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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2018 The Fourth SaaStr Annual: Learn and Scale Together. Back together again!

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

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Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. They wanted real-time results.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

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Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

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The company grew their total spend from $390k/mo to $750k/mo during 2018. You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

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Most recently, he started and founded Upserve and grew it to become one of the largest cloud-based point-of-sale platforms for full-service restaurants in the US with over 10,000 restaurant customers and a payments platform processing over $12 billion in annual volume. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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

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We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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

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This episode is an excerpt from Therese’s session at SaaStr Annual 2018. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Terrifying, because back in those days, big companies didn’t even know what SaaS was, much less they weren’t going to put their financial information out in the cloud. Turned out it became who I am.

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