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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It They were acquired by private equity.

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25 Tools for Bootstrapped Companies

Neil Patel

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps refers to succeed through your own efforts without relying on investments or help from anyone else. Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Basecamp is a bootstrapped company, for instance.

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How to Maintain Control of Your Startup When Things Get Bumpy

OpenView Labs

You may start to miss your revenue targets. But challenges and obstacles are just part of the reality of entrepreneurship. As a business leader, the way you face adversity could very well determine your chances of success. As a business leader, the way you face adversity could very well determine your chances of success.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Billing may not be one of the most exhilarating parts of your company, but it is one of the most important parts of your business…it is how you get paid. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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How to Make Money Blogging

Neil Patel

Currently, my revenue is $381,772 for 30 days. The process is certainly challenging, especially with the internet painted with a lot of bad advice. A few extra dollars for better privacy and security is an investment. Finally, enter your payment information, read the terms and conditions, and hit submit.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com. Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? And so really it became a bad habit. Harry Stebbings: And then what was the founding moment with InCountry after the bad habit of selling companies? Where do many people go wrong?