My App Stack: Rik Haandrikman, VP of Marketing at RevenueCat
“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 time we had a great one...
The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue
Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? Let me list some of the ones I see most often going from say $1m to $10m in ARR: Chasing the Shiny Penny. One of the biggest mistakes I see after $1m in trying...
Can You Still Get Acquired for a Decent Price if Growth Has Slowed or Even Stopped? Yeah, Sometimes
So the other day a CEO reached out to me about advice on an acquisition. They wanted to do three things: Enter a space they had no product or customers in today; and Add on at least $10m of extra revenue for the year; and Not add too much to their burn rate. So this...
Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Pivot?
Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Pivot? I think in SaaS, it’s when you have a handful of customers, and they are happy, and it’s been 9+ months … and you are growing, but slowly. If you have no customers, it’s not really a pivot or tilt, it’s a...
The #1 Thing To Do When Times Are Harder
I know it may not be what you want to hear But the answer to how to get through tougher times is generally to work even harder At least for a while — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 🇮🇱 (@jasonlk) February 11, 2023 So as we’ve talked about many times on SaaStr,...
Doubling Down: Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners
“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Lucy Deland, Co-founder & General Partner at Inspired Capital. Check that out...
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn?
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn? You don’t. Instead, you drive it down. Each quarter. You can’t eliminate churn. It’s a fact of business life in selling a product with recurring revenue and thus recurring sales. You can hide churn (e.g., by signing multiyear...
5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $2.4 Billion in ARR
So we’ve probably covered HubSpot more than any other SaaS and Cloud leader on this 5 Interesting Learnings series, but there’s a good reason for it: First, HubSpot is a lot like most of us. It sells sales, marketing, support and more tools. And second,...
AI Day is Streaming Live TODAY – Here’s how to tune in
Building off the popularity of our AI Day at last September’s SaaStr Annual, we’re bringing it back online this March on Wednesday, March 27th for a completely live, digital event that will bring the global SaaStr community together with the brightest innovators in Artificial Intelligence for a day of digital content. (And don’t worry we’ll be bringing it back to the Annual this September too.)
Dear SaaStr: How Can an Early Stage SaaS Startup Get its First 1-3 Pilot Fortune 500 Paying Customers?
Dear SaaStr: How Can an Early Stage SaaS Startup Get its First 1-3 Pilot Fortune 500 Paying Customers? It’s not magic. And it’s not a mystery. Even though it can seem like it, until you’ve done it yourself. There are basically two paths, and one...
The Investments Where I’m Going to Lose All My Money
So when I started writing venture checks in 2013, I didn’t know what I was doing, but I had a strong start: First was Pipedrive co-leading seed, then acquired for $1.5B cash Second was Algolia leading U.S. seed, now at $200m+ ARR and an IPO candidate Third was...
Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin covers the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence, pricing, efficiency, and funding in SaaS.
Dear SaaStr: What Was it Like Acquiring Your First Customer?
Dear SaaStr: What Was it Like Acquiring Your First Customer? I had very different experiences in each of my startups. In my first start-up, we were whale hunting — big, large, Fortune 500 customers. So Customer #1 showed us the path to our future. My first customer...
The New CRO’s First Job Now is To Aggressively Raise Prices. Be Wary.
One of our top vendors just got a new CRO He got on the phone with us and said he was doubling pricing because "their costs are up". No heads up, just to make his plan. Now, we are looking at their competitor. Before … we weren't. Worth it for...
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