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 | Founder @ SaaStr Jason Lemkin: … founders what, how things really work, what...
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 customers that right now are struggling. We did a deep dive on how this turbocharged...
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 to just think about. The two latest $1b+ acquisitions weren’t quite as...
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 Cloud / SaaS companies on the planet. If you have not yet checked out the...
They say CEO is a lonely job, and I guess in some ways that’s true, but in many ways it’s quite the opposite. If you do it right as a founder, there’s nothing more rewarding than getting to work on Monday. Checking in with the team. Being on a...
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 Top 10 for this week to catch up on over the holiday weekend! #1: “Lessons from...
During these Shelter+ times SaaStr is focusing more on our digital events and assets … out of necessity. Our IRL events are in a holding patten, for obvious reasons. During this time I’ve re-learned a lot of things. Perhaps the #1 thing is people...
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 Founder’s Favorites Series features one of SaaStr’s best of the...
Ep. 348: Kurt Muehmel is the Chief Customer Officer @ Dataiku, the platform democratizing access to data and enabling enterprises to build their own path to AI in a human-centric way. To date, the company has raised over $146M in funding from some of the best in the...
Q: What impact will the effects of covid have on the SaaS industry? Many of us in SaaS are really struggling now. Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries are in deep trouble. But on balance, Covid-19 is dramatically accelerating SaaS: During...
An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Sam Blond | CSO @ Brex Kristen Habacht | VPS @ Atlassian Jason Lemkin: I’ll give folks just a minute to come back....
Ep. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Lee coined the often-used Silicon Valley term unicorn in a TechCrunch article “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar...
As it looks like Shelter may last even longer, our YouTube videos continue to grow much faster than before. So what are SaaStr folks watching most this week (not including top videos also watched last week)? Let’s take a look! #1: Q+A With Jason Lemkin + CMO of...
Q: How much equity do you give up in Series A? 20%-25% Of course, this isn’t always the case. And there are Series A investments of all different shapes and sizes these days. But here’s what you can assume: Most larger VC firms ($250m-$2b fund size) want to own 20% of...
Q: What are the lessons you learned from building an MVP for a startup? I worry about the term “MVP” in SaaS. The only thing I think that matters is an “MSP” — a Minimum Sellable Product. A product that gets at least 10 paying customers. Here’s what often happens with...
