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I'm a freelance finance & strategy person looking for new projects to join. I typically work on VC transactions or M&As, but also strategy and analytics work like marketing spend optimization, user behavior / engagement / retention analysis, SAAS metrics and revenue management, evaluating expansion into to new markets / products, corporate roadmaps, etc. Let's chat VC, exit, cash flow management, or whatever's on your mind!
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How do you actually get AWS credits?
Hey folks,
I m building SaaS product on a ramen budget. The painful surprise? My burn on must have SaaS and Cloud is eclipsing what I can put into marketing and product.
I keep hearing legends about founders stacking thousands in AWS credits or discounts. But every blog post feels dated or locked behind an accelerator gate.
If you ve personally snagged legit credits (not referral spam), could you share:
SaaS founders - how do you handle cancellations?
I'm currently building a tiny tool to reduce churn for SaaS products using Stripe, something super simple:
But before I go too far, I m genuinely curious...
How do YOU handle cancellations right now?
Do you ask why they leave to improve your product?
Do you offer a discount? A pause?
Or just let them go?
Founders in stealth / pre-launch - why? (+ dinner in SF!)
It used to be fashionable to be "in stealth," but then our collective wisdom shifted to "launch early and launch often." In my experience, there are two good reasons for this:
The first reason is that it's often more important to figure out whether people want what you're building than it is to figure out whether you can build the best possible version of it. Launching early gives you the opportunity to either pivot or iterate quickly. Launching is learning.