Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023.
$100M ARR doesn’t happen overnight. Founders are responsible for ensuring a startup always has enough money, setting the vision for the company, and driving things forward. It seems simple enough, but it’s not always easy, as founding CEO and co-founder of...
Dear SaaStr: What Percentage of Customers Choose Prepaid Annual Billing Versus Monthly? Answer: The percent that want to. Annual billing is a wonderful thing, done right: In the early and middle days, it’s magical for cash flow — assuming it’s prepaid on a...
As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. At the very...
In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, continues a mini-series on founder-led sales with Colin Zima, founder and CEO of Omni. Omni is trying to build the next-generation business intelligence (BI) platform. In a year’s...
Scaling a company comes with all kinds of hiccups and failures. Sometimes the best way to avoid hard-to-fix mistakes is by hearing how other people flubbed it while they were scaling. In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Weds at 10 a.m. PST, Nick Mehta, the...
Former CEO and founder of Yext and current CEO and founder of Roam, Howard Lerman, shares successful strategies and lessons learned building two successful startups with Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, in this week’s episode of CRO Confidential. Typically, sales...
Product-led growth is a hot topic. As a startup, you want people to love your product, plain and simple. Getting them to love it is more complicated. At SaaStr APAC 2023, Matt Vethuis, the VP, APJ at Amplitude, shared his take on how to bring power to your products...
How did the largest product-led growth enterprise company in the world find success? In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, Cameron Deatsch, CRO of Atlassian, shares his wisdom with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond. Atlassian is trading at over $40B with revenue...
Dear SaaStr: Should We Charge for Pilots and How Much? Charge for any true pilot. If you don’t charge, it’s not a pilot. It’s an extended demo. Now, that’s better than nothing. It’s something. But a free demo is fraught with issues. Most importantly, the feedback you...
Dear SaaStr: What Should Be The Priorities of SaaS Founders During The Early Stages? Some ideas: Find a truly great co-founder. Slow it down until you do. There is too much to do in SaaS — sales, customer success, product, engineering, demand gen, etc. If you don’t...
RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for, and I learned a few interesting...
Across their 100,000 customers, HubSpot has endured an unforgettable past few years. Their customers desperately need to make sense of this new world – not only how to survive massive digital acceleration but also high inflation and other forms of political and...
No pressure, but the pricing model you choose can make or break your SaaS business. But it can be difficult for founders to figure out the right structure for their business. Fortunately, other successful SaaS leaders have experience with this challenge. In a special...
Startups often begin with a bootstrapping phase with little to no outside investment. Many, however, will eventually switch to the externally funded phase because bootstrapping isn’t for every business. Some startups need constant cash infusions to achieve growth....