SaaStr Podcast #080: Peter Reinhardt, Founder @ Segment Discusses Why the Reality Distortion Field Damages Product-Market Fit
Welcome to Episode 80! Peter Reinhardt is the Founder and CEO of Segment, the startup that allows you to collect all of your customer data and send it anywhere, and they count some of the biggest and best companies in the world as customers, including the likes of...
Why can’t micro VC venture capital funds raise money like startups?
There is a tiny bit of this. Folks like Alex Bangash’s Trusted Insight (an LP and anchor in my fund) have platforms that, for the very best LPs and managers, enable some of this: And to be clear — you can use AngelList, if you have a big following, to basically...
Our Book, From Impossible to Inevitable, Crossed 15,000 Copies Sold
We got word yesterday from Wiley that our book, From Impossible to Inevitable, crossed 15,000 total real, actual sales, with 1,000 of them in November alone. It was a learning to me most people actually still prefer to buy hardcopy versions of business books.  This...
Closing Your First Fortune 500 Customer
By: Bob Marsh, CEO & Founder, LevelEleven Winning the first big customer is a pivotal moment for any company. It provides validation that the company has created something meaningful, demonstrates to both employees and the market that you’re capable of getting it...
SaaStr Podcast #079: Seth Besmertnik, Founder and CEO @ Conductor On Where to Start With a B2B SaaS Content Roadmap
Welcome to Episode 79! Seth Besmertnik is the Co-Founder & CEO of Conductor, the company that boasts the biggest customer list in their category including more than 500 Fortune and Internet Retailer 500 brands like Under Armour, Citi, and FedEx with their web...
Last Chance to Apply to Work Out of the CoSellingSpace for January
It’s been a great first 2 weeks at the SaaStr CoSelling Space. Â Our first great group of companies has moved in or is in the process — Mural.co, Birdly, Allbound, Trusted Insight, Codacy, Teamable, Roundteam, Lead Crunch, Visiblee, GenyMobile, and more to...
Can you name some large, traditional companies that are investing in startups in order to innovate their core business?
All of them all. All Big Companies one way or another are investing in innovation, and at least willing to take a risk buying a product from a raw, young start-up. What’s hard to see on the outside is where they are investing. Big Companies are always investing in...
What is the current market (late 2016/early 2017) for tech startup seed rounds?
(Almost) as strong as ever, no matter what you read in the press. Why? Simple. There are more seed funds than ever, both in terms of brand new funds, and established seed and other venture firms raising their next fund. This is one of the best environments in years in...
SaaStr Podcast #078: Kathryn Minshew, Founder and CEO @ The Muse Shares Why You Have to Make Customers Uncomfortable in the Early Days
Welcome to Episode 78! Kathryn Minshew is the Founder & CEO of The Muse, named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media and Inc.’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech. Before founding The Muse, Kathryn worked on vaccines in Rwanda and Malawi with the Clinton Health Access Initiative...
Sean Ellis, Founder & CEO of GrowthHackers: Building a Company Wide Growth Culture (Video + Transcript)
Everybody wants to propel their business to gargantuan levels of success, but instilling a strong culture of growth that motivates each person in the company requires very deliberate action and a comprehensive strategy. In this session Sean Ellis, Founder and CEO of...
Our Own Harry Stebbings Joins Atomico!
Harry Stebbings, who has done a jaw-droppingly good job of entirely running, scaling and building the SaaStr Podcast — in addition to the #1 listened to VC podcast, Twenty Minute VC on TechCrunch — has joined Atomico, one of the largest VC firms in the...
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