ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. is a much worthier investment for your 2020. 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.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

They want to own the whole stack, and will want to have their own secret source as part of it. It’s not like they don’t have the capital to invest in training… (NotAFood) Apple has shown time and time again that they have the human capital and money to tackle massive projects discretely.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M of the $3.5M

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Eyal Manor : But there is a lot of investment in that direction. Megan Leuders: And when you were talking to CEOs and CTOs today, what do you believe is the biggest technology challenge that they are facing as a SaaS company? So deep integration from day one of the data pipelines in real time is super critical.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 30, 2023

Then he became CTO at Bezos Academy, a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Bezos. After leaving Bezos Academy, he decided to start a paid newsletter focused on career development, organization design, and hiring. “ I want to invest as little as possible to get 80% of the value.

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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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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Brianne Kimmel made the move from marketing through growth to advising and investing. Common ares of ownership we often see include: Payment operations - integration billing, subscription, accounting, and sales opportunity data.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts. You will know if the customer or key customer is keen on being associated again with the company when their subscription expires. The idea is to provide customers with value to keep them invested with the company.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He led early-stage investments in Box and Yammer.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

In the comments, several users immediately focus on the implications for the stock photo industry: Note, again, this is not “at some point we’ll be able to move off iStock”—but rather “we cancelled our iStock subscription last month.” For example, I recently talked with the CEO of a biotech investment fund.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This [includes] things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface, A/B testing, subscriptions, all these other kinds of small optimizations that you need to make a good consumer product. You’ve got to think about taxes. There’s just a lot of work.

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