Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it. Expanding into new sales channels is a common growth play.

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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. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. What is Buffer. Tweet this quote.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. Our less expensive pay-as-you-grow model was in line with what our clients and the market demanded.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We are enhancing nearly all aspects of our ecommerce and payments capabilities to make our customers even more successful. We added three new executives to our team.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models” headlined a recent TechCrunch article. It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With ProfitWell’s inception 7 years ago, we began with a mission of understanding and compiling a unified theory for subscription growth. Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users. What’s coming next.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. There’s a huge surge in the content marketing sphere , supplemented by social media madness and competition for eye-catching, compelling ad space. But since marketers today have nearly all the same tools at their disposal, there’s an issue here. Is content marketing dead? Do you like me?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. So Gartner says 2018, the SaaS market is over $73 billion dollar, it’s growing very, very quickly. Eyal Manor: So we have a lot to talk about. what are your thoughts?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey. Your top subscription news. Product marketers: move west. The Product Marketing Alliance dropped the Product Marketing Salary Survey. based stats, apparently product marketers in California earn over $152k.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 28, 2020

Sit down with Chargify CTO Michael Klett and I, as we unravel the mysteries of RevOps. In this episode we discuss the relationship between RevOps and marketing with Dave Rogenmoser, CEO of Proof , and how it’s not just about marketing or sales anymore—it’s about helping. RevOps and marketing. Social proof marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. Caught your interest?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO NEW COMPANIES PLOT THEIR COURSE. Further Reading We Spent $3.3M

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. So it’s a great show.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers who actively cancel their subscription. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Since we’re big fans of customer interviews, and because we didn’t want to make this article too subjective, we’ve also included the perspective of other 8 business owners, marketing managers, and growth marketers that agreed to share their know-how with us.

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

I read a brilliant tip from Arvid Kahl to start with the audience instead of the idea: As a result of the establishment of my agency Wortspiel and my previous career, it was clear that my audience should be in the marketing sector. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Top 30 SaaS Influencers You Need to Follow in 2022. Aaron Levie.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Since we’re big fans of customer interviews, and because we didn’t want to make this article too subjective, we’ve also included the perspective of other 8 business owners, marketing managers, and growth marketers that agreed to share their know-how with us.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

RevOps is a centralized function that helps recognize and align revenue from sales, marketing, and customer success. RevOps isn’t new—some form of revenue operations has been around for a very long time, it simply lacked a title. Said hops came from a new cultivar out of the Pacific Northwest called Cascade. Key takeaways.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Responsible for recurring revenue in SaaS-based economy dealing with renewals and expansion. In the SaaS-based economy, subscriptions are like gold as they can help you generate revenue regularly. He/she can align different departments like the product, sales, marketing, and finance with customer success.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. The Blockchain services market is around $5 Billion today,” says Shklovsky. “In

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc. Just to name a few.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Integrate email marketing (HubSpot). Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

After all, as consumers, we enjoy many subscriptions and services that come with a simple, one-size-fits-all bill. But is a multiple-choice approach the only option for SaaS businesses seeking to grow in an increasingly complicated market? For example, if you subscribe to the New York Times , you pay a flat price per month or year.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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