Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership
Dear SaaStr: When Should You Sell Your Startup? Having been through the acquisition process 4x — twice as a founder, twice as a start-up exec, here’s my list of when…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&A
I was with the CEO of a $XB+ SaaS CEO a little while back He was acquiring a leanly-funded startup. The founder owned so much, he would make more than…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Fundraising, Metrics
There was a very curious thing in Zoom’s financials leading up to its IPO that I am surprised no one commented on, at least that I saw. But as a…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership
A little while back I had coffee with a very successful VC and we chatted about our views of what’s happening in SaaS. Â The things we are both interested in…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership
When I sold my first company, I used a banker, an M&A advisor. When I sold my second, I did not. Not using a banker the second time was a…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Q&A
It can vary a lot, of course. If you never raise venture capital, the founder-CEO might own 50%, or even 100% in some cases. The founders of $10B+ Mailchimp still…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising
At least a few times a week, I am sent a deck or exec summary that includes an “Exit Strategy”. The slide sometimes references a nice acquisition by an adjacent…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Leadership
Let’s take a look at a few recent $1B+ “exits”, i.e. sales in SaaS: Pipedrive acquired by Vista for $1.5B Thoma Bravo acquires Sophos for $3.8B Insight Partners buys Veam…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Scale
A reminder that as a start-up, if you aren’t growing at fairly fast rates … your comp is 5x ARR Also a tough realization for bridge rounds, etc. https://t.co/bL5o63pdsB —…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy
Q: Would you rather own 100% of a company worth 100 million or 10% of a company worth 1 billion? This is the greatest question for ambitious founders. I’ve thought about…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Sponsored Posts
By Avanish Sahai, Google Cloud VP of ISV & Application Partners At SaaStr Annual, we’ll be sharing stories of how a few of our SaaS partners enable enterprises to change…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Exit, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Videos
How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Videos
How do you create a collaborative, cohesive workplace that scales from your first employees to multiple offices in different locations? How can you ensure the heart of your company’s culture…
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Company Culture, Customer Success, Customer Success, Exit, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts
Ep. 262: Jon Herstein is the Chief Customer Officer at Box, the company that provides one platform for secure content management, workflow and collaboration. Prior to…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Videos
Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by…
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