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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

To IPO, companies need to triple their market share in their core market and have a churn rate of less than 3-4% per month. Investors should immediately engage with the CTO to assess their technical capabilities and potential, as great CTOs can demonstrate their exceptional skills quickly.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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9 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Tom Tunguz

Instead I’ve written a blog post about the nine favorite books I’ve read over the last five years have helped me understand startups and the processes that make them successful. Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. costs money and 2.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!