growth and retention faired throughout COVID. He’ll then walk through a tactical playbook on the retention levers the fastest growing SaaS companies are using to accelerate in a market that continues to get denser and more competitive. You’ll leave with specific takeaways to implement or hand off internally - all backed by data on what definitively works.
The SaaS market is moving rapidly, to the point that we're noticing a hard transition from the first wave of SaaS, which focused on function, infrastructure, etc, to the second wave of SaaS, which is squarely focused on the customer. In this opening presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016, Patrick Campbell walks through the data in the market that's showing we're in a world of transition where we'll need to heed data to properly evolve.
Speakers
Myles Kleeger - President & CRO / Braze (formerly Appboy)
Ben Hindman - CEO / Splash & Formerly Director of Events / Thrillist
Maria Pergolino - Chief Marketing Officer / Anaplan
Vivek Sharma - Founder & CEO / Movable Ink
Description
These executives have built powerful programs to drive ARR at every stage of the funnel. From generating to accelerating to renewing key accounts, they all share one secret: they do it in-person. A new era of automation and measurement has transformed events from a cost center to a revenue engine.
Account-based marketing (ABM) is a game-changer, but it’s not uncommon for sales to push back against implementing it as a new strategy.
Salesloft Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Sydney Sloan shows how aligning sales and marketing resources on targeting your top accounts work.
On Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Int...saastr
When is the best time to find your next gear of growth? Now. Whether you are growing rapidly or seeing growth start to slow, this talk will share proven ways to accelerate. Karen Peacock, CEO of Intercom and former SVP of Small Business at Intuit, will discuss how putting customers at the forefront of your business is the key to hitting that next level. She’ll cover how to segment your customer base and analyze the health of each part as input to strategy, design and package your product based on value and build highly contextual and personalized customer experiences that lead to happy customers, retention, expansion and growth. Karen will share stories based on her experience at Intuit building one of the world’s largest SaaS product lines from $500M to $2.5B and in her current role leading Intercom’s high growth on the path to IPO.
From the Desk of Active Campaign: The Not-talked-about Secret to Hypergrowth:...Amanda Beaty
Looking for the secret to hyper-growth? In this session you will hear from 4X unicorn creator, Maria Pergolino on the not-talked-about secret to hypergrowth: Acceleration through Customer Experience.
This presentation describes a process that marketers and marketing analysts can implement to enable their organizations to become more data-driven. It describes the fundamental differences between performance measurement and hypothesis validation, and then describes a framework/process to "A.D.A.P.T. to Act and Learn" (Align, Discover hypotheses, Assess hypotheses, Prioritize hypotheses, Test hypotheses, Act on the results and Learn for the future).
Mastering Hypergrowth: 5 Growth Strategies with Chargebee's CROsaastr
Adam Tesan / CRO / Chargebee
In this session, you will learn:
1. Frameworks to navigate global expansion, pricing experiments; business model pivots.
2. Agility as the cornerstone of Hypergrowth
3. Creating sustainable business growth
Forget your feelings: How to actually quantify your buyer personas - SaaSFest...Price Intelligently
As an industry we've been talking about buyer personas for over a decade, yet few of us are actually using them in the proper manner. Instead, we create cute avatars and pretty names to characterize our personas without getting into the nitty gritty of who these people are on a quantified level. In this presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016, Patrick Campbell walks through a step by step process for actually quantifying your buyer personas to accelerate your learnings and growth.
SaaStrU 301: Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Str...saastr
The internet economy is experiencing explosive growth, and more business models are now possible online than ever before. Join Suzanne Xie, Stripe’s Business lead for their Invoicing products and a former serial entrepreneur, as she shares her lessons for how internet businesses can use new tools to make more money for less effort.
Lessons learned from 3k SaaS Companies - Patrick Campbell, CEO, Price Intelli...SaaStock
Patrick Campbell, CEO, Price Intelligently presented "Lessons learned from 3k SaaS Companies" on the Playbook Stage at SaaStock 2016.
Watch the video here: https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/lessons-learned-from-3k-saas-companies
SaaStock is Europe’s premier Conference for B2B SaaS at RDS, Dublin Ireland in September 2017 www.saastock.com
The State of Software Buying: From SMB to Enterprise with G2's CMOsaastr
Today’s software buyers possess consumer expectations. They are conducting more independent research and move quickly through the buying process, making the buying cycle shorter than ever. The growing consumerization of software buying presents new opportunities for software marketers and salespeople alike.
