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

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We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. 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. Click To Tweet. How was that possible?

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

For example, we ask people an array of questions on ‘restaurant marketing’ and then use the answers and data to write data-driven articles. The Open Source project around our code started in 2014 and has been growing ever since. We also encourage our users to complete surveys that we can use for SEO purposes. .

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

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We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. 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. Tweet this quote. How was that possible?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. million in 2014.). million in 2014.). We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. We were end of 2014.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. Here’s Rachel. It’s a lot about building those flows.