How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)
Discover the best ways for a seed-stage startup to pitch to investors and successfully fundraise from Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel.
Dear SaaStr: As a Founder, How Do You Deal With Stress In a Startup?
Dear SaaStr: As a Founder, How Do You Deal With Stress In a Startup? Dealing with stress is important, especially for founders, who do have to hide … some of it. Per the WSJ and Challenger, Grey, this year more CEOs have left their jobs than any year since 2002...
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin deep dives into the current state of SaaS and the Cloud and what to expect over the next year.
Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Still Go After Venture Capital, and When?
Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Go After Venture Capital, and When? There are only two reasons to raise Venture Capital: You need it. If the only way you can get to the next level is to raise capital, then do it. I needed to for both my start-ups, up to...
From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman (Video + Podcast)
The secret to success for a lot of SaaS companies is going multi-product. Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice, shares how to scale a multi-product startup.
Dear SaaStr: Is It Ridiculous To Call Yourself the CEO When Your Startup is Tiny?
Dear SaaStr: Is It Ridiculous To Call Yourself the CEO When Your Startup is Tiny? I used to feel that way, at least a bit. I used to look at tiny little startups and wince when a founder went around talking about himself as “CEO”. But then I had to learn how to Sell...
What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich
In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion.
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder? The list of problems is endless (this is one of the hardest parts of the job), but let me try to order a few of the biggest challenges roughly based on stage: Pre-Revenue: Finding a Truly Great...
Dear SaaStr: What is The Biggest Difference Between Running a 10 Person Startup and a 100 Person Startup?
Dear SaaStr: What is The Biggest Difference Between Running a 10 Person Startup and a 100 Person Startup? The biggest structural difference is you have to hire all the VPs by employee 50–100. You won’t be able to scale this far without a full management team — VPs of...
Hiring Your VPs: When Can You Compromise? (UPDATED)
Sometimes, you just have to lower the bar to get a hire done You've just run out of time, and you can't find someone great Only thing is I've never seen a single one of those hires work out — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 19, 2023 I...
State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)
Bessemer Venture Partners share their annual State of the Cloud report, including a look back at the past year, current trends and benchmarks, plus tactics to improve efficiency and innovation.
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...
The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Dave Kellogg (Video + Transcript)
We’re almost there!! 2023 SaaStrAnnual.com!! And while 85% of our speakers are new, we’ve also brought back some of our all-time favorites — with brand new content. That includes Dave Kellog, the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. ...
A Look Back: The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)
You’re the founder of a nicely growing SaaS startup that has just raised a Series A, Series B, or Series C funding round. You need to hire rapidly to seize the opportunity. But how much should you hire, what roles should you hire, and what should the org chart look like when you’re done?
David Sacks, co-founder and general partner at Craft will share what works from the 20 unicorns he’s invested in, including AirBnB, ClickUp, Slack, SpaceX, Twitter, Uber, and Wish.
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