Author: Jason Lemkin

There’s now a whole group of companies I’ve invested in, and/or been an advisor/board member or other close ...

If you haven’t noticed, there’s a brand new Search section on SaaStr.com right below the header: This new se...

Dreamforce is coming up, and look for a post soon on where and how you can find SaaStr at Dreamforce. In the meantime, S...

Recently, I met with a great SaaS founder doing about $1.5m in ARR.  She was telling me about her VP of Marketing who, ...

Great news! We’ve been working on this for some time, and finally, we’ve closed on an amazing new “co-...

A while back, we wrote a post on SaaStr that made a lot of folks a little angry: “Workday is growing 90% this Year...

The biggest two mistakes I made as a founder-CEO, I not only made once. I made them again twice, maybe thrice. They were...

We’re expanding at SaaStr! Right now we have 3 open, and very important, jobs: Sales / Business Lead!  We have a ...

Hooray!  We’ve launched the new SaaStr Annual ’17 website here. While it’s a ways off, we already hav...

Analyzing the Big Successes in an industry is important, and critical.  But they are lenses into the past as well.   O...

At the recent SaaStr Summer Social in L.A., we were not only hosted by Cornerstone OnDemand (THANK YOU!) but Adam Miller...

The other day, we celebrated the 4 year anniversary of our first SaaStr blog post (Everybody Lies) with an update —...

Four years ago, we formally kicked off the SaaStr blog with our very first blog post, “Everybody Lies”.  It...

There’s a fun — and very lucrative and rewarding — exercise I like to go through with most of the star...

So many folks I meet want to start a start-up.  They have an idea they are passionate about.  They’ve worked und...

Ok we’ve released the final 20 tickets to the L.A. Summer Social, this Wednesday, from 4-8pm at Cornerstone OnDem...

We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success.  How to hire a...

The lure of freemium (like The Force) is strong.   No headaches.  Customers try and buy all on their own.  Like magic...

Great news! Adam Miller, CEO and co-founder of Cornerstone OnDemand, has not only agreed to host the L.A. Summer Social ...

Bootstrapping in SaaS it isn’t that hard, per se.  It happens all the time. Companies like Atlassian and Qualtrics ha...

We’ve got two great events coming up this week. First, if you are in the Bay Area, Entelo is hosting a meet-up thi...

In my first start-up, I was mostly hunting whales — seven figure and eight figure deals. I had no experience doing any...

Part of my job when I invest in a start-up is to get folks excited about the company.  It’s not that hard.  Beca...

It’s time. For a deep dive on all things MRR, ARR, L4M, CLTV, NPS, CSAT, and more. At the Beach!! Or at least clos...

Every customer you close, the next day, is at risk of churn.  A month-to-month customer can basically cancel anytime. Â...

For me at least, I’ve seen three things make the biggest difference in reducing stress as you scale from $1m to $1...

For 90% of us, one of the toughest adjustment to being CEOs of SaaS companies is having to constantly recruit. Once you ...

For the first time in my career, I’ve worked with amazing first-time managers as CEOs.  Before I was a CEO, I was...

While age ultimately doesn’t matter — results do — in SaaS, starting off as younger-than-average can c...

So, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $25.6 billion dollars.  That headline shocked all of us the other day.  But if you s...

Worried about a bunch of VCs replacing you?  You should be a little worried, probably. Just the other day, a CEO that I...

Never Quit If … 1.  Never Quit If … You Have 10 Unaffiliated Paying Customers. And Aren’t Completely ...

Continuous deployment is pushing deployment cycles faster than ever, but QA teams often lack the efficiency and focus to...

Ok, we’ve crossed 25,000,000 views on Quora!  Thank you to everyone for being a partner to this community!  Tha...

I consider myself a “Magna Cum Laude Minus” founder.  Nothing I’ve done has ever failed (although I&#...

If you already have a few bigger deals under your belt, but most are smaller … a few higher-level suggestions: Hire a ...

It’s always your job to inspire the team.  But, even more so once the team grows just large enough (20+?) that yo...

There’s an endless and lively debate about the advantage of being in the SF Bay Area in SaaS. I’ve done 22 i...

We had a great discussion at Salesforce Live with some of the very, very best in the industry on marketing and selling S...

Recently we did a great AMA-style “Quora Session”.  You can see the whole list of questions and answers her...