Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
Being a founder, and especially being a founder-CEO, changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: What Was The Best Advice You Ever Got From an Angel Investor The best advice I ever got from one of my angel investors: Stop feeling sorry for…
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Blog Posts
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of June 19, 2022.
Blog Posts, Hiring, Sales
% of new VPs that succeed that “just need a little more time” to: * close more deals* generate more pipe* meet customers* understand the product better* etc. etc 0.239%…
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Blog Posts, Growth
These are Strange Times Indeed in SaaS and Cloud. The best SaaS companies from Datadog to Snowflake to HubSpot to Salesforce are growing faster than ever, even past $1B or…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success
“Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Featured Podcasts, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts
To celebrate 10 years of SaaStr, we’re revisiting some classic podcast episodes. Up today: a 2016 interview with Harry Stebbings and Gusto Co-Founder and CEO Josh Reeves.
Blog Posts
Ok, after a record-setting 2022 SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, we’re gearing up for the 8th SaaStr Annual! SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 2022 in the SF Bay Area, 10,000+ of us together,…
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Blog Posts
So no source of funding data is perfect. Essentially every source lags, because deals are often reported far after they close. Most unicorn press releases you see were closed months…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Marketing, Metrics
There are pros and cons to being cash-flow positive. In an ideal world, you’d experience both hyper-growth, and free cash flow from almost Day 1. If you’re Freemium and hit…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
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, Engineering, Other, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year.
5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So it wasn’t that long ago we checked in with Sprout Social, but when we did in June 2021, the public markets were at their peak for SaaS and Cloud…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
Dear founders: Most top, experienced investors know 20 minutes into the first meeting if they want to invest That's your window — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin #ДобісаПутіна (@jasonlk) March 3, 2021…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest? It’s confusing. Why do VCs need to own “so much”? Why do they often have these specific…
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