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My App Stack: Miguel Carranza, CTO of RevenueCat

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We’re kicking off a new series on SaaStr on what top SaaS and Cloud leaders (CROs, CMOs, and CTOs) use in their tech stack. First up is Miguel Carranza, CTO of RevenueCat. What’s the number one top new app you’ve added the past year? It’s the nature of mobile. Linear, Snowflake #3.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What are the rules for subscriptions?

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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

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Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We As a SaaS company, you can meet the economic nexus threshold by selling a certain number of software subscriptions in a state to only a handful of customers.

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The most common mistake SaaS companies make on sales tax collection and filings

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Early on, Basecamp had to deal with banks that were wary of their subscription plans. Meanwhile, new tax legislation for SaaS companies was brewing. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO and co-founder of Basecamp, told TaxJar.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

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So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it. Expanding into new sales channels is a common growth play.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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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. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. What is Buffer. Click To Tweet.

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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)

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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. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!