G2 CMO Amanda Malko will discuss findings from the software marketplace’s annual buyer behavior study, which details buyer behavior and trends across SMB, mid-market and enterprise buyers represented on G2.com. Amanda will unveil the data and discuss these new findings:
- How to adapt the marketing playbook when buyers are in the driver's seat
- Why sales and marketing teams must focus on education before selling.
- How software buying is evolving to be a team sport
- How the influx of new products and resources makes trust more difficult to establish, while expectations for software companies remain high.
Beyond the Metrics: What Investors Look for in a Series A SaaS Companysaastr
Nakul Mandan - Partner / Lightspeed Venture Partners at SaaStr Annual 2018
What are the qualitative metrics VCs look for in a Series A? And how can you pre-emptively address those questions in your pitch?
Growth Strategy for B2B Saas - How to Build Your Product Into a Growth-Ready ...YuHsuan Chao
Growth strategies should be tailored for the different stages a B2B SaaS is in. Founders should make sure their product, marketing, sales, and support strategies always go hand-in-hand regardless of the stages their companies are at.
Great articles I drew my ideas from:
1. Joel York's Three SaaS Sales Models
http://chaotic-flow.com/saas-startup-strategy-three-saas-sales-models/
2. Guillaume Lerouge's Go-To-Market Strategy for B2B SaaS Companies
https://www.slideshare.net/GuillaumeLerouge1/go-tomarket-strategy-for-b2b-saas-companies
From the Desk of Nylas' Co-Founder and CTO From 2 to 200: Best Practices and ...saastr
Whether you just raised a bunch of capital, closed a huge customer, or are expanding your global footprint, one thing all hyper-growth companies have in common is the need to scale their product and engineering organizations. But seamlessly transitioning from a small and scrappy team to a well-oiled enterprise-level organization doesn’t happen overnight. It takes strategic planning, ongoing communication, goal setting, and continued investment in team and company culture.
In this session, Nylas Co-Founder & CTO, Christine Spang will discuss the impacts and best practices for successfully scaling engineering teams. She’ll highlight how to think about priorities, metrics, and KPIs that align with the size and growth of your organization and business.
Looking for more information on building out and scaling a sales operations team? Look no further. Go from a team of one to a full scale operation with this deck.
The Current State of SaaS Companies, Subscriptions and Retention in 2021 with...saastr
Leveraging data garnered from twenty three thousand recurring revenue businesses, ProfitWell’s CEO Patrick Campbell shares insights on where the SaaS world sits going into 2021, including benchmarks on how growth and retention faired throughout COVID. He’ll then walk through a tactical playbook on the retention levers the fastest growing SaaS companies are using to accelerate in a market that continues to get denser and more competitive. You’ll leave with specific takeaways to implement or hand off internally - all backed by data on what definitively works.
The SaaS market is moving rapidly, to the point that we're noticing a hard transition from the first wave of SaaS, which focused on function, infrastructure, etc, to the second wave of SaaS, which is squarely focused on the customer. In this opening presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016, Patrick Campbell walks through the data in the market that's showing we're in a world of transition where we'll need to heed data to properly evolve.
Speakers
Myles Kleeger - President & CRO / Braze (formerly Appboy)
Ben Hindman - CEO / Splash & Formerly Director of Events / Thrillist
Maria Pergolino - Chief Marketing Officer / Anaplan
Vivek Sharma - Founder & CEO / Movable Ink
Description
These executives have built powerful programs to drive ARR at every stage of the funnel. From generating to accelerating to renewing key accounts, they all share one secret: they do it in-person. A new era of automation and measurement has transformed events from a cost center to a revenue engine.
Account-based marketing (ABM) is a game-changer, but it’s not uncommon for sales to push back against implementing it as a new strategy.
Salesloft Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Sydney Sloan shows how aligning sales and marketing resources on targeting your top accounts work.
On Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Int...saastr
When is the best time to find your next gear of growth? Now. Whether you are growing rapidly or seeing growth start to slow, this talk will share proven ways to accelerate. Karen Peacock, CEO of Intercom and former SVP of Small Business at Intuit, will discuss how putting customers at the forefront of your business is the key to hitting that next level. She’ll cover how to segment your customer base and analyze the health of each part as input to strategy, design and package your product based on value and build highly contextual and personalized customer experiences that lead to happy customers, retention, expansion and growth. Karen will share stories based on her experience at Intuit building one of the world’s largest SaaS product lines from $500M to $2.5B and in her current role leading Intercom’s high growth on the path to IPO.
From the Desk of Active Campaign: The Not-talked-about Secret to Hypergrowth:...Amanda Beaty
Looking for the secret to hyper-growth? In this session you will hear from 4X unicorn creator, Maria Pergolino on the not-talked-about secret to hypergrowth: Acceleration through Customer Experience.
This presentation describes a process that marketers and marketing analysts can implement to enable their organizations to become more data-driven. It describes the fundamental differences between performance measurement and hypothesis validation, and then describes a framework/process to "A.D.A.P.T. to Act and Learn" (Align, Discover hypotheses, Assess hypotheses, Prioritize hypotheses, Test hypotheses, Act on the results and Learn for the future).
Mastering Hypergrowth: 5 Growth Strategies with Chargebee's CROsaastr
Adam Tesan / CRO / Chargebee
In this session, you will learn:
1. Frameworks to navigate global expansion, pricing experiments; business model pivots.
2. Agility as the cornerstone of Hypergrowth
3. Creating sustainable business growth
Forget your feelings: How to actually quantify your buyer personas - SaaSFest...Price Intelligently
As an industry we've been talking about buyer personas for over a decade, yet few of us are actually using them in the proper manner. Instead, we create cute avatars and pretty names to characterize our personas without getting into the nitty gritty of who these people are on a quantified level. In this presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016, Patrick Campbell walks through a step by step process for actually quantifying your buyer personas to accelerate your learnings and growth.
SaaStrU 301: Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Str...saastr
The internet economy is experiencing explosive growth, and more business models are now possible online than ever before. Join Suzanne Xie, Stripe’s Business lead for their Invoicing products and a former serial entrepreneur, as she shares her lessons for how internet businesses can use new tools to make more money for less effort.
Moderator: Jerrod Hill, VC Business Development, Amazon Web Services
Panelists: Nyla Koncurat, Managing Partner, Karlani Capital
Elizabeth D. Sigety, Esq., Director, Co-Founder, Delaware Crossing Investor Group
There's no perfect pitch deck. However, there are elements every investor will be looking for, and that your deck better have. If you are in the school of, “Why do I need a pitch deck at all?” it's time to change your thinking. A spiffy series of slides won't magically get you investors, customers, or those critical early hires. But it's a way in, especially for novice entrepreneurs. In this talk we'll cover what’s critical in a deck, what’s best left out, and how to combine everything to tell a compelling story about yourself and your startup.
Speaker: Mike Wilner, Startup Business Development, Amazon Web Services
Is raising venture capital right for you? Join this session to learn about the process that serial founders execute with fundraising. Discover how to prospect the right investors, make contact and frame a fundraising narrative, and generate a sense of urgency with investors to close your round as quickly as possible. Make sure you can fundraise like the most experienced founders to avoid dragging it out.
Presentation given at MSP World 2019 in Las Vegas, NV by Angela Leavitt from Mojo Marketing. Reviews 5 marketing trends that will effect MSP marketing, complete with statistics and implementation examples.
Insights into non-payroll workers | SAP FieldglassSAP Fieldglass
How much do you know about your non-payroll workers?
Only 31% of executives are highly informed about the quality of work done by their non-payroll workers. That is just one finding from SAP Fieldglass’ latest global research study with Oxford Economics.
To get work done, organizations increasingly turn to non-payroll workers such as independent contractors, freelancers and temporary staff. Non-payroll workers account for a major share of total workforce spend. Yet many organizations under-manage them, preventing them from reaching their full potential, as well as putting their organizations at risk.
View the SlideShare to discover four key actions organizations can take to unlock more value from their non-payroll workers and mitigate risk. The SlideShare also looks at Pacesetters – organizations that excel in managing non-payroll workers – and shows how their strong management capabilities pay off in superior business results.
About the research
SAP Fieldglass collaborated with Oxford Economics to survey 1,050 senior executives in 24 industries across 21 countries about their use and management of the external workforce. One-third of respondents are C-suite leaders, including Chief Procurement Officers and Chief HR Officers. From a qualitative perspective, Oxford Economics also conducted in-depth interviews with multiple executives to capture their insights and reactions to the survey findings.
