Blog Posts, Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Featured Q&A, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosLexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosWe all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability…
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Blog Posts, ScaleWe kicked off our 5 Interesting Learnings series with “newer” SaaS companies for the most part, and learnings as they IPO’d: 5 Interesting Learnings from PagerDuty, as It IPOs 5…
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Blog Posts, Metrics, ScaleBill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. Why? …
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Blog Posts, ScaleAlthough most of us aren’t quite approaching $1b in ARR, we can still learn from the leaders. We last checked in on Slack as it was IPO’ing. Now with some…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosJason Green, Emergence Capital Founder, and General Partner moderates a discussion with Janine Pelosi, Zoom Head of Marketing and Online Business and Tolithia Kornweibel, Gusto Head of Marketing. Want to…
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Blog Posts, ScaleGartner has its latest Cloud report out, and while one can always pick at any report, it’s at least a well-resourced and reasoned source on the size of SaaS and the…
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Blog Posts, Featured Q&A, Q&A, ScaleWe were recently asked: Q: Are there any examples of a unicorn startup that was bootstrapped? Of course the answer is yes. But I didn’t have a sense of how…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosFreemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosTypically founders are the first salespeople. After all, it’s likely they know the product the best, and they can use customer feedback to measure market fit. However, at some point,…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosJoin Aaron Ross, Predictable Revenue Co-CEO for a Q&A session. He discusses four areas you can make more revenue in your business, how to build out your sales team, how…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosGlobalization opens up a world of opportunities for sales growth. We often focus on the positive sides of growth—but what about taking a look at the ugly sides? Even what…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Videos, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosStarting a company can be daunting, exhausting, and expensive, but with the right focus and idea – extremely rewarding; take it from Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike. In…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Videos, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosThe startup journey moves in waves—whether you’re ready or not. After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future…
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Blog Posts, Metrics, ScaleTwilio recently crossed into the $1 Billion ARR club, if not quite at record growth rates, then fairly close to it. 81% Year-over-Year growth at $1,000,000,000+ in ARR. The $1…
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