Blog Posts, SaaStr NewsWhat We Are Hiring for at Team SaaStr!
So SaaStr Inc. is on a growth spurt and our tiny team needs some help. We’ve learn a lot over the years and really we only want to hire folks…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, VideosSmall Business Will Drive the Next Billion for SaaS with Kabbage (Video + Transcript)
Representing 98% of all U.S. businesses, 57% of all U.S. jobs and more than half of all non-farming GDP, small business is big business. As one of the most difficult…
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Blog Posts, Growth, LeadershipMaybe 80% of Public SaaS Companies Are in the SF Bay Area
These days, you clearly can build a successful SaaS and Cloud company outside the Bay Area. Shopify, Atlassian, Canva, Hubspot and so many others leaders founded and HQ’d outside SF…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsHere’s Why SaaStr Annual 2020 is All About the Workshops
It’s not all about the speakers this year. If you’re wondering what you should be doing in between sessions or maybe just after breakfast before things really kick off in…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AHow to Stand Out to VCs? Really, Really Know Your Sh*t
What can entrepreneurs do to stand out to prospective investors during a pitch? The best founders really know their sh*t. The best founders just know everything cold about their business:…
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Blog Posts, Tech NewsThe Top Cloud Stories of the Week: Sophos for $3.82 Billion; More Ransomware; Amazon Takes On Coachella; Hitting The ’20 Plan
We now have over 250,000 (!) subscribers to the SaaStr Cloud Daily on Quora, 9,200,000+ views, and are adding thousands of new followers per week. One benefit from Cloud Daily is our community speaks…
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Blog Posts, Product, Q&A, ScaleThe Return of the Suite: More and More SaaS Leaders Have Multiple, Successful, Integrated Products
In the SaaS world there is often a debate between “best in breed” point solutions and all-in-one or full stack solutions. Which path do you think wins out over the…
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Blog Posts, LeadershipAsk Every VP You Interview for A List of Everything They Want to Do. They’ll Only Do The Top 4-5.
There are a couple of exercises you just have to do when you go to hire your first VPs. Because the cost of a mis-hire is so high. It’s not…
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Blog Posts, GrowthIf You Want to Hit The ’20 Plan … You Gotta Be Making the Hires Now
A few seasons back, we wrote a post on hitting how in SaaS, you have to be putting the resources in place by Q3 to hit the plan for the…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Growth, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosFounder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)
When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Next comes the decisions to build or buy your infrastructure, DNS, monitoring, and analytics…
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Blog Posts, MetricsYes, If You Ask Customers If They Want To Cancel, They Will. And That’s OK. The Data from RevenueCat.
There’s a bit of a dirty truth in freemium and VSB (Very Small Business) recurring revenue apps: a lot of folks pay and don’t use. And thus, in many ways,…
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Blog Posts, Exit StrategyShould You Sell Your Company? A Great SaaStr Podcast with Salesforce Essentials
Salesforce Essentials and Mission.org came by SaaStr HQ and did a pretty unique podcast interview with me. We talked a lot about exits. About selling your company, lessons learned, and…
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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)
Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started. Is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to…
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Blog Posts, SaaStr EventsShould You be Attending the SaaStr 2020 CXO Summit?
Are you a company with $20 ARR or more, or getting close? Perhaps this is the SaaStr event you haven’t (but should’ve heard of)! This year, SaaStr is hosting it’s…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Human Resources, SalesYour Variable Comp Plans for Next Year: You Probably Need More of Them
Hopefully, sometime over the next few weeks, you’ll finish up your model and planning for next year. If not, please try to do it before 12/31 … 🙂 I’m working…
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