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8 Things That Change When Your Company is Acquired

SaaStr

Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is partially off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. It doesn’t matter if the acquirer “leaves you alone” for a while or does a quick integration. Not all of it. 7 years later. You just don’t know.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. It doesn’t matter if the acquirer “leaves you alone” for a while or does a quick integration. Contingent payments incent — and modify — behavior.

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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. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right).

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

ProfitWell

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. Different audiences require different targeting strategies. The subscription revenue cycle. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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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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