Blog Posts, Growth, Product
The other day I was at a demo day and talked to a bunch of smart, young founders. A bunch of them were building products in categories I knew well, and I was very interested in what their new take was on existing categories. I asked them why they would win. They often gave somewhat…
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Scale
In a recent webinar hosted by Oracle, Reggie Bradford, 3x Entrepreneur and Senior Vice President, Startup Ecosystem & Accelerator at Oracle, chats with SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin about how to maintain the enthusiasm and pace of a startup when you aren’t a startup anymore. Here’s a hint: it takes more than bean bag chairs and free food. You have…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr Events
We’re one week closer to SaaStr Scale! A few things to share with you this week about Scale on the 29th. . . BOOK A BRAINDATE WITH THE MENTOR OF YOUR DREAMS Since we launched Braindates at Scale last week, the list of mentors prepared to have 1:1, 1:4 (small group), and 1:8 (super braindate micro sessions)…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
Much of SaaStr involves sharing my learnings, mistakes, improvements, etc. as a founder CEO that lived the journey from $0 to $100m in ARR. But do I practice what I preach? I hope so. Let’s take a look together. Recently, I was fortunate enough to invest what I believe is an outstanding SaaS company and service,…
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Customer Success, Other, Podcasts, Product
SaaStr 411: Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua on Effective Product Design, Customer Development Processes, and Evolving Management Philosophies
5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics
IPOs seem like a dime-a-dozen these days in B2B/SaaS/B2D, but Elastic was one I wanted to learn a bit more about. Many of you likely use Elastic and/or Algolia to power search on your sites and applications. A few interesting learnings for me at least: TAM is What You Make It. Elastic says its initial…
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Blog Posts, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: At What Stage Should a Startup Hire a CMO? Roughly, when Demand Gen is no longer the core function of marketing. This also often is the time when you are ready to expand beyond a core small, effective, efficient marketing team: When you have enough of a lead generation engine going, AND enough…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, International Expansion, Leadership, SaaS Product Pricing, Videos
As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. At the very first SaaStr Annual in…
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