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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

SaaStr

Or 2) File sales tax returns online through a sales tax solution that tells you when, where, and what you need to remit. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We Your tax payments are also made for you with TaxJar’s AutoFile. .

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…). What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. But what most people miss.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer.