Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
We try to focus on positive things here on SaaStr. We leave negative to the critics. It’s easy to be a critic. It’s much harder to help and see the…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Customer Success, Early, Leadership, Sponsored Posts
Mark Faggiano, CEO and Founder of Taxjar, shares 3 things he learned the hard way and how other SaaS founders can avoid making the same mistakes.
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
Don't pick a cofounder that – has something better to do– wants to see how it goes– has a clear backup plan– sees it as risky– argues over who should…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Featured Podcasts, Leadership, Podcasts, Scale
Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of SaaS superstar Twilio second. He knows both sides of the executive & engineer equation intimately. He gets what goes on in a developer’s brain and the detailed process of building software
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
Burnout is a real risk in SaaS. Not usually in the early days. But as time marches on — It’s a huge risk. One piece of “evidence” — a…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Leadership, Scale, Videos
SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin catches up with Therese Tucker, Founder, and CEO at Blackline about her SaaS journey, going long and surviving black swan events.
Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
There’s an exercise BigCos do, that I was asked to do, that at first, I thought was a waste of time. The exercise is: “How would you run your business…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Product, Scale, Videos
Nearly 60% of all custom apps are now built outside the IT department thanks to low code app development. As one of the early champions of “low-code”, Howie Liu, CEO and Co-Founder at Airtable, shares the lessons he’s learned building and scaling a company in an entirely new category.
Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Metrics, SaaS Product Pricing
Ok, you’ve finally crossed $1m, $2m, $4m ARR. Now — you just want to get there faster. And that’s where you’ll make a lot of mistakes. The most important thing…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Sales
There’s a set of questions I get asked all the time: Should you pay sales reps on renewals? Should you pay sales reps on upsells a long time down the…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership
Q: How do I overcome impostor syndrome as a startup founder? Maybe you never do. When Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of $60B+ Atlassian, came to SaaStr Annual, he shared that he…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, Other
The past 7 years I’ve had a chance to observe a lot of SaaS founders, as an investor, as an advisor and more … and the vast majority I’ve worked…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership, Metrics
In both my start-ups, I was constantly worried about losing all my investors’ money. The first time, my first start-up, which we haven’t talked much about, NanoGram Devices, I mainly…
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Blog Posts, Early, Leadership, Q&A
Don't pick a cofounder that – has something better to do– wants to see how it goes– has a clear backup plan– sees it as risky– argues over who should…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership
We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that…
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