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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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Your top subscription news. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. And that’s a wrap for your December 6 subscription news. On today’s episode, we’re calculating the ROI of your CSM. And Sprinklr acquires Nanigans.

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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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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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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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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. Casey Winters is a growth and SaaS marketing expert who has transformed how startups grow and scale into large companies. Ben Murray.

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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. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo.

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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. Flat rate pricing is a subscription model that offers users a single price per month or year for all features and all levels of access. Many consumer-facing subscriptions offer a single subscription price.

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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?” B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies.

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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. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. We've Spotted the trends, tactics & techniques from sitting deep in the data layer of scaling SaaS teams.

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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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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 don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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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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