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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. But all this was pretty novel back in 2014. We helped Founders meet VCs face-to-face.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. While he has worked mostly in iOS and apps, he’s also dabbled in marketing, too — Andy’s had a hand in building almost every part of the Buffer website! ” 6. ” 12.

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

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However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Click To Tweet. Pick each piece individually.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

The Open Source project around our code started in 2014 and has been growing ever since. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. We have received over 2.6k GitHub stars and seen thousands of fixes. But mostly our members help each other, and it works like a charm.

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

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However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Tweet this quote.

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

Outseta

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. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M in debt to buy out their investors.