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Blog Posts, Sales, SalesWhy The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home.
(Note this is an update / refresh of our classic 2014 post) There are some real mysteries in SaaS. Even now that I understand them, I still see them as…
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Q&AWhy would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company?
Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to understand how early-stage venture capital…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, EarlyThe Average SaaS CEO is About 37.5 Years Young
A few years back, Aileen Lee and Cowboy Ventures put out 2 seminal posts on TechCrunch about Unicorns. The first one defined the Unicorn age in 2013, and the second…
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Blog Posts, Q&AHow Many Employees Does a SaaS Company Have at 100M ARR?
Q: How many employees does a SaaS company have at 100M ARR? It used to be about 500. Now it’s often closer to 1000, with Unicorns raising so much more…
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Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, SalesSaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Oracle, Salesloft, Zoom, and FireEye — December 6, 2019
Ep. 288: Des Cahill is the Chief Marketing Officer for Oracle CX Cloud Suite, an integrated set of marketing, sales, commerce and service solutions that power…
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Blog Posts, Scale5 Interesting Learnings From Slack at $700m+ in ARR
Although most of us aren’t quite approaching $1b in ARR, we can still learn from the leaders. We last checked in on Slack as it was IPO’ing. Now with some…
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Fundraising, Q&AHow VCs Make Decisions So “Quickly”
Q: How did Masayoshi Son trust WeWork at its founder so quickly? He has met Adam Neumann for only 4 minutes and decided to invest $4.4 billion. Pattern-matching. It what…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&AThe First VC I Ever Pitched Gave Me a Term Sheet. And I Blew It.
Q: Could you tell about the very first time you approached investors and how you proceeded in detail? The first time I approached investors it went well — until I…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosA Founder’s Guide to Getting More Leads – ASAP (Video + Transcript)
Jason Green, Emergence Capital Founder, and General Partner moderates a discussion with Janine Pelosi, Zoom Head of Marketing and Online Business and Tolithia Kornweibel, Gusto Head of Marketing. Want to…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsHere are all the Mentoring Opportunities at SaaStr Annual 2020
We have several different mentoring opportunities at SaaStr Annual 2020 this year and at our events year round, but whether this is your first event or a superfan, here’s a…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Hiring, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, SalesSaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Mapistry and Slack — November 29, 2019
Ep. 286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple. As for Allie, prior to founding Mapistry she…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosFrom Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)
How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosThe Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)
Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35B in August of 2018. The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp…
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Blog Posts, Growth, MetricsTriple-Double-Double is Good. 10-100-110 is Enough.
Neeraj Agarwal of Battery Ventures a few years back simplified a lot of the journies top SaaS companies go on to TripleTripleDoubleDoubleDouble, T2D3. That the top SaaS companies triple in…
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Blog Posts, Featured Posts20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual
Phew. With Dreamforce and SaaStr Europa and Scale behind us, little tiny Team SaaStr is 100% focused on 2020 SaaStr Annual. It will be in March this year for just…
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15+ Due Diligence Questions You Really Should Be Asking Every VC You Meet
Q: What is the proper way to do due diligence on a VC firm? Here are the things IMHO and IME that are most important. First, if you want to do it right, you should diligence both (1) the firm and (2) the individual partner leading the deal. Importantly, these days,...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with SocialChorus, Trello, Gremlin, Terminal, Guild Education, Gitlab, and Pleo — November 15, 2019
Ep. 282: Michael Pryor, Co-Founder & CEO @ Trello, now Head of Trello Product with Atlassian following their recent acquisition. Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds...
The Average SaaS Unicorn Raises $370,000,000. And Bootstrapping is Rare.
We were recently asked: Q: Are there any examples of a unicorn startup that was bootstrapped? Of course the answer is yes. But I didn't have a sense of how many, and how the data might look. So I fired up the 2019 Forbes Cloud 100, which isn't all private unicorns by...
Why SMB Reps Struggle in the Enterprise. And Vice-Versa.
Q: How is low/mid-ticket sales different from enterprise sales? They are very, very different. If I had to boil down how to filter potential sales professionals based on just 1 controlling criterion, it would be deal size. Enterprise sales: Reps often hunt many of...
What is the hardest rejection you’ve ever had in sales?
What is the hardest rejection you've 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 particular manager...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zoom and Menlo Ventures — September 20, 2019
Ep. 266: Janine Pelosi is the CMO @ Zoom, the next-generation enterprise phone system. Prior to their very successful IPO, Zoom raised funding from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures and...
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