by Faith Storey | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Compensation, Customer Success, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Sales, Scale, Videos
Mark Roberge is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and the former CRO at Hubspot. His session was our highest-rated session at SaaStr Annual 2019 and you’re about to see why. He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and...
by Faith Storey | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth, Product, Videos
A common myth is that you need to make $100K MRR to go for your series A. But Ophelia Brown, Founder at Blossom Capital, is challenging that way of thinking. She founded Blossom Capital to focus on Series A regardless if you have hit that $100K MRR threshold. Here are...
by Faith Storey | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
Jay Simons, President at Atlassian, talks about the openness at Atlassian and some of the lessons he learned along the way. “At Atlassian, openness is core to everything we do: every employee can access most information on our product Confluence; “open...
by Jason Lemkin | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, SaaStr Events |
We’re running our own interesting NPS study at SaaStr Inc. labs 🙂 ’18-’19 represented an interesting NPS point for our events. Our first ever SaaStr Europa in Paris generated our highest NPS ever. But the 2018 SaaStr Annual was a bit of an NPS...
by Faith Storey | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, International Expansion, Videos
Teddie Wardi’s, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, session at SaaStr Europa talked all things M&A. While most of us assume M&A happens late stage, Teddie gives a list of reasons why you should use M&A in your growth strategy. Key takeaways:...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth |
Recently for the SaaStr Annual, we were “the largest customer” for 3 vendors. All 3 “lied” to us … er, if not exactly lied, then substantially and materially over-represented their capabilities and experiences: One vendor was a friend of...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 18, 2019 | Growth, Sales |
As the war for talent continues unabated in tech, especially in the Bay Area, employees are getting better and better deals in many cases. And in many cases, that’s a good thing. But it’s possible to take things so far that the company is harmed. I’ve noted a trend...
by Faith Storey | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog Posts, Growth, International Expansion, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
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 of SaaS, pros and cons of SF vs Europe and more. Also, if you didn’t attend SaaStr...
by Faith Storey | Jan 8, 2019 | Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
“I think you have to make emotionally difficult choices all along the way to build a healthier company and to make you also, maybe avoid this fate” – Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine. The fate he’s referring to? Several founders who sold too...
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 9, 2018 | Blog Posts, Growth, SaaS Product Pricing, Videos |
Recently, at the SaaStr Really Big Holiday Party, Jason Lemkin, CEO & Founder of SaaStr, and Byron Deeter, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners joined forces to talk about the rise of the cloud, the incredible growth rates and discuss just how big the cloud can...
by Faith Storey | Nov 23, 2018 | Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Early, Engineering, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
This session at SaaStr Annual 2018 featured Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato HQ and Jeffrey Queisser CoFounder and SVP, Engineering of BOX. They talk about the pyramid you need to have in your startup to attract and retain the best engineers as you scale. Also, don’t...
by Jason Lemkin | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog Posts, Compensation, Growth, Sales |
This year we’ve had a string of fairly terrible experiences buying software at little ol’ SaaStr: With one well-known SaaS vendor, an employee e-signed a 2-year contract without permission. We never deployed the software, and yet the vendor threatened to...
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 27, 2018 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership, SaaStr Events, SaaStr News |
It’s here! The day eager SaaStr superfans have been waiting for — that’s right, we’re giving you the first look at the SaaStr Annual 2019 Agenda and Sessions! For the 5th ever SaaStr Annual, we’re going bigger and better than ever before with...
by Faith Storey | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Growth, Hiring, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
This session with leaders in the customer success space discusses best practices for your customer success teams in 2018. They talk about when to hire your VP of Customer Success, qualities to look for in your team and how to ask for feedback at the best times in the...
by Faith Storey | Oct 23, 2018 | Early, Growth, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos
General Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, Mamoon Hamid, and CEO at Netskope, Sanjay Beri, talk about building your company for 100+ years. Sanjay discusses scaling your culture throughout your journey. He also shares his tips on hiring in the...
