Building a Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham (Video + Pod)
Freshworks is a successful public SaaS company that has a humble beginning in the small town of Chennai, India. Founder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham shares five big bets that paid off as he scaled this multi-product company.
The Top 10 Mistakes First Time SaaS Founders Make (Updated)
When you’re about to hire someone with an amazing logo on their LinkedIn, That worked somewhere so amazing, so great, so similar to what you want to become Just ask yourself: -> Would we still hire them without that logo? If not, do not make hire And … you gotta be...
How The Strange and Odd World of Financial Accounting Drives Tech Acquisitions and Investments
So first a caveat: I know just enough about financial accounting to be dangerous. Second caveat: I’m way, way oversimplifying things. But with that out of the way, let’s talk just enough about financial accounting to explain why Big Tech Companies both...
25,000+ Connections Made at 2023 SaaStr Annual!!
So we’ll share much more on 2023 SaaStr Annual soon, and start editing, transcribing and publishing many of the sessions ASAP. For now, you can watch tons of them streamed here on our YouTube. The heart of Annual now is meetings and connections, on-site,...
How To Actually Succeed in SaaS: AMA Part 1 with SaaStr Founder And CEO Jason Lemkin
SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares what it takes to be a successful SaaS startup in today’s economy, the SaaS trends of 2023, and more.
5 Interesting Learnings from Samsara At Almost $1 Billion in ARR
So Samara is that vertical fleet-and-more-management-and-more SaaS company that has just roared out of the gate since its quiet IPO. Things did get harder for them about a year ago, but growth has since reaccelerated. And efficient growth at that. Fast forward to...
What to Expect from SaaS in 2024 with Founder & General Partner of Craft Ventures David Sacks and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)
Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, and David Sacks, Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures, share their predictions on SaaS in 2024.
Dear SaaStr: Can A SaaS Startup Really Scale With 2 Co-CEOs?
Dear SaaStr: Can A SaaS Startup Really Scale With 2 Co-CEOs? Many will tell you it’s a bad idea, and it probably is — in most cases. I sort of tried this myself, and it didn’t quite work. We had all the classic problems of unclear authority, especially...
The Top 18 SaaStr Articles on Excelling at Work
Practica put together its guide of the top SaaStr articles to excel at work. Many are my favorites too, and some you may not have seen. I think this is some pretty helpful reading here, a good slice of some of the most tactical insights: Got 100 Customers? Believe...
Dear SaaStr: What Are the Danger Signs a Startup Isn’t Going to Work Out?
Dear SaaStr: What Are the Danger Signs a Startup Isn’t Going to Work Out? Let me share my list. It’s more about things I worry about after investing, as sometimes they’re hard to see before: Founders’ understanding of market doesn’t get deeper. I really...
The Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make After $10m ARR
So the other day I looked back at about 25 SaaS seed investments I’d made that had scaled well past $10m-$20m and reflected on the top themes. Including — the top mistakes founders make again and again as they cross $10m ARR. Trust me. Here they are. ...
My App Stack: Shrav Mehta, Founder and CEO of Secureframe
“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. Last week we had a great one...
Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Sessions You May Have Missed From SaaStr Annual 2023 and lots more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of September 10th 2023.
Salesforce Enters the Mature Phase of Growth — At $31.4 Billion in ARR
So the open question with any great SaaS business is the Rule of Large Numbers. Most SaaS businesses will grow almost forever, but you do exhaust your customer base, and then your ability to upsell them, and then even your ability to effectively add and acquire other...
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