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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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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. MRR numbers were changing all the time. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.

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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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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. The Value Metric: Optimize Your Pricing Strategy for High Growth. There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for Your Startup.

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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. My main metric for success is engagement. We have received over 2.6k GitHub stars and seen thousands of fixes.

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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. MRR numbers were changing all the time. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I wouldn’t say I have an exact metric, but-. Excited to be back emceeing.

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