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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Leadership5 Reasons to Actually Have Board Meetings
I’ve held off for 6+ years and 3000+ Quora answers on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have…
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Blog Posts, Sponsored Posts5 Ways to Make Product Your New Marketing Superpower
By: Jake Sorofman, CMO, Pendo. If you’re of a certain age, you’re probably familiar with the now highly questionable truism that the best products don’t always win. From VisiCalc to Betamax…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsBecome a SaaStr Certified Mentor at Annual!
We’re just a few weeks away from 2019 SaaStrAnnual.com, and a key core element of the entire event and week is Mentoring. Part of that are our Braindates, Sponsored by…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsDon’t miss these speakers at SaaStr Annual!
SaaStr Annual 2019 is just around the corner. Sessions are filling to capacity so quickly! Every week we round up some speakers who you should keep your eye on if…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosWhy Culture is a Key Criterion for Raising Capital and Driving Growth with Idinvest partners (Video + Transcript)
What are you doing to build and maintain the culture in your startup? Or has culture been put on the backburner as you have scaled? Well, it’s time to put…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsAll 1,000 Diversity + Inclusion Passes are Taken for SaaStr Annual!!
We are so excited for 2019 SaaStrAnnual.com on Feb 5.6.7! As part of Annual, we expanded our Diversity + Inclusion Program to include 1,000 no-cost VIP Passes to underpresented B2B founders…
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Blog Posts, Growth, SalesWhy a Great Rep Can Close 9x More Than a Poor Rep, and Even 2.5x More Than a Good Rep
We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about great sales professionals, on driving up Revenue Per Lead, on not capping sales comp systems, and on why you need to manage out…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr NewsThe Last 5 Years on Quora: From 2m to 45m Views
5 years ago today, it seemed like a lot was going on on at little old SaaStr. We had no employees or revenues, but after just 16 months of blogging…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsSaaStr Annual is almost here! Hear from Kabbage, Hubspot, Brex and more.
There are less than 30 days left until this year’s SaaStr Annual. Be sure to start stacking your agenda so you know what your schedule looks like and make the…
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Blog Posts, Growth, International Expansion, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosBuilding Great SaaS Companies Everywhere with SaaStr and Point Nine Capital (Video + Transcript)
Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO at SaaStr and Christoph Janz, Partner at Point Nine Capital, had an opening session at SaaStr Europe earlier this year. They talk about the state…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr NewsGet SaaStr Insights on the Latest News at Cloud Daily by SaaStr!
A few months ago we launched the “Cloud Daily” on Quora. We’ve quickly grown to 31,000+ subscribers so check it out. What is does uniquely is grab 3-5 of the…
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Blog Posts, Early9 Things First-Time Founders Get Wrong About The Journey
Want to start your own SaaS company? Do it. It is hard, harder than you can imagine. But if you do it right, and for real — it can last…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsIt’s ALMOST HERE! Don’t miss these speakers at Annual!
Figuring out which sessions to register for? How about these star-studded speakers! We’re updating our site every day with new sessions and speakers so keep your eyes peeled. The sessions…
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Blog Posts, Featured Posts, SaaStr EventsTake A Selfie With Our Billboard on 101S — And Come to the VIP Party At Annual For Free!
The Monday night before SaaStr Annual we’ll have a fun VIP+Friends party at the San Jose Museum of Art on Feb 4. We’ve set aside up to 50 tickets to…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Human ResourcesYour Top 5% Employees … And Bottom 5%
In my relatively brief tenure as a VP at a Fortune 500 tech company, I struggled a bit dealing with the processes, systems and bureaucracy. But in the time since,…
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If we have two overlapping products is it better to have one sales team or two teams?
It’s almost always better to have different sales teams handling different products Why? If for no other reason — Incentive Alignment. Sales reps work on commission, and they are driven almost entirely by what they get the most commission for. When they sell 2...
Want to Get Ahead in Sales? Make Sure You Pick the Right Track
It is important to decide which of 3 life tracks you want to be on: Super-successful sales rep / individual contributor. I.e., make $200k or even $500k+ someday, just closing deals yourself. Crush your number, live the life, take nice vacations, wear expensive suits,...
How difficult is to become a venture capitalist after 45?
It can be harder than you might think. The further you are along in your career, the easier it is to have the time, networks and personal capital to be an investor. No question. And it can take a decade or more to make any real money from investing. It’s hard to have...
How would Slack fare against Slack alternatives in the next 4 – 5 years?
Slack has become a platform. Every developer, and every company that wants to integrate with in-stream communications, integrates and builds on Slack. All of them. Chat is nothing new and the core “chat” part of Slack has been and will continue to be cloned and even...
Have you invested in a company before companies pre-IPO? How much ROI did you get?
So far, my ‘13–’15 investments are at about 10x. My ‘16-’18 investments are much earlier, and are sitting just under 2x. A few lessons for me: “Power laws” is an annoying phrase, but they do matter. Your top investments will likely return the bulk of your returns. A...
What successes have you had promoting your business on Twitter?
Social overall is a surprisingly small percentage of traffic to SaaStr.com: But of the Social segment, Twitter is the #1 performer this year to SaaStr out of all Social channels: Having said that, given how much work Social is, it’s not clear it’s worth it for us for...
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