Blog Posts, Early, Product
Overall, the 2021 SaaStr Annual might have been the most successful ever. The outdoor experience, the speakers, the energy, the enthusiasm was off the charts. And it was our best…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Product
Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. Most around $6m-$10m ARR, although one just past $2m ARR. And critically, most have a…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Product, Sales
Many start-ups, and even larger SaaS vendors, are reluctant to provide a Service Level Agreement — an SLA — that says they will, well, stay up. It’s not our fault,…
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Blog Posts, Other, Product
Sales still gets all the attention in SaaS, but the best investment you can make today is in your existing customers. The vast majority aren’t going anywhere, and may even…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Product, Sales, Videos
Hear from Square’s Global Head of Sales, Ashley Grech, on the challenges and learnings of Square’s work to move upmarket and serve multiple customer segments at once.
Blog Posts, Product, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: Have All the Good SaaS Ideas Been Built? Sort of, but it’s OK. Why? What software can do in each category keeps evolving, and keeps getting more sophisticated,…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Product, Q&A
Q: Dear SaaStr: How Long Should a CEO Continue Being the Head of Product? Roughly, for me, for as long as it’s about a 10-hour a week job. Or often,…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Chime wasn’t the first digital bank, but it certainly became the largest. Hear how Chime CEO and co-founder, Chris Britt, won in a highly competitive market.
Blog Posts, Product, Q&A, Sales
Are there SaaS companies that don’t offer free trials? Lots of SaaS companies don’t offer a free trial — intentionally. But more and more are adding them, from Atlassian to…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Hear from PagerDuty CPO, Sean Scott, and CMO, Julie Herendeen, on how PagerDuty has embraced a product-led growth model and the success they’ve seen since doing so.
Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Join Workday’s EVP of Product Pete Schlampp as he shares how he’s accelerating product innovation on the hunt to $10B.
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Sales, Scale, Videos
Two successful SaaS leaders talk about product alignment, freemium models, having an open-source product and other topics in SaaS we all want answers to.
Early, Marketing, Podcasts, Product
Ep. #407: Trends are fleeting and hard to pin down. Or are they? Learn how you can leverage the science of trends and better understand market behavior. This episode…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Hiring, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Shiven Ramji, the Chief Product Officer at Auth0, shares tips on what to look for and expect out of a great VP+ of Product.
Blog Posts, Product
A little ways back, Fastly had a global outage. Now, this is rough enough for many B2B apps. But for core infrastructure, it’s even worse. Your customers simply go 100%…
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