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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. The phase from $2m to $12m ARR … once I had a great VPS, VP Product, VP Marketing, and VP Customer Success … that phase … and man it was hard … and I worked 24×7 … but my “Quality of Life” was so very, very. The pay is terrible.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

The real conflict is around trying to serve both sets of messaging and marketing at the same time since how you market to SMBs is very different than Enterprise customers. So, that’s where the battle happens of going to market for Enterprise customers without neglecting SMBs. Is it Cheaper or Better to go PLG?

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Then Salesforce lost $50B in market cap. Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. UiPath saw a huge drop of 30%. What happened?

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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