User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it. hiring in-house talent). They are prone to error (which further increases risk), not to mention time-consuming. For example, you hire a developer to move you over to an ERP like NetSuite.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Subscription content—alive and thriving. Do you like me? Or do you like like me?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Rand Fishkin of Moz poured his heart and frustrations into his book Lost and Founder , then began building SparkToro taking a drastically different approach than he did in building Moz. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. of the $3.5M

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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