Startup Grind NYC presents Mike Wilner from the AWS Early Stage Startups Team on December 16, 2020. Mike walks founders through the practical steps of how to authentically generate a sense of urgency with investors, control your fundraising narrative, and stack the deck in your favor in order to create fundraising momentum and close investors quickly. Whether you are getting ready to fundraise, are currently fundraising, or are considering fundraising in the future, this workshop will prepare you to run a more efficient fundraising process.
The workshop walks through the fundraising process comprehensively, including:
- Knowing when to raise money
- Ground rules when approaching a seed round
- Drafting round composition and allocation
- Crafting your fundraising narrative
- Building a funnel
- Initiating fundraising mode and stacking meetings
- Pitching and closing
Startup Grind Local features incredible talks with entrepreneurs from Startup Grind’s worldwide network. Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs.
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Best Frenemies: Aligning Your Sales & Marketing Strategies for Maximum ResultsAngela Leavitt
Presentation given by Angela Leavitt, Founder & CEO of Mojo Marketing, at ITExpo 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. How to achieve sales and marketing alignment within the telecom and IT industries.
Even if you're not in sales, you're selling. Sales is a noble (and necessary) profession.
In this session, you will learn how to:
. Pivot your team into a consultative sales team
. Starting from recruiting well
. Coaching along the way
. Enforcement through incentives
In this webinar, ValueSelling Associate, Natalie Pitchford, will share how to get a prospect or customer’s attention by proactively differentiating the need for and the value of your solution over the competition.
How to Scale with Usage-Based Pricing with Kyle Poyar from OpenViewOpenView
Usage-based pricing (UBP), also known as consumption-based pricing, is a pricing model that enables customers to pay for a product according to how much they use it. The metric used to measure usage corresponds to how the customer is extracting value from the product. UBP is becoming increasingly prevalent within SaaS, replacing more traditional subscription- and seat-based pricing models. Learn more at https://openviewpartners.com/blog/
Investment banks can provide a tremendous amount of value to your business. This might be most clear when it comes to assisting with a sale process or preparing for an IPO, but advice and guidance often begins well before a transaction.
You don’t need to be actively pursuing an exit to begin speaking with banks. Building relationships early on can provide perspective on who would be the best partner down the road, and are often great resources before engaging as well.
Read more at https://openviewpartners.com/blog/
A common problem facing startup founders is how to adequately fund their businesses from inception through profitability.
Many rely on equity raises to climb up the J-curve, but the dilution that results is often a hefty price to pay. Fortunately, that isn’t the only option.
Venture debt is a potentially attractive alternative that founders tend to under-utilize. Whether you’re looking for a source of growth capital with minimal dilution, a way to extend your runway between equity financings, or both, venture debt is an important component of the capital structure for many venture-backed startups.
What’s best is that you don’t need to be an expert in debt financing to make venture debt work for your business. What you do need to understand, however, is how and when to access the venture debt markets.
Read more here: https://openviewpartners.com/blog
11 PLG Principles for the Age of Connected Work from OpenViewOpenView
We’re often asked “How do we become PLG?” While there is no one way to PLG, we have accumulated a number of principles below to guide entrepreneurs. Building upon our inaugural post on what is PLG, we are launching our PLG principles for the Age of Connected Work. Public company PLG leaders like Datadog, Snowflake and HubSpot have adopted at least nine of the principles and are rewarded with outsized valuations–more on that later.
You don’t need to adopt all 11 principles to be PLG, but use as many as are applicable for your market to build a defensible competitive advantage for your business and win in the long-term. Start by embracing the Build principles; otherwise you’ll be optimizing from a shaky foundation. Then layer on Deliver and Monetize principles to amplify your efforts.
Read more at https://openviewpartners.com/blog/age-of-connected-work/
Developer-focused tools can greatly improve organic discovery and conversion by ensuring that their documentation acts as a side-door to the product.
Often, developer documentation is so product and feature focused that it doesn’t answer the question ”What’s in it for me with this product?”
We researched 20+ developer-focused products’ documentation using the internet archive to understand trends and best practices used by top companies in the space.
It’s important to note that this is a follow on to our Developer Buyer Journey, and we recommend reviewing that first.
