by Amelia Ibarra | Jun 7, 2024 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Product, Scale |
1Password’s Chief Product Officer, Steve Won, walks through the 3 Key Principles for Building a Successful Multi-Product Roadmap.
by Amelia Ibarra | May 21, 2024 | Company Culture, Early, Growth, Human Resources, Leadership, Workshop Wednesdays |
How do you build a culture of openness and collaboration as your company scales? Founder and CEO of Guru, Rick Nucci, and previously founder of Boomi, on track to IPO soon at $200m+ ARR, shares how to run all-hands meetings the right way. Guru is about a decade old...
by Amelia Ibarra | May 16, 2024 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales, Scale |
SaaStr Founder and CEO, Jason Lemkin, and Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, sit down with Casey Hill to discuss the future of B2B SaaS in 2024 and beyond.
by Faith Storey | Apr 14, 2024 | 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.
by Faith Storey | Mar 31, 2024 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Videos, Growth, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We’ve had a ton of great HubSpot content over the years but you may have missed this one, and it...
by Team SaaStr | Mar 9, 2024 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Videos |
At the first SaaStr Europa, Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Unsurprisingly, it was one...
by Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Metrics, Sales, Sales |
2024 — the year we’re now fully in the New Age of Efficiency. Sales folks have to truly bring in 4x-5x what they take home, marketers are on budgets that seem too tight, and customer success has been transformed into agents of upsell. A few ideas on how...
by Amelia Ibarra | Nov 25, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales, Videos |
After a period in 2021 known as “The Party”, where salespeople earned more while working less, businesses are shifting focus from measuring effort to emphasizing revenue generation. As the market bounces back, learn 5 ways to get back to hitting revenue targets with Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex.
by Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources |
After the recent events at OpenAI, I thought it might be a good time to update this classic SaaStr post on “revolts”. My lesson learned: when the full team revolts (or a big part of it(, you have to act. You may not be wrong — but they are “right.” — Jason ed....
by Jason Lemkin | Nov 14, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Hiring, Q&A, Sales, Sales |
Dear SaaStr: What’s The #1 Way to Motivate a Sales Team to Sell More? The best motivation for salespeople is seeing other salespeople at the same company making a ton of money. This: Proves (x) it can be done — even when sales feels hard, and Challenges everyone...
by Jason Lemkin | Nov 9, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Hiring, Marketing, Marketing, Q&A |
Dear SaaStr: What are some of the “ultimate sins” in marketing and sales and success in SaaS in the early stages? My list of some bad ones: Sales: Hiring any reps you wouldn’t buy from. This never works out in the early days. Later, once you have a strong...
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 17, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Videos |
Learn what it takes to scale Customer Success at every stage of growth — from $1M to $300M+ in ARR — with founder and Managing Partner at Success Venture Partners and former VP of Customer Success at Motive.
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 13, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Videos |
How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth.
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Videos |
Discover what it takes to scale beyond founder-led sales on your path to Series B with Atomico Partner Laura Connell.
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Sales, Videos |
Even though Legal and Sales can have different interests, creating a positive working relationship is possible. In an enlightening SaaStr Annual session, G2 General Counsel Eunice Buhler and VP of Enterprise Sales Colin Danaher share how they have found ways to forge a collaborative, respectful, and productive relationship between the revenue and legal teams.