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

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An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

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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. What’s the most essential thing for an early-stage startup? We have received over 2.6k GitHub stars and seen thousands of fixes.

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

SaaStr

One of the most popular sessions at SaaStr Annual, Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker is up at the top of our must-watch list. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. In 2014, I sold a majority to Silver Lake Sumeru and Iconiq. The reality is most startups fail.

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

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An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.

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SaaStr Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”

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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. In 2014, I sold a majority to Silver Lake Sumeru and ICONIQ. We see that guy all the time down in LA. Don’t be that guy.

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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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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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