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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Will you need to add arbitrary new pages?

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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

Indeed this was also my #1 mistake and the #1 I see from so many startups learning to go upmarket. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing. They don’t show up in person.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . The first step to sales tax compliance is knowing if what you sell is even taxable.

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The most common mistake SaaS companies make on sales tax collection and filings

SaaStr

They learned the importance of sales tax compliance the hard way—when they had to pay millions in back taxes. And, like every software startup, their small team had a million other things to worry about. Meanwhile, new tax legislation for SaaS companies was brewing. It’s not hard to understand how Basecamp got this wrong.

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Frontegg Announces $5M Seed Round for First of Its Kind SaaS-as-a-Service Platform Aimed at Accelerating Global SaaS Innovation

Frontegg

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. The company is set out to accelerate innovation in the global SaaS market, projected to reach over $116 billion in 2020 ¹, with over 80 percent of companies planning to offer SaaS by 2022 ².