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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. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker.

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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. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker.

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

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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.

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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)

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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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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

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B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. At the enterprise level, discounting SaaS contracts is expected, not optional. Early Survey Results Show the Most Common Pricing Responses to COVID-19.

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