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

Outseta

It made the rounds in tech circles online. 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. After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M

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

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. And at the time we thought we were absolute rock stars. We were like 18 people at the time.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. In a nutshell, look at how much revenue you want to earn from each customer and the methods you want to use to attract your customer to build a better pricing strategy. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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