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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

What got you into this particular business model? Secondly, I’ve worked across many, many business models. And of course, we need to know how those businesses work here at Flippa. So I’ve worked in SaaS businesses that were fast growth. Like what led you to become the CEO, Flip?

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Nir Eyal on designing healthy habits – and the psychology behind them

Intercom, Inc.

Nir’s studies sit at the intersection of technology, business and psychology. A veteran of the advertising and video gaming industries, he has started (and sold) two technology companies and has taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Short on time?

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Over time, Instacart planned to build out an advertising revenue stream with CPG companies, offering them effective performance marketing with a primed, high-intent audience. billion to $20.7

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

When I left Buildium five years later we’d grown from a start-up to a business with more than 12,000 customers and $16M in revenue. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. More than anything, I’d fallen in love with the challenge of building a business and helping it grow into its potential.

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4 Creative Ways to Navigate a Career That Starts in Sales

Sales Hacker

SDRs and BDRs are often young and ambitious, and their investment in these entry-level positions is formative to developing their sales style and shaping the career paths they will choose. Sales development and customer success have in common a customer-facing approach. SDRs can make excellent customer success reps.

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SaaS Marketing Requires Focus

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

There's a guy in my town who advertises himself as "The Bulkhead Man." But that would be a bad idea. Then he'd be just another guy in the long list of other "contractors" and "handymen" who advertise in my local paper. What he does is install the entryways that go from the outside of a house into a basement. You'll be buried.

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