How Venture Capital Has Changed Since Covid-19
Q: How is Venture Capital difference since Covid-19? At first — and only briefly — things slowed way back. Portfolios in many cases were hit hard, with startups in travel, events, fitness, etc. hit hard, and VCs distracted with working out the issues in their...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin
Ep. 362:Â The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. This dynamic trio...
It’s Hard to Become a Venture Capitalist. But What’s Really Hard is Becoming a Great One.
It's far harder to make money as a VC than you might think You just have to invest in so many big winners Here's the math … and why they act the way they do: pic.twitter.com/PFvTBAwxir — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) May 19, 2023 Dear SaaStr:...
Mark Your Calendars – Important Dates to Know for SaaStr Annual at Home
We’re just a few weeks away from SaaStr Annual 2020 at Home on September 2-3. Our incredible line-up includes CEO of Mailchimp CEO of $20b ZoomInfo CEO of Stackoverflow CEO of YCombinator COO of Github CPO of Zendesk CPO of Asana CMO of Twilio CMO of Snowflake...
SaaStr Podcast #361 with ServiceNow Chief Customer and Partner Officer Lara Caimi
Ep. 361: Lara Caimi is the Chief Customer and Partner Officer @ ServiceNow, the company that allows you the power to make work, work better. Prior to their IPO, ServiceNow raised funding from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia Capital and Greylock. As...
The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)
David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. The Cadence: Transforming Your SaaS Startup from Chaos to Military Precision 4 Unexpected Learnings from the...
Aaron Levie: “CIOs are Only Buying 3 Types of Software: Collaboration, Security … and Cost Savings”
At the recent SaaStr:Enterprise event, almost 100,000 of you across all social media tuned into to hear 20+ enterprise Cloud leaders sharing what they’re hearing, seeing … and doing differently. To me, perhaps the most interesting discussion was the one I...
Meet a VC (Virtually) During Annual at Home
While Team SaaStr was ready to put on the most-epic, in-person SaaStr Annual this year, 2020 might’ve had other plans for all of us in mind. But’s that OK — because we’ll be back in person next year, and we haven’t missed a moment. We...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin
Ep. 359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. From strategies in...
SaaStr Podcast #358 with Tipalti Founder & CEO Chen Amit
Ep. 358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike...
Behind the Round with SaaStr: Qualified.com Raises $12m Series A
Tom Taulli Qualified.com, which operates a conversational marketing platform, has raised a $12 million Series A round (the total funding is $17 million since inception). The lead on the deal is Norwest Venture Partners and the other investors include Salesforce...
2021 Planning and Global Economic Collapse
OK, so this I think the first negative, or at least “bummer” post, I think I’ve ever written on SaaStr in 8 years. We’ve been through ups and downs in SaaS since 2012 (the start of SaaStr), flash crashes, multiple contractions, as well as the...
Changing the Way We Work with Founding Partner Lan Xuezhao at Basis Set Ventures (Video + Transcript)
Lan Xuezhao is the Founding Partner at Basis Set Ventures. Today she discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined Lan Xuezhao | Founding Partner @ Basis Set...
SaaStr Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”
Ep. 357: Therese Tucker breaks through the dogma behind what it takes to build a successful tech company. With stories based on the founding of BlackLine — to the company’s successful IPO – you’ll learn the most common myths behind success and why they may be holding...
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