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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

The solution? While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro startup acquisitions.

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The New Rules of Indie Hacking Through A Recession

Outseta

Generally speaking, building a software product—even a minimum viable product—is going to take more effort and time than selling your skills as services. But software products are more scalable and valuable, so if you have the financial runway and the time to start building now is as good a time as any. Their secret?

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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue. I only started taking an owner’s draw in excess of tax payments once hitting $1 million in annual revenue. I was out of ideas.

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How to Lower Your Company COGS

Neil Patel

A better solution may be to reduce your Cost of Goods Sold. They include: storage shipping labor custom duties software packaging costs. Here’s an example: Let’s say we want to calculate an e-commerce brand’s COGS during the 2019 financial year. The COGS for the 2019 financial year is: 2 + 5 – 3 = $4 million.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Maybe your billing system is not ready, your invoicing is a patchwork, or your reconciliation and invoicing have to be done manually. The explosion of low and no-code solutions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. This podcast is an excerpt of Michael’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. He said that serial entrepreneurship is potentially overrated. Missed the session?