Dear SaaStr: If a Startup Raises $40 Million and Fails to Sell The Company, Do Founders Typically Exit With a Severance Package?
Dear SaaStr: If a Startup Raises $40 Million and Fails to Sell The Company, Do Founders Typically Exit With a Severance Package? Very rarely in a failed start-up, irrespective of the amount raised, will the founders end up with anything. If the start-up has raised a...
Negotiating Comp on the Way In Is Smart. Even Better is Doing It 12 Months In.
There’s so much discussion on LinkedIn and social media about how folks especially VPs of Sales should negotiate hard on the way in. Maybe. Go for it, by all means. But I think these posts miss a key second post. There’s an even better time to negotiate...
Dear SaaStr: What are The Pros and Cons of Raising VC Money from a Corporate VC?
Dear SaaStr: What are The Pros and Cons of Raising VC Money from a Corporate VC? The pros, and the cons, are both limited. The issues here are smaller than they used to be. Cons: Usually won’t carry the company or write many “second checks”. So not an ideal lead...
The Secrets to Scaling and Growth in Uncertain Times with Monday.com Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eran Zinman
monday.com is a $700m+ company today, which is 100x bigger than it was just six years ago. Discover the Co-Founder and Co-CEO’s secrets to scaling and growth in an unpredictable market.
Dear SaaStr: When My Startup Raises $10m, Would It Be Appropriate to Take a $170k Salary (no co founders)?
Dear SaaStr: When My Startup Raises $10m, Would It Be Appropriate to Take a $170k Salary (no co founders)? Yes, not a problem. You should take a “market correct” salary as soon as it’s economically immaterial to the company. I don’t write $10m...
Dear SaaStr: Should You Always Ask a Co-founder to Invest Their Own Money?
Dear SaaStr: Should You Always Ask a Co-founder to Invest Their Own Money? No. Especially if they haven’t really made any money yet, and you have more. In both my start-ups, I was the only founder to contribute cash. It didn’t matter. Yes, you need money one...
Dear SaaStr: Is it a Red Flag if The CEO is Only Interested in Selling the Company?
Dear SaaStr: Is it a Red Flag if The CEO is Only Interested in Selling the Company? It is. Or at least — it’s a Yellow Flag. The company will never be great if the CEO is thinking this way. There are so many start-ups, so many products, so much competition. You can...
10 Cheat Codes I Learned While Scaling to $400M with Yext and Roam Founder Howard Lerman
Yext and Roam founder, Howard Lerman, shares the 10 tactical, unconventional cheat codes that helped scale Yext to $400M.
Dear SaaStr: I Just Sent an Email to a VC with Two Typos. Should I Resend It?
Dear SaaStr: I Just Sent a Email to a VC with Two Typos. Should I Resend It? No, no, no and no. First, VCs want to see strength. Not arrogance usually, but strength. Some whimpy email apologizing for some typos isn’t strength. Second, it shows poor prioritization....
Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Stripe’s First COO Claire Hughes Johnson (Video + Pod)
As we gear up for 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay, once again on our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus, I wanted to take a look back at a few sessions that I’ve come to appreciate more with time. This was one, when Stripe’s first COO, Claire Hughes Johnson, came...
Dear SaaStr: How Do Enterprise SaaS Companies Deal With Late Payments?
Dear SaaStr: How Do Enterprise SaaS Companies Deal With Late Payments? Yes, in the end, you have to be willing to switch off the platform. But do it gracefully, with respect. Do it the same exact way you’d want to be treated if you were a customer. The key is...
5 Secrets to a 97% Employee Retention Rate Over 5 Years with Beefree’s CEO and People & Culture Director
Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of Beefree, and Enrica Lipari, the People and Culture Director of Growens, share 5 secrets to a high employee retention rate.
Top 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling GTM Teams at Notion, Asana, and Dropbox
Robbie O’Connor, GM EMEA at Notion and first European hire at Asana and Dropbox walks through the building blocks required to scale GTM teams and operations
7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin
What is the top advice entrepreneurs never hear that they need to hear? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares 7 pieces of wisdom for founders.
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