Rachit is the founder of Stackby, a tool that gives you the building blocks - such as spreadsheets, databases and APIs - in an all-in-one flexible platform to plan, manage and automate your work. They are at $50,000 MRR and the initial growth came from AppSumo. He shares his valuable lessons in this episode. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!

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Brand: Intercom, Hubspot

Person: Nathan Latka, Dan Martell

Book: Zero to One (https://amzn.to/3g3ga8j)

Tools: Slack, Zoom

Apps: Techcrunch

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Pierre de Wulf is the founder of ScrapingBee, which is an API for scraping the web by handling headless browsers and rotating proxies. They’re currently at $15,000 dollars MRR. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!

Favorites:

Brand: Lemlist

Person: Arvid Kahl, Nathan Latka

Tools: Todoist, Notion, Slack, Spark email, Datadog

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Dennis Smink is the founder of Ploi.io, which is software that makes it easy to manage your own servers and sites with any server provider. As always, we would like to hear more of the founding story and the strategies that accelerated their growth success. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!

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Brand: Upvoty

Tools: PHPstorm, Crisp, Discord, Upvoty

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Yannick Veys is the co-founder of HypeFury, a tool to grow and monetize your Twitter audience. They grew from an MRR of just $5 thousand dollars into currently $11,000 dollars in just a couple of months. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing! 

Favorites:

Brand: Baremetrics

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Hey Hey! Welcome to the SaaS Pirates podcast. In this show, we keep it short and to-the-point to discover the real value behind the growth or strategy of the SaaS businesses that join us. We want to learn what worked for them, what resources and tools they recommend, and of course, we want to be inspired by their stories. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing! Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PIRATE').

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If you’re struggling with onboarding new users successfully, or if you’re experiencing a high churn rate, chances are that your users just won’t find the real Aha moment in your product on time. Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PCC').

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Many of you know Adobe from their products like Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere Pro. Back in the old days you would walk to the store and buy the latest version of these products. Nowadays, new updates are just one download away. We now know Adobe as software as a service, but there’s a really interesting story behind the transition that Adobe went through when they became a SaaS. Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PCC').

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When building a product, you almost always start out with your own ideas on how the product should operate and look like. Which is fine. I mean, you have to start from somewhere. But, in 99% of the time, you’re not the end consumer. You’re not your own customer. And whether you like it or not, in order to build a valid business, you should build something of value to your customers, not for yourself. Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PCC').

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Shopify has now over $1 billion in revenue and more than 1 million businesses as customers from 175 countries. Tobi Lutke became a billionaire by scratching his own itch and combined 2 things he loved the most: programming and snowboarding. When building his e-commerce business, he quickly noticed there wasn’t any good software out there to set up your own shop. So, he started building his shop all by himself. Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PCC').

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According to a report by McKinsey & Company, subscription companies (with revenues in the $25 million to $75 million range) that had the lowest churn were those that cross-sold multiple services to about one-third of their customers. If you’re just managing expectations, instead of creating new opportunities, you’re not doing it right and your customer will lose interest in using your product. Need a great feedback tool? https://upvoty.com (10% off with code 'PCC').

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