Weekly Reading List
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sun, 1 Jan 2017
Short list updated weekly of articles and papers we read and found
worth mentioning.
Week ending Dec 17th 2017
- Which metrics should your team track?
- The Tension at the Heart of a Freemium Business
- Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts
- The Cost Of JavaScript
Week ending Nov 5th 2017
- The Math Behind the Long, Slow Ramp of Death
- Is It Time To Stack Up The Benjamins?
- Important Changes In Revenue And Profitability Definitions For SaaS Companies
Week ending Oct 29th 2017
- Bootstrap 4: Everything You Need to Know
- Toxic VC and the marginal-dollar problem
- Why You Shouldn't A/B Test Your Prices
Week ending Oct 22nd 2017
Week ending Oct 8th 2017
- Our SMB Software Market Thesis
- While software nibbles, services are eating the healthcare world
- Color Scheme from stunning websites
- When life changing money, isn’t...
Week ending Oct 8th 2017
- Don’t Do These 68 Things in Your SaaS Company
- What I Learned Analyzing 13 Years of Basecamp Home Pages
- BRAFTON 2017 Content Marketing Benchmark Report
- Call-to-Action buttons – the ultimate guide for high-converting CTAs
- 50 Things You [Probably] Forgot To Design
Week ending Sep 25th 2017
Week ending Sep 17th 2017
Week ending Aug 20th 2017
Week ending Aug 6th 2017
- SaaS landing pages in 2017: Our analysis of 100+ top businesses
- My Bootstrapped Stack - Steve Messer
- What's not Actionable & Business Critical Shouldn't Ring: Building the Right Alerting System
- How to prevent fraud from brute force online coupon and gift card attacks
Week ending Jul 23rd 2017
Week ending Jul 16th 2017
- The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be
- Top Customer Support Workflows of Product-Focused Companies
- Flexbooker Onboarding SaaS Analysis
- How to Experiment with SaaS Pricing Strategies - Teardowns of Shopify, Zendesk, and StatusPage
- Grow Sales - Weekly Sales Dashboard
- Where Have All the IPOs Gone?
Week ending Jun 25th 2017
- How to Bootstrap Your SaaS Company to $1M ARR Before Raising Venture Capital
- You’re Sitting on a Gold Mine of Data — Here’s What You Should Do With It
Week ending Apr 30th 2017
Week ending Apr 2nd 2017
- The Coming Polarization of the SMB Software Market
- 30-day trial? 14-day? Freemium? Here’s why it probably doesn’t matter
- Are your future customers using another product?
- My Competitor Raised $50 Million - Great!
- If Scale Isn’t The Goal, Then What Is?
- SaaS landing pages in 2017: Our analysis of 100+ top businesses
Week ending Mar 25th 2017
- Tyler King explains how he's grown revenue to $120,000/mo by focusing on product quality, prioritizing customer support, and being patient where others might rush.
- Research and Lead Generation
- Marketing to Developers - Notes from Heavybit panel
Week ending Mar 19th 2017
Week ending Mar 5th 2017
- A Look into Navigation in Web Design
- How my friends and I grew our side project into a $17,000/month business
- What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product?
- The Best Way to Fund Your Business
Week ending Feb 26th 2017
- SaaS Pricing Teardown: Ecommerce Platforms
- Can Bootstrapped Startups Succeed In A VC-Financed World?
- Technology Opens the Door for Entrepreneurs to Achieve the Triple Bottom Line
- No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge
- Devising a Profit Sharing Program for Micro-Multinationals
Week ending Feb 5th 2017
- The world needs a better spreadsheet
- Data shows SaaS discounting lowers SaaS LTV by over 30%
- Three Mathematical Models for Building a More Valuable Company
- Four fundamentals of workplace automation
Week ending Jan 9th 2017
- If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why do we need Sales?
- Optimization for SaaS: Works for Business and DevOps
- SaaS Startup One-Slide Financials Dashboard
- The No-BS Approach to Building Your SaaS Startup’s Launch List (Part 2 of the Epic Guide to Bootstrapping)
- The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch — By Yourself (Part 1)
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sun, 1 Jan 2017
