What Does It Take To Be “Venture-Fundable”?
What is the minimum projected annual revenue in the exit year and projected exit valuation for a startup to be investable from a VC? For most “traditional” U.S. VCs doing early-stage investment, the goal is simple: At least 1 investment out of every 20 or so per fund...
Why You Might Not Actually Enjoy Being a VC
Why would you not work in a VC fund? There may be times, maybe even many times, in the earlier days when you look at VCs and Venture Capital and think — that’s the easy way. They drop into a few board meetings, and take 10%, 15%, 20% or more of the...
SaaStr Podcast #400 with Splash CEO Ben Hindman and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin: “The Future of Digital Events”
In today’s SaaStr Insider episode SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin catches up with Ben Hindman, Co-Founder & CEO at Splash to talk about the future of digital events.
We are 14 days away from SaaStr Scale – meet our sponsors!
It is the last SaaStr event of 2020 and it sure has been a wild ride. Thanks to our partners and sponsors we have been able to take our events digitally – bringing together SaaS industry experts from across the world. Check out the low down on our sponsors for SaaStr Scale who are helping to make this event happen.
What To Look For — And Look Out For — In a Co-Founder
Dear SaaStr: When interviewing a co-founder, what are some of the things you look for/look out for? Don't pick a cofounder that – has something better to do– wants to see how it goes– has a clear backup plan– sees it as risky– argues...
SaaStr Podcast #399: Four Steps to Scaling to $250M from Stack Overflow
As digital business and collaboration models have been permanently accelerated by the events of 2020, our panel of SaaS experts discuss who’s buying in the Enterprise, and how to drive conversions across multiple business functions.
What’s a Good Net Retention Rate in SaaS?
At least 100% net negative churn (i.e., upsell/account growth + renewals – churn) for very small businesses. 130%+ in the enterprise, and for top B2D products. Let’s look at some of the top public SaaS companies: Squarespace — self-service, < 1% enterprise:...
SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez
SaaStr Podcast #398 with Rob Gonzalez, Founder & CMO @ Salsify: How To Price To Maximise For Upsell and Expansion, Why and When To Engage with Partner Programs & How To Correctly Segment Customer Profiles Most Efficiently
It’s Hard to Make Money in SaaS At Much Less Than $10 / Month Per User
What product would one million people be willing to pay $1 for monthly? It’s an interesting question and challenge — and one very few SaaS companies have taken up. Dropbox has marched up from $5 to $10 for their basic paid plans over the years, as has Box mostly: Yes,...
5 Interesting Learnings From Shopify. At $3+ Billion in ARR.
Shopify has grown so quickly, it’s tough to even comprehend. From A $1.6B run rate a year ago to $3.2B today. Wow. Zoom is the most obvious “Covid Beneficiary”, but Shopify, in many ways, isn’t far behind: Ok, the issues marching to $4b in...
The most common mistake SaaS companies make on sales tax collection and filings
Wondering how your SaaS business got slapped with a multi-million dollar sales tax bill from one or multiple states? Probably because you, like so many other SaaS companies out there, didn’t even know you had to collect and remit sales tax.
Session Registration is OPEN for SaaStr Scale!! Pick Your Sessions With Okta, Twilio, Google Cloud and More Before They Are Full!
Session registration is now OPEN for SaaStrScale.com on Dec 8-9, where the top CEOs, CROs, CMOs, CCOs, CPOs and more will teach you how to scale!! The keynote sessions have no size limit, but the 100+ workshops and smaller sessions are capped around 200 attendees each...
50,000,000 Answer Views on Quora. The 20 Most Popular Answers.
So we’ve crossed about 67,000,000 total views on Quora and almost 400,000 followers to our Cloud Daily! there, but our classic Answers on Quora still perform well. We finally crossed 50,000,000 total views of our Answers. So what are the most popular Answers of...
SaaStr Podcast #395 with UserTesting CEO Andy MacMillan
SaaStr 395: Why Seat Based pricing Will Die and Volume Based Pricing Is Optimal, How To Structure Pipeline Meetings Most Effectively & How To Think Through Demand Gen Strategically with UserTesting CEO Andy MacMillan
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