Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture. Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees.

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

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. Find out here.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 138

Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

The monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of my MarTech startup Friendly recently has exceeded $1,000 – just 94 days after its launch. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. The cheapest subscription was $29 a month - obviously too high.

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New CTO Underperforming Technical Team CTO Technical Review 87

Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

A related question is whether the arrival of Generative AI, and the fact that it’s become 10x easier to build AI-powered software, is a net benefit for AI-first SaaS startups. A few years ago, Louis wrote an excellent article titled Routes to Defensibility for your AI Startup.

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AI Generative AI New CTO CTO 98

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate. costs money and 2.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. A simple control panel brings it all together and makes infrastructure management easy.

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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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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

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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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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Pricing Technical Cofounder Scale New CTO 59

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. You can follow him for SaaS insights.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

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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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 114

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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Frontegg

JANUARY 27, 2022

When a customer completes a purchase, he will be expecting to get an invoice, preferably immediately. A webhooks from any invoicing app can be added to the eCommerce app, allowing you to trigger an invoice dispatch after every purchase, all in an automated and smooth manner. This is where webhooks come into play.

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New CTO SaaS Payment Features CTO 98

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. How Cynthia came up with the idea of a startup incubator. Her career spans nearly 25 years, and includes development skills in the full web stack, as well as the business side of the house.

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CTO Coach New CTO Leadership CTO 40

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. This is not new. So what is new? But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams.

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

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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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 174

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Subscription content—alive and thriving. Do you like me? There ya have it.

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Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 76