User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As a growing SaaS company, there is a lot to think about in a day: How is my ARR doing? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. As a SaaS company, you could even get flagged for an audit because of quick growth. SaaS company Basecamp discovered the nee d for these steps firsthand. “ Are we delighting our costumes?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Wondering how your SaaS business got slapped with a multi-million dollar sales tax bill from one or multiple states? Probably because you, like so many other SaaS companies out there, didn’t even know you had to collect and remit sales tax. Sales tax laws across the United States are pretty inconsistent, especially for SaaS solutions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software. There, Amplitude has become part of the core product stack for many SaaS and software leaders for product analytics. CEO Spencer Skates owns 8.5%, CTO Curtis Liu 8.0%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins?

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Frontegg

JANUARY 27, 2022

These “software hooks” are helping SaaS companies make the shift towards Product-Led Growth by giving users more in-app freedom and reducing the need for cumbersome support emails or calls. One such example is automatically shooting up an onboarding video for new customers. The SaaS space has become very dynamic.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

What does it mean to make your product the star in your SaaS growth strategy? Ciara Peter (Gainsight VP of Product & Design) and Mickey Alon (CTO & Founder of Gainsight PX) share their practical tips for product leaders looking to achieve business growth. Every year, millions of new products are created and launched.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post will walk you through what SaaS companies need to know about sales tax compliance, how to know when and from which customers you should collect sales tax, and best of all, how to automate sales tax so you can check “Do something about sales tax” off your to-do list once and for all. Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies?

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

These 18 women are powerful, relentless and are all making SaaS and tech in general a better place. They have impressive professional achievements, all the way from founding companies through to running international operations across continents all the way to funding the SaaS companies of the future. They are stars in tech in Asia.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Our August SaaS conversation focused on high performance in R&D, with OPEXEngine CEO and Founder Lauren Kelley hosting Bain Expert Partner Rob Levy for an energizing discussion on this critical topic. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. ” — Ankit Sindhi, Founder, Spurt.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

In my guest post on CustomerThink I talked about the benefits of community building and how it helps SaaS companies get a few steps ahead of their competition. To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community? .

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? My conclusion was that Generative AI is an asteroid impact event for B2B software, comparable to the launch of the iPhone or the Internet itself. But unlike most on-premise software companies in the 2000s, the SaaS leaders of today aren’t doomed.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Presenting: the first pre-built suite of universal SaaS capabilities, enabling SaaS teams to focus on core features, shorten time-to-market and drive user adoption. Frontegg liberates dev teams from the burden of building SaaS capabilities that have become de-facto standards in the landscape of modern SaaS products.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Who’s here on a CEO or more on a business hat SaaS?

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies. Connect with Natalie on Facebook.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. The SaaS operating model requires execution across functional activities.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. As new products are released, we will be embedding our team earlier into the value chain so we can prevent problems before they occur.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

Braze was early to taking a next-generation approach to marketing automation software, focused on being mobile and messaging first. Braze is yet another SaaS leader growing even faster past $200m ARR. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. 60% still “counts” as software. And it has been.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1 He likes to optimize and accelerate software development by presenting complex concepts in a simple way. . #3 Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers? Well, in the past several years, there’s been a tremendous number of companies that have built specifically for developers and use this as a way to get into these new markets, to displace incumbents and disrupt the competition.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Continuing my little series using the "minimum viable" approach , here is my 2nd DO for SaaS startups: Build the right team I've written about the topic before, so if you've read this post from early this year most of what I'm going to write now won't be new for you and you may want to skip this article. What comes next?

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Why most SaaS companies are blind to some of the best talent on the market By Geoff Roberts 9 min read I believe that most SaaS companies are missing out of a major opportunity when hiring—the opportunity to hire more part-time help, where the employee acts as a fully integrated (albeit part-time) member of the team on an ongoing basis.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? The Takeaway — There has to be a pathway.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Consumption pricing –a licensing model where software is sold based on use (actual traffic, transactions, etc.) Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models” headlined a recent TechCrunch article. 5 Benefits of Consumption-Based Software Pricing.

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players! New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. But how do you know which?

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. I just knew there was always going to be something new to learn and I wasn’t going to get stagnant in it. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The importance of embedded financial services in business software to provide seamless and accessible financial products for businesses is discussed, particularly in emerging markets where businesses may be underbanked or have difficulty finding financial products. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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Outseta

MARCH 21, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read As I’ve been engaging with SaaS start-ups across industries this year, one thing has become certain; real estate tech is hot in 2018. Approved - Approved is a San Diego based SaaS company that’s building a platform to modernize mortgage lending. Team: Co-founders Andy Taylor (CEO) and Navtej Sadhal (CTO).

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There is nothing better than absorbing knowledge from leading SaaS professionals when it comes to Product-Led Growth (PLG). PLG is taking center stage across all SaaS domains due to the benefits it brings to the table. With over a decade of SaaS expertise (4 in PLG), she founded Product-Led Growth Hub , the world’s first PLG academy.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Suddenly you find yourself creating your CV in the Canva software without realising it.

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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. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. That’s when he realized they would need to find a new way to grow. What is Buffer.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bob made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Crossbeam. * What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? * Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Loving our podcast content? What did he mean by this? Why is this?

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