by Faith Storey | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, International Expansion, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
This fireside chat with, Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO @ Algolia and Edith Harbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO @ Launch Darkly, discusses building a culture that scales. In the early days, Nicolas mentions how Algolia’s culture continued to break as he scaled. As of today,...
by Faith Storey | Oct 16, 2018 | Early, Growth, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos
At SaaStr Annual 2018 a few months ago, Sam Parr, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hustle, interviews Shan Sinha, Founder and CEO of Highfive. They talk about Shan’s history in SaaS including Google acquiring one of his previous startups, DocVerse, which created the...
by Jason Lemkin | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, Scale |
What’s the value of being a First Mover in SaaS? There’s clearly value there. But exactly how much? How often do first movers just dominate the world? I stumbled onto an old image of The 10 Most Popular Apps in the Salesforce ecosystem in 2010/2011, and...
by Faith Storey | Oct 9, 2018 | Company Culture, Customer Success, Customer Success, Growth, SaaStr Events, Videos
At SaaStr Annual 2018, Tom Hale, President of SurveyMonkey, talked about SurveyMonkey’s success in customer satisfaction. He talks about NPS, how to understand it and utilize the data from your NPS to improve your product(s) and customer happiness. Also,...
by Jason Lemkin | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth |
SaaS: 1 Year: Find a customer2 Years: Pay the rent3 Years: Mini-brand5 Years: Can't Be Killed8 Years: Pre-nicorn10 Years: Unicorn15 Years: Leader/Public 20 Years: $1b+ ARR. Just Getting Going. — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 13,...
by Jason Lemkin | Oct 6, 2018 | Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, Product, Sales |
Is it better to create a new market, or enter a large existing one? Or even redefine a smaller one, to make it bigger? All of these can work. But creating a new market might be the vector where it is hardest to conceptualize the actual, true market size of. ...
by Faith Storey | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, International Expansion, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
At SaaStr Annual earlier this year, VP of Growth at LinkedIn, Aatif Awan, had a session on expanding internationally. Has your SaaS startup gone global? If so, what tips and tricks do you feel helped you get to that point? His 6 step framework can be applied to any...
by Faith Storey | Sep 18, 2018 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
Co-Founder and CEO at GoCardless, Hiroki Takeuchi and CEO and Founder at Shipamax, Jenna Brown on their switch from the employee role to the founder role and what they learned along the way. If you’re a current founder, do you agree? What lessons did you learn...
by Faith Storey | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Videos
We sat down with CEOs of high-growth SaaS startups across the world on what they would do better next time. Featuring: PJ Bouten – Co-Founder and CEO at Showpad Hande Cilingir – Co-Founder and CEO at Insider Frederic Plais – CEO at Platform.sh Jason...
by Faith Storey | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
Our podcast host, Harry Stebbings, sat down with Mathilde Collin, CEO and Founder @ Front. We talk about her start in SaaS, why she created Front, how she consistently gets funding in every round and more. We will have fireside sessions with all the CEOs and Founders...
by Jason Lemkin | Sep 6, 2018 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics |
IPOs seem like a dime-a-dozen these days in B2B/SaaS/B2D, but Elastic was one I wanted to learn a bit more about. Many of you likely use Elastic and/or Algolia to power search on your sites and applications. A few interesting learnings for me at least: TAM is What...
by Faith Storey | Sep 6, 2018 | Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Videos
At SaaStr Europa a few months ago, we had Aaron Ross join us in Paris to educate the evergrowing European SaaS landscape. In his session, he talks about growing and building a thriving outbound sales team. To build this team, there are three areas you need to focus...
by Faith Storey | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog Posts, Early, Growth, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
We would all love to have our startup known as the “Unicorn for X.” Think Meltwater or Qualtrics as great examples. To figure out how to build a unicorn, our Founder, Jason Lemkin, sat down with CEO @ Qualtrics, Ryan Smith at SaaStr Annual. We also talk...
by Team SaaStr | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership, SaaStr Events, SaaStr News |
Over the years, the SaaStr Annual has hosted a bevy of top industry leaders (Aaron Levie, Stewart Butterfield, Therese Tucker, and Claire Hughes-Johnson, just to name a few), all of whom have graced the stage to share their biggest learnings, most important wins and...
by Jason Lemkin | Aug 15, 2018 | Blog Posts, Growth, Marketing, SaaStr Events |
As we gear up for the 5th SaaStr Annual, with an expected 12,000+ attendees, 100+ top tier sponsors, and 3+ days of content across 5+1 stages (phew!), I was looking back for our team meeting and trying to assemble what we’ve learned, and found this first tweet...
