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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.

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Generating growth: Insights from a former software company CRO | Episode 37

Payrix

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. At the board level, a CRO must demonstrate and articulate the strategies that are in motion to increase software value.

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Scaling The Top SMB SaaS Companies: What It Takes with GGV Capital Managing Director Jeff Richards and GGV Capital Partner Tiffany Luck (Pod 647 + Video)

SaaStr

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

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Alternative Marketing Strategies for SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

The phone rings. If you chose not to answer the phone, you’d be in the majority. People love talking to you on the phone – just not necessarily when you’re selling something. Buyers need to be in control When the phone rings, or an email pops into our inbox, we are put in a reactive position. Do you pick up?

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Listen to your team.

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5 Resources to Build Your App Idea

Neil Patel

Meanwhile, the average person has more than 80 apps on their phone. Consider each of the following monetization methods to decide which is right for your app: Ads: Create a free app and earn money by selling ads in your app. One-time payment: Charge a one-time fee to access the app. Considering building an app?

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5 Interesting Learnings from BigCommerce at $180,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels. Payments partners are the biggest part of this. Shopify does payments itself, while BigCommerce has its partners handle payments and instead takes a rev share. More on that strategy here. BigCommerce will be a fascinating one to track.