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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. You may be asked to own new stuff beyond just what your company / app does. It’s a lot of change.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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10+ Ways A Venture Financing Can Implode Post-Term Sheet

SaaStr

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. At least, just that one month during the funding process. And any odd stuff on the cap table, or existing terms — at least highlight them, and come with a solution.

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How to Write Effective Dunning Emails (30+ Examples Included)

Baremetrics

When most SaaS companies talk about reducing churn, they’re usually referring to voluntary churn. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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

SaaStr

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. .” It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. costs money and 2.