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Blog PostsTop 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week! With Microsoft, Founders Fund, Box, Talkdesk, Pendo and More!!
What were all of you watching on YouTube this week … that we didn’t also watch last week? Let’s take a look at the Top 10 Newer Videos This Week!…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, LeadershipYour #1 Management Hack: Weekly 1-on-1s
Folks DO YOUR 1-ON-1s i know they arent always fun pic.twitter.com/Sb1BWxsWj3 — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) July 10, 2020 When I catch up with founders on the march from…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&ASome Great Examples Of “If At First You Don’t Succeed”
Q: What are some great examples of “at first if you don’t succeed”? A few: Twitter started off as Odeo for podcasting which failed and most of the investors took their…
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Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, SalesSaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin
Ep. 351: Chris O’Neill (Google, Evernote) shares his lessons from previous downturns and how to chart a new course for growth in today’s changing market. This episode is sponsored by…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, ProductThe 1 Simple Test to Know if You’ve Hired a Real VP of Product or Customer Success … Or Not
I remember the first time I had a “head of product” in SaaS. I’d known him for many years, and knew he was great … but didn’t really know what…
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Diversity & Inclusion, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, PodcastsSaaStr Podcast #350 with Contentstack Founder & CEO Neha Sampat
Ep. 350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. Atypical in our world,…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership, SaaStr Events, VideosSeed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)
What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures Jason Lemkin |…
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Blog Posts, Marketing, Product, Q&A“More Free” Seems To Be Working Well These Days
Q: What is a strategy you have employed as a software company to keep sales up during COVID-19? My favorite strategy looking across my portfolio of investments is not charging…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, GrowthWhen Even Selling for a Few Billion is Not Enough
We’re approaching the age of 1,000+ Unicorns and despite a global pandemic, this remains The Best of TImes in Cloud and startups in general. But there’s a quiet cautionary tale…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsSee Who’s Joining Us at SaaStr Enterprise on July 29
We just crossed the 4,000 mark of confirmed SaaS founders and leaders joining us for SaaStr Enterprise on Wednesday, July 29th, for an action-packed day with speakers from the biggest…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership10 Things I Wish My Board and VCs Had Told Me
They say CEO is a lonely job, and I guess in some ways true, but in many ways it’s quite the opposite. If you do it right as a founder,…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human ResourcesA 4 Point Test To Know If You Are Ready to Hire BigCo Folks
It’s easy to say “only hire people with start-up experience.” It’s also very tempting to hire folks that have worked at the partners, in the ecosystem that you work in,…
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Blog PostsTop 10 Videos of the Week: Logikcull, Flexport, Point9, G2. MongoDB, Gainsight and More!!
As YouTube views continue to grow during Shelter, what are folks watching this week on SaaStr — that they didn’t also watch last week? Let’s talk a look at the…
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Blog Posts, Marketing, MarketingGo On Any Podcast With Reach
During these Shelter+ times SaaStr is focusing more on our digital events and assets … out of our necessity. Our IRL events are in a holding patten, for obvious reasons….
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Company Culture, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Sales, SalesSaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”
Ep. 349: Startups can get messy. Especially in growth. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter. SaaStr’s…
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Q: 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...
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Can an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging his/her reputation? I’m going to say Yes, probably. There is a lot of drama around broken term sheets. Mostly around VCs backing out, not founders. But here’s the thing — term sheet are term sheets....
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Ben Braverman explains how Flexport entered a competitive market with a unique model and continues to grow. Hiring senior leaders can set companies up to fail and see how sticking with a current, successful model can be the key to hypergrowth. Rely on your success,...
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Creating champions requires detailed focus on the journey. Kathy Lord, SVP of Sage People explains how asking hard questions, embracing feedback and making personal connections with your customers can move the sales journey from prospect to champion. Want to see more...
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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
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