SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. 30% of all mobile apps with a paid subscription use RevenueCat to manage it. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. Why is that interesting?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers who actively cancel their subscription. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. After a few years, however, we realized that a subscription model would deliver more value for us and for our users. Recognizing Your Cue – Opportunities and Conviction. Customers called us.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 30, 2023

He spent 12 years at Amazon, leading organizations as a general manager and technology director. Then he became CTO at Bezos Academy, a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Bezos. After leaving Bezos Academy, he decided to start a paid newsletter focused on career development, organization design, and hiring.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. Traditionally, you’d hear from the customer success manager when your subscription is about to expire. Traditionally, the product function fell under Technology. More than 50% of Fortune 100 have a Chief Product Officer (CPO).

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. ProfitWell is not only a platform, it’s also a team that plugs into subscription management systems like Chargify and performs revenue automation activities. You need a RevOps team or manager focused on revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Here’s how Morten Primdahl, co-founder & former CTO of Zendesk, put it in a recent conversation: “For someone like me who prefers to build business logic, using GPT is no more of a moat than using MySQL is. For example, it may take an AI millions of examples to accurately extract and process all of the data from an invoice.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

We needed to stay relevant along the customer’s journey and we needed to find our own cloud provider that was going to allow for us to scale quickly, to have the security that we knew customers were demanding when they were searching for cloud platforms. And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. Find out here. It’s extremely unusual for a SaaS company to credit a company subscription for reduced use. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. The problem was, it was very hard to find people to talk to about your prototype and conduct your research. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, the industry is known for delays in projects and in payments, and small companies often struggle with cash management as they deal with multiple projects at the same time, relying mainly on excel and word to issue budgets and invoices, as well as manage their receivables across several projects.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. How do you find it in the first place?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Your top subscription news. What about the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids? How many CSMs should you hire? We value product marketing to the highest, so we’re always keeping an eye on the PMA’s finds. And that’s a wrap for your December 6 subscription news. And Sprinklr acquires Nanigans.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. The problem was, it was very hard to find people to talk to about your prototype and conduct your research. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. The company even took $2.5M

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BetterCloud

JUNE 4, 2019

Like a kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, our great IT leader, the CTO, could deploy rules that would govern the perimeter of our castle. With this question, you can survey your teams to find these services. Audit your accounting records for reoccurring subscription services to cloud or SaaS providers. It was easy once.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 28, 2020

Sit down with Chargify CTO Michael Klett and I, as we unravel the mysteries of RevOps. Finding competitive landscapes. For Michael it was clear that subscriptions were going to be a thing, although subscriptions were geared towards B2C and nobody really knew the extent to which B2B would move to SaaS.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

I follow DHH and Jason Fried on Twitter and generally find myself agreeing with their often-contrarian points of view. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. The Basecamp guys have been busy lately.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Find nothing—vacuum. Drill down on the current AI emergence, find so much that, like me, you’ll have trouble even keeping up. Hearing similar hyperbole about AI—and seeing a lot of VC money pivoting away from crypto and chasing AI instead—I get it that people smell another hype bubble. Once burned, twice shy.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

They are hiring multiple “AI” roles now and they have the capital and focus to “eventually” catch up — but it is very much a catch-up game … That said, they seem to prefer catchup waiting till others explore new tech they swoop in an (claim) to perfect it from a usability pov. They just seem a little gross.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 14, 2023

I have access to ChatGPT’s GPT-4 model through a $20/mo ChatGPT+ subscription, and the answers are consistently solid. Imagine these are questions about all those Microsoft Word or Excel features that you can’t figure out or even find in the Office 365 Hell-Menu™️. Not a developer? GPT-4 is just as smart there.

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SaaStr

JULY 23, 2021

Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Tolithia Kornweibel, Chief Revenue Officer @Gusto. Dave Walters, CTO, Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success, Hired. Amy Pisano, CRO, Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO, AgentSync. Suzanne Xie, Head of Invoicing @ Stripe.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Let’s try to find that out in this write-up. Here is a list of people who I believe are predominantly found in the C-Suite role: Chief Executive Officer Chief Customer Officer Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Ben Murray. Dharmesh Shah. Steli Efti.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? These are the primal questions you will find answers to in this article. You will know if the customer or key customer is keen on being associated again with the company when their subscription expires. Whatever suits the customer would be the right time.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. "MacGrowther" An aside: Not that marketers need more jargon and acronyms, but we find it helpful as internal shorthand at Hull. ;). Less grand architect, more MacGyver. It is operations => rules-based growth.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. When they are faced with a major decision, you might find them looking around and wondering who is supposed to make the decision. You are going to make mistakes and that is alright.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Subscription content—alive and thriving. Do you like me? Or do you like like me?

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Crafty CTO

JULY 7, 2023

My reaction was, that applies to the free version and / or the old days, that with the advent of paid subscriptions, OpenAI no longer trained their models using inputs from subscribers. What a great incentive to find an alternative that doesn’t force this ridiculous choice on their paying customers. Shame on you, OpenAI.

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