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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Because our go to market, we were spared that, but if you go to market is very high touch sort of enterprise field sales, you will be under incredible pressure in the early days to become that custom. And so I always over invested in hiring the right people. My hiring playbook is very simple. So we prefer to not hire jerks.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. The AOV can be calculated by dividing the total number of orders received by the total sales revenue. The operations of a business including sales tax, VAT filings, billing, order processing, and online payments. Amazon Marketplace. Back office. Dashboard. Google Trends.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

SaaStr

Marten Mickos: And if you are a product manager, or if you are in charge of go-to-market, or sales, or you’re the CEO of the company, I encourage you to think about the whole product that you need to deliver to the customer, and think about the entire job that needs to get done. It could be work done by suppliers.