Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Aileen Lee, Erika Schultz, HubSpot’s CoFounders and more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of October 9th, 2022.
The Confusing and Confounding Advice on Capital Efficiency
SCOOP: TikTok parent ByteDance's operating losses more than tripled last year to over $7 billion as it pushed for growth. Check out the company's full-year 2021 and Q1 2022 finances https://t.co/XneCChBjYm tip @Techmeme — Sal Rodriguez ???? (@sal19)...VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee (Pod 597 + Video)
The number of global venture capital (VC) investments dipped in 2022, thanks to ongoing geopolitical tensions, turbulence in global capital markets, supply chain issues, and increasing interest rates. This has caused VC investors to be increasingly wary. With no end...
Great Support Really Can Make Up For a Lot of Things
So I saw this tweet, and even a decade after our acquisition by Adobe, it sort of hurt: Currently evaluating #DocuSign vs #AdobeSign for clients. Started with DocuSign, finding a few things not that intuitive, but just had an amazing support chat experience....
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SaaStr Europa 2023 is a GO for London on June 6-7!!
After our biggest, best SaaStr Europa ever this past June in Barcelona, we’re going even bigger with room for 4,000 SaaS and Cloud founders, execs, and VCs at SaaStr Europa 2022 in London! 6-7 June at Tobacco Dock. We’ll be back, bigger and better, with...
5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $1.7 Billion in ARR
So there are so many interesting things everyone selling to SMBs can learn from HubSpot. We were able to dive into this a bit when co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah joined us at 2022 SaaStr Annual. That A+ session here: We did run out of time to talk...Key Strategies for Scaling Revenue Today with Confluent President of Field Operations Erica Schultz (Pod + Video)
In a volatile economic climate and market, founders must employ smart growth strategies while focusing on efficiency. For early-stage companies, the onus is to show investors a sustainable and solid path to profitability focused on topline and efficiency. Confluent’s...
5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO
A ways back, Forbes was kind enough to pick up a thread I did about my 5 favorite good days, and 5 most visceral bad days, in the early days, of getting from $0 to $10m in ARR. Let me expand on it here since the original answer. Maybe it will be cathartic for you. ...Lessons from Salesforce to Celonis: Tips to Scale Globally with Celonis COO Arsenio Otero (Video)
All companies depend on growth, and growth has to come from somewhere. How do companies that rely on hypergrowth—expanding as much as 100% yearly—achieve this kind of success? Celonis’ COO, Arsenio Otero, discusses this as a three-stage process with actionable steps....
Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most SaaS Startups Fail?
Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most SaaS Startups Fail? I’d like to suggest that web start-ups founded by quality teams often fail due to time. I know those hot start-ups seem to be lapping you,Growing faster,Raising bigger rounds You should worry But here’s the thing...Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Y Combinator, Mark Roberge, State of the Cloud 2022 and lots more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of October 2nd, 2022.
10 Tips to Start Selling to Big Companies as a Tiny Startup
Dear SaaStr:  Why would any big business take a risk on a start-up? They wouldn’t. Unless, the gain way outweighs the risk. And yet … they do all the time. If you have a product that (x) uniquely, or in an importantly superior, fashion (y) solves a real, large...
