2016 Weekly Reading List
by Sebastien Mirolo on Fri, 1 Jan 2016
Short list updated weekly of articles and papers we read and found
worth mentioning.
Week ending Dec 25th 2016
- How to Build Your Startup MVP without a Developer
- Five things I will do different for my next startup
- Meaningful VC Exits
Week ending Dec 11th 2016
- How to Make Your Product an Overnight Success in Just 10 Short Years
- What’s the Lead Generation Profile of Fast Growing SaaS?
- The Important SaaS Accounting Changes Coming In 2017
- Best practices for recurring and subscription payments
Week ending Dec 4th 2016
- The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides
- The Hockey Stick Principles of Growth
- What is Your Digital Business REALLY Worth?
Week ending Nov 27th 2016
Week ending Nov 13th 2016
- It’s Price Before Product. Period.
- How ReadMe Went From SaaS To On-Premises In Less Than One Week
- How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards
- When should you start a SaaS?
Week ending Nov 6th 2016
- What Is a Business Model?
- Zero to Validating a SaaS: A Step-by-Step Recap
- Can IT Survive?
- Enterprise Software: Death and Transfiguration
- List of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally
Week ending Oct 30th 2016
Week ending Oct 23rd 2016
- An overview of the Growing “SaaS Enabled Marketplace” Ecosystem
- What it's like buying a $128k side project
Week ending Oct 16th 2016
- No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
- 5 Ways to Build a $100 Million Business
- How to Forecast Revenue and Growth
- Why Customer Lifetime Value is a misleading metric for Bootstrapped businesses
Week ending Oct 2nd 2016
- Top Ten Resources to Help You Grow Your SaaS Business
- Is it hard to set up a Saas business that becomes successful?
- VC & The Law of Large Numbers
Week ending Sep 25th 2016
Week ending Sep 18th 2016
- Venture capital is a hell of a drug
- Get Rid of the Boring
- The problem with month-over-month growth rates
Week ending Sep 4th 2016
- The API for absurdity
- How to Design a SlideShare that Pulls Over 1 Million Views
- Machines + Humans = Future of SaaS
- Funded vs Bootstrapped: Comparing the metrics of 37 SaaS Companies
Week ending Aug 28th 2016
Week ending Aug 14th 2016
- ‘Scale slower’ and other lessons from 20 years in startups
- For SLAs, there’s no such thing as 100% Uptime – only 100% Transparency
- Insights From 100 SaaS Companies: Why It’s Time To Rethink Your Packaging Strategy
- A Structural Pricing Competitive Advantage In SaaS - The Three Part Tariff
- Set Your Company Up for Marketing Success by Working Backwards from 15 Million Blog Visits
- There Are Only 3 Pricing Strategies For Your Startup
- 21 SaaS blogs to accelerate your startup's growth
Week ending Jul 31st 2016
Week ending Jul 24th 2016
- SaaS Valuations: How to Value a SaaS Business in 2016
- How can companies be revenue funded and survive without venture capital?
- B2B SaaS: Evolving from founder selling to a sales team
- The Realities of Running a Solo SaaS Business
- The SaaS Business Model: How To Keep Collecting The Rent
- Let’s Steal From Moz Whiteboard Friday
- How Rob Walling Bootstrapped Drip into a 7 Figure SaaS Business
- The Art of Product Marketing
Week ending Jul 3rd 2016
- What are the consequences of launching a SaaS without a payment plan in place?
- From Losing Money to a 51% Profit Margin in 5 Months
Week ending Jun 26th 2016
- How we grew revenue by 20% every month without investors
- 3 Landing Page Mistakes Sabotaging Your ROI
- SaaS Pricing Model: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
- How non-technical startup founders can find their technical 'other half'
- The Lack of Options for (Startup Employees’) Options
- What all Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Prorata Rights
- The Da Vinci Curse and the Transformations of Work
Week ending Jun 19th 2016
- Gone fishin': Patagonia bids farewell to mobile app
- Why The Future of Sales Looks A Lot Less Salesy
- To Sell is Human
Week ending Jun 5th 2016
- The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
- Some Good Advice to Ignore
- Why Bootstrapping Our Startup Was One of the Best Decisions We Ever Made
- Not Every Startup Should Be Venture Backed - A quick gut check
- Why the Traditional Marketing Funnel is Sabotaging Your Conversion Rate
- At $50k in MRR, Running Out of Money Is No Longer an Excuse
- 18 Tips and Tricks on Conducting A Killer Customer Interview
- How to Interview your Customers
- A Simple but Effective Framework for Landing Page Information Hierarchy
Week ending Apr 24th 2016
Week ending Apr 17th 2016
- Solving the Cash Problems from self-funding Rapid Growth
- How We're Succeeding as a Self-funded Team of 2
- 6 Experts on How Solopreneurs Can Use Content Marketing for Business
- The 7 Factors To Consider When Pricing Your Startup's Product
- Insightful Study of 386 SaaS Startup Pricing Pages
- Brutal Honesty: The Developer CEO & Our Journey
- 22 Reasons Why Your SaaS Is Losing a Ton of Money (And How to Fix That)
- Not everyone wants funding
- How To Analyze Your Startup Like A VC In 15 Minutes Or Less
- The 9Mile Innovation Framework: Understanding Customer Pain Points
Week ending Mar 20th 2016
- The Key Drivers for SaaS Success
- Unit of Value: A Framework for Scaling
- 16 SEO Experiments That Will Change The Way You Think About SEO (Forever)
- What Online Shoppers Want: Bridging the E-Commerce Gap [Infographic]
- Should You Raise VC?
- How to quit your job and experience financial freedom in under 3 months
- How to run a company with (almost) no rules?
- CAC Payback Period: The Most Misunderstood SaaS Metric
- I Am Not an Entrepreneur
- Django as a framework for startups...
- How BuzzSumo Achieved $2.5m Annual Revenue in its First Year: Case Study in SaaS Growth
Week ending Mar 6th 2016
- The Little-Known Metrics Your SaaS Company Should Be Measuring (But Probably Isn’t)
- 4 Simple Ways to Test Your Business Idea Before You Launch
- Not All Revenue Dollars Are Created Equal
- The Future of Inbound Marketing: What Will Thrive in 2016?
- 10 Things That Change When You Stop Bootstrapping
- Why e-receipts are important for customers & retailers alike
Week ending Feb 9th 2016
- Why Shitty Products Survive (and Thrive!)
- Increasingly popular update technique for iOS apps puts users at risk
- Can an SaaS business be established with a low budget or self funding?
- Save: How to Build a Service Empire At Lightning Speed
- Smart shopping startup FiveStars turned down VC money and almost died — now it's worth hundreds of millions
- How Mattress Startup Tuft & Needle Said No To VC Money, Borrowed $500K And Opened Its First Store
- Silicon Valley Lies And Those Who Tell Them
- Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
- One Management Concept
- Mark Suster-Honest Advice on Starting a Company
Week ending Jan 3rd 2016
- Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice
- The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention
- 7 Steps to Getting to Cash-Flow Positive Faster (in SaaS)
- Why scale?
- Why We Unsubscribed 250K People From HubSpot's Marketing Blog & Started Sending Less Email
- The Open Startup
- The cloud wars explained: Why nobody can catch up with Amazon
- Technology and the Future of Work
- The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula
- The Importance Of Payback Period For SaaS Startups
by Sebastien Mirolo on Fri, 1 Jan 2016
