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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. What is Buffer. How was that possible?

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. What is Buffer. How was that possible?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. in debt to buy out their investors. They were doing $4.6M

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. So, we started the company, it was about January 15th of 2010. And we were tiny.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna.

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