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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How quickly will we need to scale the application? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? Do you support discounts?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

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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Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subscription Model

OpenView Labs

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. After a few years, however, we realized that a subscription model would deliver more value for us and for our users. No sliding scale. Customers called us. No unexpected costs.

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

SaaStr

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). Leverage automation to support scaling. Monitoring these changes is more than a full-time job and can place significant pressure on growing companies to stay up to date.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

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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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. It got much better over time. A SaaStr Classic!!

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Should I sell a $20,000 engagement for a one week training course in a classroom or should I try to sell individual subscriptions to individuals around the world for only $100 a month, which was our initial starting price point, and we knew we had to burn the boats. So, let me walk you through that. We’re going to change things.

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