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My First 16: Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury’s Dimitri Dadiomov

Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model? No business model is foolproof, of course.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. The salesperson probably rolls up to you.

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Sales Automation: 210+ Tools to Turbocharge Your Sales Process

Sales Hacker

So our team tried to fill the gap to help you build or enhance your own sales stack. Left to its own, a sales force will eventually become too bloated, unwieldy, and counterproductive if everyone on the team reverts to performing tedious tasks manually. Related: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update).

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How Nudge Coach reduced customer churn by over 70%

Baremetrics

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. Due to this style, the customers that we converted were very loyal.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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A Top G Suite Expert Shares His 31 Best Modern Security Tips

BetterCloud

This was originally presented at the Google Washington DC HQ Tech Talk on August 7th, 2018. Kevin is recognized as a Google Developers Expert and G Suite Top Contributor. . Date of breach: 1 Jun 2018. Description: In June 2018, the marketing firm Exactis inadvertently publicly leaked 340 million records of personal data.