Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth
I’ve watched many bridge rounds over time from a far, and took $500k in bridge capital at EchoSign myself when our seed round didn’t end up being quite enough to…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
Join Algolia CEO Nicolas Dessaigne and Segment VP of Marketing Hollie Wegman for a session discussing best practices for growing your ARR in your SaaS. Want to see more content…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Leadership
A ways back on SaaStr, we wrote an important post on your customer success leaders — The 5+2 Rule. That every member of your CS team needs to visit 5…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Q&A
My Top 3, plus 5 more than will really tease out what type of candidate they are, what they know, and what they really do: What are the most important…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth
In my first start-up, I had some rough experiences with VC collusion. I remember I went to one top VC’s Monday partner meeting (which went well) in the morning, and…
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Blog Posts, Early, Growth, Metrics, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales
We’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, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources
SaaS as we know it probably started in 1999. Salesforce was founded then, NetSuite just before that. SurveyMonkey was founded in 1999, one of the few SMB survivors of that…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership, SaaStr Events, SaaStr News
We’re quickly approaching our second ever SaaStr Europa, and this time we’ll have 2 full days, with double networking, a stellar lineup of SaaS all-star speakers and of course, the…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics
Xero is one of those SaaS companies most of us have heard of and know is a big success and sort of know about, but, not really 😉 What lessons…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Q&A
It’s a bit of a bummer than oftentimes, once you finally hire a few great VPs at $1m, $2m, $3m ARR … and they do a great job … that…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Sales
We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to find a great VP of Sales, what the risks are, what risks to take, etc. We’ve also summarized a few critical…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
Building a company is hard enough, but what if there’s no clear market to launch into? That’s the situation Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and CMO Anthony Kennada found themselves in…
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Growth, Hiring, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales
Karen Peacock is COO of Intercom, one of the fastest growing SaaS businesses of all time. She has led businesses of all sizes through massive growth. Listen to her top…
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Blog Posts, Growth
Much has been written about Zoom’s impressive financials as it prepared to IPO, growing > 100% at $425m+ in ARR! But as part of our new 5 Interesting Learnings series,…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, International Expansion, Product, SaaS Product Pricing, SaaStr Events, Videos
As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Join us for a fireside chat between…
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