We were very excited to have BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital, take the stage and moderate this talk by Auren Hoffman, former CEO and co-founder of LiveRamp. As a serial founder with five successful exits, Auren (who you may already know from his prolific Quora...
I am a complete David Skok fangirl. If you love his blog as much as I do, you are really, really going to love this session. David, a General Partner at Matrix, dives into key SaaS metrics, breaking down how they interrelate to drive the success of a SaaS business...
We talk a lot here on SaaStr about the challenges of building out your sales team and the mistakes we all tend to make along the way. In this session three seasoned VPs of Sales from exemplary SaaS companies discuss what it takes to source and grow a sales team....
These international startups need your help in making their SaaS dreams come true. Companies from all over the world (seriously, five continents!) have submitted their videos for this year’s “Show Us Your SaaS” international startup competition in...
Marketing legend Jeff Yoshimura has been a part of a few epic SaaS brands you mighta heard of… Salesforce, AppExchange, Zuora (where he helped drive the brand around the subscription economy movement), Ayasdi, and now Elastic. In this session led by Emmanuelle...
Tomasz Tunguz, Partner at Redpoint Ventures, chats with Connie Loizos, Silicon Valley Editor at TechCrunch, about benchmarking your SaaS startup when you’re raising Series A funding. In true Tomasz style – thanks to his clear affinity for numbers – he...
In 2016, most companies attending the SaaStr Annual sent 2 or more employees, and those that did are already buying up the 2017 team packs in droves! If the epic learnings from past speakers like Aaron Levie, Dharmesh Shah, Lew Cirne, Byron Deeter, Tomasz Tunguz (or...
As VP of Sales and Marketing at Atlassian for three years before becoming President, Jay Simons has a broad perspective on what it takes to build a successful company. Sometimes, ignoring conventional wisdom is what will differentiate you from the competition....
We know there are SaaStr fans in all corners of the world with more than 32% of 2016 SaaStr Annual attendees came from outside the US (and from 47 countries!). We also know that coming to the SaaStr Annual is an investment. Sure, the hard dollar costs are part of it,...
We were pretty excited to bring together four industry powerhouses to discuss platforms in this amazing session led by the always charming Narinder Singh, co-founder of Appirio. Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh, SVP of Partner Programs at Salesforce, Ilya Fushman, General...
In this chat led by Alison Wagonfeld of Emergence Capital, we tap into the combined wisdom of serial entrepreneurs and formal rivals David Cancel, Founder & CEO of Drift, and Hiten Shah, Co-founder of Quick Sprout, on the rocky journey towards product/market fit....
As much as we all long for the days when the term unicorn only referred to magical, mythical creatures, you don’t want to miss this session from Byron Deeter, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Having invested in over two dozen companies, a half dozen of...
For the 2017 SaaStr Annual we’re going even bigger with 10K attendees, 3+ stages and 250+ speakers. We’ll be segmenting out the content by company stage as well as role and functional area (or that’s the goal, at least!). We’ll make it easy to find the folks with the...
How the hell do you get more leads? It’s a multi-million dollar question. And despite all the fancy new tools marketers have at their disposal to measure and optimize, there is still never one clear-cut answer. Lucky for us one of the very best in the business,...
Founders never sleep. Two years after Lew Cirne sold his first company $375 million, he founded new New Relic. As a second-timer (a popular topic here on SaaStr) Lew shares what he’s doing better, pitfalls he’s avoiding, and how he entered a highly...