Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The 4 types of subscription businesses. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? The subscription business model is here to stay.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Eva Pittas (Co-founder and COO at Laika) and Dicken Chaplin (CFO at Laika) discuss the value a well-versed CFO brings to their business as well as a few key lessons they’ve learned along the way. Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Hiring a CFO. Marketing Lead Gen.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

I started writing about my sales hacks on my first blog, maxtalkshacks.com. Earlier this week, we announced that my new company, the GTMfund , has acquired my old company, Sales Hacker , from my…other old company, Outreach. It’s very unusual that when you sell a company, you get a say in what happens after that. At least I’ll have it.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Loss reports indicating that prospects believed the competition “understood our problem better” and acted “more like a partner than a vendor”. SeasEdge taught me the important lesson that the deal you lose is not necessarily the deal your competitor wins. We lost a $200K query-and-reporting (Q&R) deal.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the first impression you’ll make on prospective employers, clients, partners, or investors — so make it count. Having a strong LinkedIn game is no longer an option. What we’re witnessing in today’s tough economy is the inevitable rise of social selling.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The 4 types of subscription businesses. 2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Subscription companies have become incredibly popular in the past two decades. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Hear from Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret, as he walks through his lessons learned building Plaid and how it found itself at the center of the fintech ecosystem. Technology Reporter @ CNBC. Please welcome Zach Perret, Plaid Co-Founder and CEO and Ari Levy, CNBC Senior Technology Reporter. Enter the platform company.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hailley and the team received over 1,500 applications for the role! She wrote about how they handled the tidal wave of amazing applicants in The Content Writer Role at Buffer: What We Looked For In Applications ). As an aside: this is your sign to shoot your shot. My level in Buffer’s Careers Framework.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

398: Rob Gonzalez is the Co-Founder & CMO @ Salsify, empowering brand manufacturers to deliver the product experiences consumers demand at every point in their buying journey. To date, Salsify has raised over $250M in funding from the likes of Venrock, Underscore, Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners & Greenspring to name a few. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Jason : I learned a little lesson yesterday, let me make sure. Jeff : This was our third quarter reporting. A look back at this great deep dive from SaaStr Annual 2017.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

All the analytics, automation tools, machine learning, and other buzzwords will never help you create high-converting experiences for your prospects if you fail to leverage the one component that matters more than anything else in marketing, emotion. This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. So, let’s dive in.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hailley and the team received over 1,500 applications for the role! She wrote about how they handled the tidal wave of amazing applicants in The Content Writer Role at Buffer: What We Looked For In Applications ). As an aside: this is your sign to shoot your shot. My level in Buffer’s Careers Framework.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

Just 4 years ago, we were 10 people in the company. In 2011, Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon by embracing the overlooked call center industry. 7 years later that hackathon project achieved Unicorn status while transforming the call center space. Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2020 tickets. Transcript.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What 14 startup investors & advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit. Insights from Tribe Capital, Founders Factory, Startup Grind, Mighty Capital, GrowthHackers, and more. It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of founders to fail.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What 14 startup investors & advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit. Insights from Tribe Capital, Founders Factory, Startup Grind, Mighty Capital, GrowthHackers, and more. It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of founders to fail.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 4, 2019

It's time to look back at the topics covered in our SaaS Metrics Refresher course and pull out some lessons learned. One of the goals I had when building this ten-step course was to bring together a lot of the knowledge and lessons we’ve churned ( sorry ) through over the years at ChartMogul. Read the full lesson here.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

One quick apology before we jump in: I try not to be too braggy -- but I balance that with transparency and openness. Sam and Shaan asked me several questions about what it's like to be a billionaire, and I answered them openly and truthfully. They did warn me beforehand and gave me the option not to answer). Frameworks To Become A Billionaire.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

One quick apology before we jump in: I try not to be too braggy -- but I balance that with transparency and openness. Sam and Shaan asked me several questions about what it's like to be a billionaire, and I answered them openly and truthfully. They did warn me beforehand and gave me the option not to answer). Frameworks To Become A Billionaire.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

What were Liat’s biggest lessons from Twitter on how to hire successfully? Liat Bycel: Yeah, I would say the biggest lesson that I took from my time at Twitter, especially in the early days, was never to shortcut on hiring. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist. What changes with children?

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