Blog Posts, Hiring
The truth is, it’s not just VCs that lowered their standards in the boom of ‘20-‘21 So did startups Many mediocre hires were made to fill slots, reference checks not…
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Blog Posts
Just a note to the 2,500+ coming to SaaStr Europa on June 7-8 in Barcelona: our health & safety rules have not changed — even with the new, more permissive…
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Blog Posts, Growth
So, for many of us in SaaS, these are still the best of times. The Cloud is bigger than ever, CIOs are buying more than ever, and SaaS is still…
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There are many ways to slice-and-dice public market data, but the headline one Bessemer called out is the most visceral I’ve seen: Public SaaS and Cloud companies lost $1 Trillion…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: What’s considered a large amount of money for an investor? A rough answer is more than 1.5%-2% of their fund size is a “lot of money” for most…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&A
Q: How old is too old to start a startup? IMHE it’s about a state of mind.. Let me try to add some practical answers: 1. First, you need to give…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Scale
Sprout Social IPO’d in Dec 2019 at an $800m market cap It IPO’d early, in a crowded space. But they kept on going, and gong, and growing. 2.5 years later,…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
Always assume no one else funds you again Always — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin #ДобісаПутіна (@jasonlk) January 7, 2020 So right now is both great times in SaaS (record growth in…
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Blog Posts, Early, Featured Q&A, Product, Q&A, SaaS Product Pricing
Q: As an entrepreneur starting out, is it better to overprice your product or underprice it? I remember years ago I was at an event with the CEO of a…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
Dear SaaStr: Why Do VCs Always Want You To Raise 18 Months of Runway? Or Even MoreNow? The math is pretty straightforward, and it’s gotten a bit tougher recently. VCs…
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Blog Posts
A small FYI to our partners and partners-to-be: all SaaS media assets are fully sold out for 2022: Podcast: (200k distro) sold out for 2022 SaaStr Weekly, Daily, and Insider…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Hiring
I remember about 24 months back, I asked one of the very best VPs of Sales I know to help me find a VP of Customer Success. This VP of…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: Do My VP of Eng and My VP of Product Have to Be Technically Excellent? This has been pretty much my experience A Great VP of Engineering must either:…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So we took a look at RingCentral early in this series at $1B in ARR. RingCentral is a very interesting case study in SaaS of starting very SMB, way in…
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Blog Posts, Q&A, SaaS Product Pricing
Q: Dear SaaStr: Does Freemium Always Work? No. Freemium and PLG models don’t always work. And sometimes, they only work partially. For Freemium to work, you need at least 2…
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