What Happened After SaaS Companies Introduced Free Offerings Last YearOpenView
2020 was the year of free. And 2021 is the year of reaping the rewards. Let's dig into what happened when SaaS companies started to give away their products.
Product Led Growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy that relies on product usage as the primary driver of acquisition, conversion and expansion. Learn why we're now in the end user era and how your org can adapt.
Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. Developers are a tough crowd, their time is extremely valuable, and they’re allergic to anything that even remotely feels, tastes, or smells like marketing.
How Organizations Can Focus Sales for Maximum ImpactOpenView
The best PLG businesses have a dirty secret: They all have sales teams. In fact, they’re doubling down on these teams.
But that doesn’t mean their unit economics are going to get any less attractive, or that they’ll build their sales team at the same pace that their lead volume increases.
How are the best companies doing this? Focus. We used to want to build a big funnel to give our sales team plenty of leads—but many of the experts Sam Richard spoke with from InVision, Wistia, Hubspot and more told me that they’re “splitting the funnel,” or narrowing it, to keep their teams laser-focused on the leads that make sense for their business.
Sam just finished a project with an OpenView portfolio company that wanted help identifying ways to keep their sales team focused on the best accounts coming through their free tool. During the course of the work, Sam consulted with experts and pretended to be a lead in order to shape some findings that she would now like to share with the community.
We invite you to check out Sam's findings, best practices and suggestions to rethink how you’re applying sales resources at your own organization. We hope this helps provide some guidance, and we’d love to know how your organization does this or what companies you admire who do this well. Reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn.
The Recession Planning Framework for StartupsOpenView
We are “officially” entering a recession. That’s likely not a surprise to hear.
For SaaS companies, a recession is defined by a few things:
Churn increases (big time)
ARR growth decreases (big time)
Cash burn feels like bleeding out (big time)
Runway is king
You’ve probably read this same kind of advice in many doom and gloom posts over the last month or so.
But how do you turn these high-level truths into practical action?
I put together this Recession Planning Framework based on how I have seen the best SaaS CEOs leading through this crisis.
I hope that it makes planning during this uncertain time feel less like summoning a crystal ball and more like navigating with a map .
This framework is meant to help you develop the map so you can then focus on navigation.
Step up. Lean in. Be strong. Make decisions. Move forward.
It’s never been more imperative to understand if you're providing enough value to your customers. Check out our best practices for building a customer health score based on product analytics, customer success, and support data.
Product Led Growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy that relies on product usage as the primary driver of acquisition, conversion and expansion. Learn why we're now in the end user era and how your org can adapt.
Over the past few decades, buyer power shifted from the executive to the end user. OV's Kyle Poyar explains how this shift occurred and how product led growth is how you adapt.
The next evolution of go-to-market is Product Led Growth. Learn about this growth strategy where companies forgo spending large sums of money on traditional marketing and sales activities and instead rely on the product itself to supply a pipeline of satisfied users and ‘hand raisers.'
We all know that the SaaS landscape is ever-changing. That’s precisely why it’s crucial for SaaS businesses to constantly evolve and change their strategies and tactics. But without objective data on what works and what doesn’t, shifting strategies would be mere conjecture.
To help these companies we’re releasing, for the second year in a row, a massive data set that takes a look at what does and doesn’t work when it comes to efficiently growing a SaaS company. This year, we placed special emphasis on the explosion of product led growth – a go-to-market strategy that underpins some of today’s most successful businesses including Atlassian, Dropbox and Expensify. Companies with a product led growth (PLG) strategy exhibit unique financial and operating characteristics like rapid scalability, economic efficiency and outsized investment in technology that enable them to grow at more efficient rates.
Our survey uncovered trends around how fast startups are growing (hint: it’s tough to break in, but the best performers are growing faster than ever), the emergence of SaaS companies all around the world, and early indications of progress on hiring diverse candidates.
Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standards. How can we improve this crucial process?
In this session we will cover:
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Streamlining the Review Process
- Elevating Reviews with Automated Tools
By the end of this presentation, you'll have the knowledge on how to organize and improve your code review proces
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
Worried about document security while sharing them in Salesforce? Fret no more! Here are the top-notch security standards XfilesPro upholds to ensure strong security for your Salesforce documents while sharing with internal or external people.
