Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

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. Time Is Money: Focus On Your Core Competencies. If we had used any other system, we would have had to write the code ourselves to handle our usage based billing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He and I went to MIT together.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. ” Who doesn’t?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: Would love to talk about finding those initial customers who you tested with.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…). Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I see it all the time, which is, you said it super well, make money, save money, reduce risk. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Bernadette Nixon. Jay Snyder.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Firstly, in the past five years, there’s been an explosion of technology companies — Scott Brinker’s team at ChiefMartec produce the dizzying Martech supergraphic each year. And with that, more data disintegration.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? This is a relationship worth investing in. I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. I’m asking you to pay to use our technology for your 200 person client success work. Find innovators (10:36). Well, right.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

But finding out post-term sheet about too many material issues can lead VCs to run for the hills. And any odd stuff on the cap table, or existing terms — at least highlight them, and come with a solution. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. Half of a VC investment is in the CEO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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