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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. All companies, big and small, can use Stripe’s APIs and software to receive and process payments.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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On the Value and Power of Building Authentic Connections

OpenView Labs

The idea for JumpCloud presented itself in 2007 while I was working on another business. Google Apps had captured significant market share, AWS was growing exponentially and Windows platforms were no longer the only game in town. Sales and marketing wasn’t going to be our in with this particular audience.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. In 2007, I decided to build my first company, MindSea, and in 2018 I went on to start SalesRight. It is always really cool to talk to sales leaders, and Brian is a genuine down to earth guy. But I do enjoy running an awful lot. I’m going to date myself.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. If you think of this in the context of software, it’s particularly powerful because for years, we’ve been seeing the visionaries out there promoting this transition. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. But back in 2006 they were fighting conventional wisdom and the conventional wisdom at that time was that you could not make money selling software to marketers. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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