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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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SaaStr Crosses 50,000,000 Views on Quora; Our Top Recent Answers

SaaStr

With that, here are the top/most popular recent answers: Do CEOs have personal assistants? What makes a bad CTO? What happens to the clients of a mission-critical, B2B enterprise SaaS startup when it fails? Do all SaaS companies in the USA put late payment fees in their contract? Does this work?

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. He had a sense for it. He saw something. So, let me walk you through that. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. In a nutshell, look at how much revenue you want to earn from each customer and the methods you want to use to attract your customer to build a better pricing strategy.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS). In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).