Blog PostsEvan Rachel Wood Joins Us at 2020 SaaStr Annual!
The point of SaaStr Annual is to learn. March 10-11-12 in SF Bay Area. To learn how to scale. Faster, with less stress, and more success. We’ll have 300+ speakers…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Q&AThe Only 2 Things That Really Motivate a Salesteam
Culture matters. Growth matters. Mission matters. They all matter. You have to do this. And that may be enough for most of your early employees. They may even be OK…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&A, Sales, Sales10 Tips to Start Selling to Big Companies as a Tiny Startup
Q: Why would any big business take a risk on a start-up? They wouldn’t. Unless, the gain way outweighs the risk. And yet … they do all the time. If…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Hiring, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosThe Top Tough Management Lessons – and Mistakes – from Founding a $3.8 Billion Market Leader (Video + Transcript)
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of SafeGraph and Co-Founder and former CEO of Live Ramp. Hear his top tough management lessons and mistakes he learned along the way to founding…
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Blog PostsThere Will Be 1,000 (!) VCs at 2020 SaaStr Annual. Here’s How to Leverage That, Meet Them, and Maybe Even Get a Term Sheet.
SaaStr and SaaStr Annual are about founders and execs first, and of the 15,000+ attendees at 2020 SaaStrAnnual, over 4,000 will actually be CEOs and founders. But you know what…
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Blog Posts, GrowthWhy If You Can Get to $10m ARR, You Can Get To $300m ARR
Why If You Can Get to $10m ARR, You Can Get To $300m ARR. Whoa. That may sound controversial, or even silly. VCs may mock this. But hold on. Let me…
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Blog PostsKick off 2020 with the New, Free SaaStr University!! 300 Structured Lessons!!
For 2020 our goal at SaaStr is to continue to find more ways to provide value to the SaaStr community, so we’re launching SaaStr University. It’s 300 lessons in 3+ tracks…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, VideosBuilding Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)
With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional…
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Blog PostsSaaStr Annual Prices Go Up $400 (!) Tomorrow!! And Check Out Our 300+ Amazing Speakers!!
Why folks wait for the last minute I have no idea. We’ll have 15,000+ at the 6th SaaStrAnnual.com on March 10-11-12 in SF Bay Area. And yet, only 36% of…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, MarketingHow To Keep Your Customers For a Decade. Or Longer.
Salesforce likes to talk about “Customers for Life”, and while that’s sort of catchy, it’s a little hard to grok what it really means. It finally sunk in for me…
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Blog Posts, Other10 SaaS New Year Resolutions For You. Pick a Few.
So you had a great December, added a great VP or two last year, won some bigger deals, and in general — you’re feeling good. You’ve even got a decent…
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Blog Posts, Marketing, SaaS Product PricingHow To Drive Up Your Average Deal Size. And Remember — Almost All Pricing is Relative.
You could spend days reading about pricing and pricing strategies in software on the web, but a lot of this content doesn’t really hit one, basic fundamental point — there is no…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Marketing, Metrics, Product, SaaStr Events, VideosHow to Build your Marketing Stack with Gorgias and OpenClassrooms (Video + Transcript)
There is no shortage of options when it comes to building your marketing technology stack. But with the seemingly endless options, how do companies navigate what to handle in-house and…
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Blog PostsThe Most Popular Cloud Daily! Stories of 2019
In the past year, we’ve added 300,000+ followers to our Cloud Daily from SaaStr! news and story feed on Quora. And from that, we get data, at least some. We…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AWhy A 4-5x Return On an Investment Isn’t “Good Enough” For Most VCs
Q: Will VCs who invested in my startup be happy to exit with a 4-5x return after 4.5 years? It’s hard to say. On average, VCs are looking for the…
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