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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What are the rules for subscriptions?

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

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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Webhooks: Enabling PLG in SaaS Applications

Frontegg

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. Try it out now.

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The subscription sales guide: how to sell subscriptions (B2B/B2C)

ProfitWell

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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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Building an AI fortress in the age of GPT-4

Point Nine Land

Here’s how Morten Primdahl, co-founder & former CTO of Zendesk, put it in a recent conversation: “For someone like me who prefers to build business logic, using GPT is no more of a moat than using MySQL is. For example, it may take an AI millions of examples to accurately extract and process all of the data from an invoice.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

The technology just wasn’t there. You can actually look at a lot of social networking technology as if it’s almost an alternative to AI. 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. David George: Sure. Yeah, of course.

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