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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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FastSpring Annual Recap: Reflecting on 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021

FastSpring

While much of this was fueled by the strength of their offerings and the rise in ecommerce as a whole, at FastSpring, we rolled out a program to proactively assess and help optimize all facets of our customers’ ecommerce experience and rolled this program out to many of our largest customers. We acquired SalesRight.

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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. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Another good example is from my own personal experience at my last job at Stripe.

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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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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.