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

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CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure. What is Buffer. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? But I got an introduction from a former colleague to Salesforce, and that was about a decade ago in 2010. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. Let’s go do it.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. We chat with Maggie about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. And I know people will often say, “Oh, try to get VC funding or angel investment funding.”

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

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CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure. What is Buffer. Tweet this quote. Tweet this quote.

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

Outseta

Investment funds like Indie.VC 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. of the $3.5M

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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 are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage. Name, role, and also the stage in which you are investing.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

So, we started the company, it was about January 15th of 2010. We were talking to Sean Place, who was the co founder and CTO, and it turned out that they were just giving gift cards to these drivers, but they had no way to authorize the right transaction at the right time for the right amount. And they were seeing lots of fraud.