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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & Customer acquisition. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. But also generally pretty high CAC, customer acquisition costs. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Transcript.

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Growth Engineer Job Description Cheatsheet

Sylvia Ng

What do all these job descriptions tell us about growth engineering? At least a Bachelor degree in software engineering. Exceptional proficiency in software engineering. 3+ years of experience in product management, user acquisition marketing or similar fields. Marketing or related field a plus.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open source can provide a number of different advantages for a business, on both the consumption and production end of the spectrum.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

We went through an acquisition and we got bought. I got into the game there, obviously went through the acquisition, that’s how we came up with the idea for the company. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. Don’t worry about it.”

Scale 108
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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Katie Carty Tierney is an Area Vice President for the Americas at BMC Software. She entered Sales through unconventional channels, having started her career as a software engineer, then taking a break to build her family (four children in five years!), and then re-entering the workforce as a Solutions Engineer.

Scale 130