Tech Debt, Monthly Vs. Annual Billing and Customer-Led Growth
Before we dive in, here are a couple of quick updates that you may have missed.
We just wrapped up the one-day MicroConf Local event in London yesterday. It took place at Stripe HQ. Here is a photo from this SaaS fireside talk with Wilhelm Klopp.
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Here's what we're covering this week:
Tech Debt
Customer-led growth
Monthly vs. annual billing
📺 Featured on the MicroConf Youtube Channel
7 Ways to Get Ahead of Technical Debt & Keep It Under Control
Managing technical debt is an essential skill if you want to have successful software and SaaS projects! Technical debt is a term used in software engineering to describe the negative consequences that result from taking shortcuts during the development process. You may compromise quality to meet tight deadlines, reduce costs, or simply due to lack of experience or knowledge - but technical debt can accumulate over time, resulting in poor code quality, increased maintenance costs, and reduced productivity. This video will help you better understand technical debt and how to manage it so you don't run into difficult situations in the future, like not being able to implement new features or fix existing issues in the software.
🎙 New On Startups For The Rest Of Us
In episode 660, join Rob Walling for another solo listening adventure where he talks about the tradeoffs of hiring a team vs. contractors, when to raise funding as a bootstrapper, and the importance of knowing what you are bad at.
👉 Listen here
🚀 3 SaaS Resources To Check Out From Around The Web
It is frustrating to spend time and money getting visitors to your site only to have them drop off. Read this post for 7 ways to uncover the most common drop-off points and reasons.
Speaking of site traffic, you don’t need to double your traffic to double your impact.
Monthly vs. annual billing: Here is a great article to understand the pros and cons.
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