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8 Things That Change When Your Company is Acquired

SaaStr

Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is partially off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. It doesn’t matter if the acquirer “leaves you alone” for a while or does a quick integration. Not all of it. 7 years later. You just don’t know.

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

SaaStr

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. It doesn’t matter if the acquirer “leaves you alone” for a while or does a quick integration. Contingent payments incent — and modify — behavior.

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

SaaStr

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. A charismatic CEO is able to get investor excited, but the CTO, and/or the rest of the team is just weak.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

Wade Foster is Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, a SaaS company that allows users to integrate web applications they use. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor. Deep Dive Session: “How to make legal part of your strategic revenue team” Gitlab VP of Legal Jamie Hurewitz. The Deep Dives ??.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

Baremetrics

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Reduce failed payments. Best of all, it integrates easily and quickly. “We

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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. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. Then something really interesting happened.

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