SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

David Sacks – GP at Craft Ventures, and this week I thought I’d wrap it up with Part 2 stemming from a great session with Spenser Skates , CEO and CoFounder of Amplitude. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. First bullet is definitely creative grinders.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“The problem with per-seat pricing is that it by definition makes your biggest customers your best customers. And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My Compared with that standard, flat rate pricing is like putting lead shoes on a dancer.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Fintech scaling vertical SaaS : Digitising these workflows will open the possibility to layer in financial revenues. The Graneet team has built, scaled, and sold tech products but has also spent time working inside construction companies, understanding their day-to-day pains.

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Kellblog

JULY 21, 2019

Measured the show solely by qualified leads for his territory, discounting company visibility and leads for other territories to zero. And that’s good — you’re going to get leads and engage with people in your market, not win a design competition.). Didn’t use his pass to attend a single session. Absolutely. .

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. I froze my subscription for now and was on the fence about canceling, but after all these complaints, I’m definitely done with it.".

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