Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, EarlyA few years back, Aileen Lee and Cowboy Ventures put out 2 seminal posts on TechCrunch about Unicorns. The first one defined the Unicorn age in 2013, and the second…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&AQ: Could you tell about the very first time you approached investors and how you proceeded in detail? The first time I approached investors it went well — until I…
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Blog Posts, Early, Sales, SalesYesterday on LinkedIn and Twitter we had over 100,000 views and engagements on a quick post on The Magical Sales Rep. It’s worth a deeper dive. The transition from founder-led…
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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, VideosLots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started. Is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to…
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Blog Posts, Early, International Expansion, Leadership, Marketing, Product, SaaS Product Pricing, SaaStr Events, VideosJoin Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual…
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EarlyWe passed a new milestone on Quora — crossing 50,000,000 total views. As you can see, views dropped a bit and then rebounded strongly in the past few months. With…
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Early, Q&A, SalesPerhaps the “cheapest” thing a salesperson did was hide a cheaper edition from us that would have better met our needs. And by doing so, that vendor lost a top…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&AMy gut was that 50/50 equity splits among SaaS founders were more common than non-equal splits — but I just looked and I’m wrong. Of the 25+ investments I’ve made,…
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Blog Posts, Early, Growth, Metrics, SaaS Product Pricing, SalesWe’ve talked quite a bit about the pros and many cons of raising prices on existing customers on SaaStr. Our general view, and experience, is that until you are fairly…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&AThe main advantage is you can pursue a market or opportunity that is not worth their time. Yet. Big, established tech companies aren’t stupid, or ignorant. Not at all. They…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, EarlyAlmost all of our 4,000+ pieces of content and 300+ SaaStr sessions and 250+ podcasts are really just about how to do … better. A smidge better. A bit better. …
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Blog Posts, Early, HiringI’ve now worked with or invested in ~25 successful start-ups beyond my own companies and I’ve watched a lot of VP hire train wrecks. Probably the most common is “the…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, VideosGorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&AFundraising … It is sales. It is selling stock. So be very careful with what advice you get. When you have more demand than shares to sell, yes you can…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, VideosMichael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv and Socialcam. He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised…
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