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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. 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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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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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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

SaaStr

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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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. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe).

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. Show Introduction [00:09].

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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. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch. Unnecessary revenue leakage occurs through failed and delinquent payments.