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7+ Tips On How To Build Your First Sales Team. When You Have Zero Experience Building One.
Oct 31, 2026
Dear SaaStr: How do you structure a sales team ... when you’ve got zero experience doing sales? Well, first go get some experience with sales. 🙂 At least, close the first 10 customers yourself. If you don’t, you’ll never have any idea how to do it. And the odds your...
The B2B Category the Markets “Hate” the Most Today: GTM
Oct 30, 2026
Salesforce agreed the other day to buy Braze for $5.66 billion, 6.8x trailing revenue. In most of B2B that price would be unremarkable. In go-to-market software it's a 58% premium, because Braze traded at 3.7x on Monday. I pulled the multiples for the public GTM and...
Annual Contracts: Maybe Not All They Are Cracked Up To Be
Oct 30, 2026
Annual contracts seem so great. VCs love them, and they do seem to reduce churn. Seem to. In fact, when CROs struggle to hit a plan, they often want to push customers onto annual contracts. That and pricing increases are classic go-to moves. I've long been a vocal...
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7+ Tips On How To Build Your First Sales Team. When You Have Zero Experience Building One.
By Jason Lemkin | October 31, 2026
Dear SaaStr: How do you structure a sales team … when you’ve got zero experience doing sales? Well, first go get some experience with sales. 🙂 At least, close the first 10 customers yourself. If you don’t, you’ll never have any idea how to do it. And the odds your first rep succeeds goes way,…
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The B2B Category the Markets “Hate” the Most Today: GTM
By Jason Lemkin | October 30, 2026
Salesforce agreed the other day to buy Braze for $5.66 billion, 6.8x trailing revenue. In most of B2B that price would be unremarkable. In go-to-market software it’s a 58% premium, because Braze traded at 3.7x on Monday. I pulled the multiples for the public GTM and front-office apps and compared them with infrastructure and security….
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Blog Posts, Featured Posts, Growth, Sales
Annual Contracts: Maybe Not All They Are Cracked Up To Be
By Jason Lemkin | October 30, 2026
Annual contracts seem so great. VCs love them, and they do seem to reduce churn. Seem to. In fact, when CROs struggle to hit a plan, they often want to push customers onto annual contracts. That and pricing increases are classic go-to moves. I’ve long been a vocal proponent of annual contracts. I felt like…
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7+ Tips On How To Build Your First Sales Team. When You Have Zero Experience Building One.
Oct 31, 2026
Dear SaaStr: How do you structure a sales team ... when you’ve got zero experience doing sales? Well, first go get some experience with sales. 🙂 At least, close the first 10 customers yourself. If you don’t, you’ll never have any idea how to do it. And the odds your...
Schmoozing Is Dead, Agents Are Hitting 120% of Humans, and Growth Is the Only Thing That Matters: 10 Things From the Closing Q&A at SaaStr AI Annual 2026
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We just wrapped SaaStr AI Annual 2026, and the closing Q&A on Day 3 ended up being one of the most engaged of the whole gathering. No script, no prepared deck, just an hour-and-a-half of questions from the audience on the topics most on their mind....
Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales?
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Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales? The hardest rejection I’ve had in sales was around renewals. Especially ones I thought we really had earned. But still lost. In particular, in the early days of EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we had a...
Dear SaaStr: What Is the Playbook for a Successful Customer Success Team?
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AI at Scale: 8 Learnings from monday.com Co-Founder and Co-Ceo Eran Zinman
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The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin did a vibe check into the state of SaaS, AI, venture funding, and the rollercoaster of building a business in 2025.


