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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

hiring in-house talent). Scaling companies that need insight can get it easily with the help of a specialized platform that guides them through all the necessary and applicable sales tax obligations and processes. . Leverage automation to support scaling. “But with AutoFile, we’ve scaled to doing taxes in 40+ states.”

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. That was in 2010, and we committed the company to go big with this cloud-based SaaS business model that would allow us to reach individuals anywhere in the world. So, let me walk you through that. Where’s the skills gap?

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. million apiece. Calendars are broken.

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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. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up. Evgenia : Hi. My name is Evgenia.

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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. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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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 then we’re like, Oh, wow.

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

Outseta

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. in debt to buy out their investors. of the $3.5M