Blog Posts, Growth
So it’s the season where there are … some tough board meetings. Plans are missed, which is tough enough. Worse, cash sometimes gets tight. Look, this stuff is stressful. Very…
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Blog Posts
So I don’t really know as much about digital marketing as I should, and as you might think, but every time I look at our Google Analytics, I learn a…
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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Q&A
Q: What’s the best way to develop inbound leads when creating a new market/product category? The answer is you do All of It. Just more of it. Category creation is…
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Blog Posts, Early
So this is just a personal post, not as an investor or blogger or community runner, but as an SMB owner. Running “SaaStr Inc.” as an SMB. My 2 Favorite…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: How stressful is it to run a venture-backed startup? Being a CEO, in general, is pretty stressful. 🙂 Being venture-backed is really only more stressful than any other company…
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So with so much change and tumult, how can we get a handle on how SaaS startups are really doing? Hiring is a great proxy. It cuts through the baloney,…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics
So one thing that’s back now is customers asking for longer payment terms. Not all of them, and not in every industry. And if your customers pay on credit card,…
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Blog Posts, Early, Exit, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: How Many Deals a Year Do VCs at Bigger VC Funds Do a Year? Not as many as you’d think. This is a really important question because it…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr Events
Next year will be by far our biggest and best ever for IRL SaaStr events. Early Bird tickets for all of them are on sale now at incredibly cheap prices…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics
The 3 plans you need to make as a founder: The C10 Plan, The C60 Plan, and the C90 Plan: pic.twitter.com/JSPcjbfzpt — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 4,…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
So there’s a lot of angst in VC today. And a lot of it is around bridge rounds. What’s a bridge round? It’s extra money solely from the existing investors. …
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Blog Posts, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: Did it Ever Take You a Year Or More to Close a Sale? Absolutely. It took me about 18 months to close Google, for example: Need identification and…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Leadership
If you have board meetings every 60 days, your investors will be actively involved Every 3 months, they'll be up to speed, but you won't always be top of mind…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success
So ChurnZero put out a great new report surveying 1,037 customer success professionals. The average size was 51-200 employees, so when things are taking off. Grab it here. A few…
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Blog Posts, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: As a startup founder, what’s the shadiest thing a VC asked you to do (to get their funding)? I don’t think anything is truly shady in venture. Deals…
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