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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

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In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually. You read that right—two!

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

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Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

New waves of technology come and go in the blink of an eye, each with its own wave of new founders trying to flip their start-up in a newly hot market segment. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.