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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. Many founders hit the brakes on growth to pivot towards profitability when in reality, the right combination is aiming for durable growth with a profitable business model. Why did you do the deal?

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Setup An Online Store On A Tight Budget

Backlinkfy

We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. Today, selling products through traditional brick and mortar stores are slowly depleting, due to most purchases that start with an online search.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

While not disastrous, these startups demonstrate the significance of choosing the right funding for your business. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Buffer spent $3.3

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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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. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.