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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. It doesn’t matter if the acquirer “leaves you alone” for a while or does a quick integration. Not all of it.

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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. What is a SaaS business model?

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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. 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. Too many founder vesting issues.

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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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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. And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment.

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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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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Chargify has made our business much stronger! costs money and 2. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.