Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&AQ: How are accelerators managing remote cohorts? I can’t literally answer for an accelerator, but as an investor here’s what I’ve observed: It’s a huge, huge boon for start-ups not…
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Blog PostsThis week was our “dead week” at Team SaaStr where we rest and recover a bit from 2020 SaaStr Annual at Home. Look for more news soon on our next…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Human Resources90% of my evaluation of any leader that works for me is the quality of people they can get to work for them. This could be wrong…. Maybe it should…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&A Q: What’s considered a large amount of money for an investor? A rough answer is more than 1.5%-2% of their investable capital is a “lot of money” for most…
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Blog Posts, ScaleLoved the session by @benchestnut at #SaastrAnnual. The thing that struck me the most was his thoughts on MOAT – “Speed of execution and ability to iterate in a crisis…
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Blog Posts, FundraisingKlue, which operates an AI-based competitive analysis platform, announced a $15 million Series A investment this week. Craft Ventures led the round and there was participation from HWVP, OMERS Ventures,…
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Blog Posts, GrowthWe’ve talked a lot on SaaStr recently on Covid Beneficiaries, the ones given a boost by the crazy times of this year. And I’ve seen it across my little investment…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, ScalePerhaps the single most important thing you can ever do in SaaS, at least after $1m in ARR or so, is hire the best VPs you can. We’ve talked a…
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Blog PostsThe CMO and team at Algolia did a session with me a while back on the top mistakes founders make in the early days. While some of it was familiar…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, Q&AQ: Why do many startup owners sell their firm and move on instead of planning on making it a big player like Google, Microsoft, etc.? I remember not long ago…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Q&AQ: How do you deal with bus factor in a startup? We are losing an employee which had a cornerstone role but he was tackling this area alone. Goodness, this…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Q&A, SalesQ: What factors that make it difficult for a salesperson to sell a new product to a customer who has been buying a competing product for many years? You can…
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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Q&AQ: What’s the best way to develop inbound leads when creating a new market/product category? The answer is you do All of It. Just more of it. Category creation is…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, LeadershipAlmost Screwed: Bootstrapping From $0 to $20M ARR in 2 Years with ClickUp https://t.co/lFF2uMeNwq — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) September 2, 2020 There’s a phenomenon, a type of SaaS…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&AWhy do venture capitalists invest in lots of companies even though 90% of them go bankrupt? Well, 90% of most venture-backed startups don’t go bankrupt. They at least try to…
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