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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. How are we going to do that?

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. That makes measuring value easier because you’ve already identified what business challenge you’re tackling. Thank you Ceci.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Wooden on Leadership. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Steal Like an Artist. The Decision Book.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. My account runs my website. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.