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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

She moved to the US after finishing her engineering degree and worked her way up the ladder, building mobile products across companies such as Reuters and Bloomberg. In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years. Alina was a builder, not a politician.

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These 3 uncommon cybersecurity questions tell you if a SaaS application is secure

Audacix

Worryingly, Trustwave found as far back as 2016 that "fewer than one in four organisations consider themselves to be "very proactive" in the context of security testing." While no business wants to be hacked, you might be surprised to learn that very few SaaS businesses take all the necessary steps to protect their users.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

Scale 356
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What are the best eCommerce subscription platforms for 2019? |

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

According to McKinsey , in 2016, large subscription retailers saw over $2.6 Integration Capabilities: WordPress (yes, via 3rd party), Amazon (yes), Shopify (yes, via 3rd party), Magento (yes, via 3rd party) Main Advantages: Easy to use, Mobile responsive Main Disadvantages: Limited Feature Set Cost: Free 8.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 101
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The Most Important Google Analytics Reports You Can Track

GetUplift

So that means that maybe their mobile experience is not as great, or maybe their mobile experience is less conversion-focused, or it’s something people are uncomfortable converting on a mobile device as opposed to a desktop. I’m just looking at MozCon 2016 because I think that’s when I did it.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to their IPO in 2016, Twilio had raised over $250m in VC funding from some of the best in venture including USV, Bessemer, Salesforce and Techstars just to name a few. Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio. Just to name a few. Harry Stebbings: As for Jeff.