Blog Posts, Metrics, Scale5 Interesting Learnings From Bill.com’s IPO
Bill.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, Scale5 Interesting Learnings From Slack at $700m+ in ARR
Although 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, VideosA Founder’s Guide to Getting More Leads – ASAP (Video + Transcript)
Jason 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, ScaleSaaS Will Hit $116 Billion Next Year. Wow.
Gartner 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, ScaleThe Average SaaS Unicorn Raises $370,000,000. And Bootstrapping is Rare.
We 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 at Scale with Typeform CEO Joaquim Lecha + Christoph Janz of Point Nine (Video + Transcript)
Freemium 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, VideosThe 3 Stages of Denial When Graduating Beyond Founder Led Sales with Mixmax (Video + Transcript)
Typically 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, VideosA Q&A with Aaron Ross (Video + Transcript)
Join 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, VideosAddressing the Ugly Side of Growth: Good Problems Are Still Problems, with Tara Bryant of PIpedrive (Video + Transcript)
Globalization 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, Videos“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)
Starting 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, Videos“Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth” Stride.VC Founder Harry Stebbings and MessageBird Founder and CEO Robert Vis (Video + Transcript)
The 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 Crossed $1 Billion in ARR Growing 81%. Yes, At $1 Billion.
Twilio 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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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Customer Success, Customer Success, Featured Videos, Leadership, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos“Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS” Egnyte Chief Customer Officer and Co-Founder Rajesh Ram (Video + Transcript)
The SaaS business model has risen to popularity for many reasons – it’s fast-paced, creates residual revenue streams, and well, the multiples are strong. However, while many are flocking to…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosFrom Product Market Fit to Scale – Perspectives from Founder + Investor (Video + Transcript)
Join Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. Vista…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Videos, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosCrushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)
Join Leah Busque, TaskRabbit founder and Fuel Capital general partner as she talks about crushing the pivot, doing a complete product reboot and the lessons learned along the way. Want…
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