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

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For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. 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. How was that possible? Click To Tweet.

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

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For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. 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. How was that possible? 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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And so the timing and opportunity just aligned and here I am. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. I was super excited by it.

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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. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. ” Who doesn’t?

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud.

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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. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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