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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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FastSpring Annual Recap: Reflecting on 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021

FastSpring

While much of this was fueled by the strength of their offerings and the rise in ecommerce as a whole, at FastSpring, we rolled out a program to proactively assess and help optimize all facets of our customers’ ecommerce experience and rolled this program out to many of our largest customers. We acquired SalesRight.

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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

SaaStr

Or 2) File sales tax returns online through a sales tax solution that tells you when, where, and what you need to remit. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We Your tax payments are also made for you with TaxJar’s AutoFile. .

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How to Write Effective Dunning Emails (30+ Examples Included)

Baremetrics

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Just how much damage is involuntary churn causing?

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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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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. 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.