As one of the first companies that developed an app which was accessible across multiple devices, Evernote is one of the most iconic SaaS companies in the world, especially for productivity-obsessed folks. Jason Lemkin interviews Evernote CEO Chris O’Neill about the...
By: Lynne Sampson, Product Marketing, Oracle As the CFO at a high-growth company, you have to wear many hats. You (of course) need to have the financial know-how and accounting skills, but you also must juggle several other roles, including that of mediator,...
By Benton Nilson, LeadGenius How fast are your qualified leads turning into closed deals? It’s a deceptively simple question. When measuring the overall growth trajectory of your business, reviewing individual marketing and sales metrics, such as inbound lead count or...
There is an explosion of Big Data and analytics happening right now outside of your cloud perimeter. The advanced analytics market alone will be worth close to $30 billion by 2019 per Markets and Markets, and we’re already seeing close to 200,000 open positions for...
By: Christiane Soto, SMB Marketing, Oracle Oracle recently partnered with Inc. Magazine to find out what keeps today’s small and medium business (SMB) leaders up at night. The results, in some ways, were not surprising. Selling more, finding the right people, and...
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by Mallun Yen, Executive Vice President, RPX Corporation My last post was a quick overview of the “invisible” business risk of patent infringement litigation. Those of you who read that post know that I use those quotation marks ironically. The problem isn’t widely...
It’s been a rough stretch in the cloud. S3 / AWS was down for the better part of an entire day, taking a huge chunk of the Internet with it. This shouldn’t happen, folks. Cloudflare, which runs a significant part of the internet’s traffic, leaked passwords and...
By Kari Miller, Reviews Marketing Manager It’s no secret that in today’s world, tech-savvy B2B marketers and entrepreneurs often avoid traditional sales efforts when making a buying decision. After all, when was the last time you listened to an unsolicited phone...
By Mallun Yen, Executive Vice President, RPX Corporation I’ve wrestled with patent trolls since the early 2000s when I ran global intellectual property at Cisco. At the time, many of my peers and I recognized that the problem of patent assertion was real and only...
By Todd Gardner, Founder and Managing Director, SaaS Capital I had an entrepreneur ask me a few weeks ago – “What are SaaS companies ‘going for’ these days?” Here’s the answer I gave him. How to value a SaaS company? I said, well, it depends on a number of...
By Justin Dunham, Director of Growth at Urban Airship Have you read all of the 23,000 articles out there about reducing churn? There are some really great ideas about how to improve your onboarding, how to communicate better, how to segment better. Even how to save...
2016 is finally coming to an end, and what a year it was. We’re taking a look back at the top six SaaStr posts from 2016. What were the biggest lessons learned? Best SaaS tips and advice? Find out below. 6. I Was Wrong. NPS is A Great Core Metric. “Track NPS as a...
Earlier this year, we started to step up our game on LinkedIn. I’d worked on some content on LinkedIn as it began to scale up its focus on publishing, but at first, it didn’t really work. The views were tiny and the audience seemed to mostly be my...
Welcome to Episode 79! Seth Besmertnik is the Co-Founder & CEO of Conductor, the company that boasts the biggest customer list in their category including more than 500 Fortune and Internet Retailer 500 brands like Under Armour, Citi, and FedEx with their web...
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