To learn more, read the blog: https://www.xfilespro.com/how-does-xfilespro-make-document-sharing-secure-and-seamless-in-salesforce/
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
If you want to watch the on-demand webinar, please click here: https://www.xfilespro.com/webinars/salesforce-document-management-2-0-smarter-faster-better/
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
How Recreation Management Software Can Streamline Your Operations.pptxwottaspaceseo
Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Multiple Your Crypto Portfolio with the Innovative Features of Advanced Crypt...Hivelance Technology
Cryptocurrency trading bots are computer programs designed to automate buying, selling, and managing cryptocurrency transactions. These bots utilize advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyze market data, identify trading opportunities, and execute trades on behalf of their users. By automating the decision-making process, crypto trading bots can react to market changes faster than human traders
Hivelance, a leading provider of cryptocurrency trading bot development services, stands out as the premier choice for crypto traders and developers. Hivelance boasts a team of seasoned cryptocurrency experts and software engineers who deeply understand the crypto market and the latest trends in automated trading, Hivelance leverages the latest technologies and tools in the industry, including advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, to create highly efficient and adaptable crypto trading bots
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
Accelerate Enterprise Software Engineering with PlatformlessWSO2
Key takeaways:
Challenges of building platforms and the benefits of platformless.
Key principles of platformless, including API-first, cloud-native middleware, platform engineering, and developer experience.
How Choreo enables the platformless experience.
How key concepts like application architecture, domain-driven design, zero trust, and cell-based architecture are inherently a part of Choreo.
Demo of an end-to-end app built and deployed on Choreo.
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
Les Buildpacks existent depuis plus de 10 ans ! D’abord, ils étaient utilisés pour détecter et construire une application avant de la déployer sur certains PaaS. Ensuite, nous avons pu créer des images Docker (OCI) avec leur dernière génération, les Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF en incubation). Sont-ils une bonne alternative au Dockerfile ? Que sont les buildpacks Paketo ? Quelles communautés les soutiennent et comment ?
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Into the Box Keynote Day 2: Unveiling amazing updates and announcements for modern CFML developers! Get ready for exciting releases and updates on Ortus tools and products. Stay tuned for cutting-edge innovations designed to boost your productivity.
Your Digital Assistant.
Making complex approach simple. Straightforward process saves time. No more waiting to connect with people that matter to you. Safety first is not a cliché - Securely protect information in cloud storage to prevent any third party from accessing data.
Would you rather make your visitors feel burdened by making them wait? Or choose VizMan for a stress-free experience? VizMan is an automated visitor management system that works for any industries not limited to factories, societies, government institutes, and warehouses. A new age contactless way of logging information of visitors, employees, packages, and vehicles. VizMan is a digital logbook so it deters unnecessary use of paper or space since there is no requirement of bundles of registers that is left to collect dust in a corner of a room. Visitor’s essential details, helps in scheduling meetings for visitors and employees, and assists in supervising the attendance of the employees. With VizMan, visitors don’t need to wait for hours in long queues. VizMan handles visitors with the value they deserve because we know time is important to you.
Feasible Features
One Subscription, Four Modules – Admin, Employee, Receptionist, and Gatekeeper ensures confidentiality and prevents data from being manipulated
User Friendly – can be easily used on Android, iOS, and Web Interface
Multiple Accessibility – Log in through any device from any place at any time
One app for all industries – a Visitor Management System that works for any organisation.
Stress-free Sign-up
Visitor is registered and checked-in by the Receptionist
Host gets a notification, where they opt to Approve the meeting
Host notifies the Receptionist of the end of the meeting
Visitor is checked-out by the Receptionist
Host enters notes and remarks of the meeting
Customizable Components
Scheduling Meetings – Host can invite visitors for meetings and also approve, reject and reschedule meetings
Single/Bulk invites – Invitations can be sent individually to a visitor or collectively to many visitors
VIP Visitors – Additional security of data for VIP visitors to avoid misuse of information
Courier Management – Keeps a check on deliveries like commodities being delivered in and out of establishments
Alerts & Notifications – Get notified on SMS, email, and application
Parking Management – Manage availability of parking space
Individual log-in – Every user has their own log-in id
Visitor/Meeting Analytics – Evaluate notes and remarks of the meeting stored in the system
Visitor Management System is a secure and user friendly database manager that records, filters, tracks the visitors to your organization.
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