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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch. Unnecessary revenue leakage occurs through failed and delinquent payments.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

It made the rounds in tech circles online. 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.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. Show Introduction [00:09].

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Putting prices online seems to be a SaaS entrepreneur’s worst nightmare.

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