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, Company Culture, Customer Success, Growth, International Expansion, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosHow to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)
WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites &…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsIt’s a Go! 1,000+ at SaaStr East in Singapore!!
We’re heads down for SaaStr Annual 2020 in March (and SaaStr Europa in Paris June, tracking to 3,000+). But you wanted us to come to Asia, so we are —…
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Blog Posts, Sales, SalesWhy The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home.
(Note this is an update / refresh of our classic 2014 post) There are some real mysteries in SaaS. Even now that I understand them, I still see them as…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, EarlyThe Average SaaS CEO is About 37.5 Years Young
A few years back, Aileen Lee and Cowboy Ventures put out 2 seminal posts on TechCrunch about Unicorns. The first one defined the Unicorn age in 2013, and the second…
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Blog Posts, Q&AHow Many Employees Does a SaaS Company Have at 100M ARR?
Q: How many employees does a SaaS company have at 100M ARR? It used to be about 500. Now it’s often closer to 1000, with Unicorns raising so much more…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, International Expansion, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Videos10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)
Small and large businesses are often seen as competitors, with small businesses owning a fierce mentality of proving themselves as a player in the game instead of an underdog. But…
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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, Early, Fundraising, Q&AThe First VC I Ever Pitched Gave Me a Term Sheet. And I Blew It.
Q: Could you tell about the very first time you approached investors and how you proceeded in detail? The first time I approached investors it went well — until I…
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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, SaaStr EventsHere are all the Mentoring Opportunities at SaaStr Annual 2020
We have several different mentoring opportunities at SaaStr Annual 2020 this year and at our events year round, but whether this is your first event or a superfan, here’s a…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosFrom Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)
How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosThe Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)
Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35B in August of 2018. The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp…
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Blog Posts, Growth, MetricsTriple-Double-Double is Good. 10-100-110 is Enough.
Neeraj Agarwal of Battery Ventures a few years back simplified a lot of the journies top SaaS companies go on to TripleTripleDoubleDoubleDouble, T2D3. That the top SaaS companies triple in…
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Blog Posts, Featured Posts20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual
Phew. With Dreamforce and SaaStr Europa and Scale behind us, little tiny Team SaaStr is 100% focused on 2020 SaaStr Annual. It will be in March this year for just…
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