Ok, we heard you US teams. You asked for your own video contest, you got it. Today we’re officially kicking off our “Show Us Your SaaS: US Edition” video competition. And if you happened to miss the international video contest we ran a few months...
Looking to work at and with the largest community of SaaS founders and execs in the world? Then we want you! We’ve added a few great folks to the team, now we need to add a fun, committed, driven sales leader to the team: Sales Executive — Sponsorships...
Hopefully you went to Dreamforce this year. My big take-aways? Salesforce is reinventing itself again, and it was inspiring and cool to watch. On a technical side, Einstein (ML+AI) is an early push to the future of the Salesforce platforms. Even cleverer though to...
We’re expanding at SaaStr! Right now we have 3 open, and very important, jobs: Sales / Business Lead! We have a $5m+ revenue target to hit over next 12 months in sponsorships across events and media. Want to sell SaaStr event and media sponsorships to the best...
Hooray! We’ve launched the new SaaStr Annual ’17 website here. While it’s a ways off, we already have 1,800+ founders, VPs and VCs signed up, and we expect 10,000 on site by the time we get to February 7 of 2017. We’re incredibly proud of how...
By Tony Knopp, CEO & Co-Founder of InviteManager, which makes planning your client entertainment easy. Building an enterprise SaaS is a challenging proposition. Doing so with a services business attached can be even more interesting. Here are seven things...
The other day, we celebrated the 4 year anniversary of our first SaaStr blog post (Everybody Lies) with an update — Everybody Lies, The 2016 Edition. I thought it might be useful to reflect on where we are, how we got here, what’s worked, what...
We went around the world to FIVE continents to track down start-ups that wanted to show us (& the almost 5,000 that voted) their very best SaaS in hopes of winning a trip to SaaStr Annual this February. It was super fun to watch the entries roll in for the “Show...
Guest Post by If there is a word that inspires visions in SaaS executives of overlooked opportunities for success, it’s churn. Churn is perhaps the metric on which the growth of the enterprise most hinges. What constitutes an acceptable churn rate has been debated...
Welcome to Episode #44! Andy Sparks is the Co-Founder and COO of Mattermark. He was previously the Technology Editor at Referly before the company pivoted to become Mattermark. Andy joined the Referly team via an acqui-hire of his company, LaunchGram, by Referly in...
In 2016, most companies attending the SaaStr Annual sent 2 or more employees, and those that did are already buying up the 2017 team packs in droves! If the epic learnings from past speakers like Aaron Levie, Dharmesh Shah, Lew Cirne, Byron Deeter, Tomasz Tunguz (or...
Welcome to Episode 39! Cindy Padnos is the Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures where she focuses on all things Enterprise/B2B cloud and mobile computing sectors. Prior to founding Illuminate in 2009, she was one of three investment professionals at...
It’s time. For a deep dive on all things MRR, ARR, L4M, CLTV, NPS, CSAT, and more. At the Beach!! Or at least close to it. Rincon Venture Partners (Jim Andelman and John Greathouse) and SaaStr will be hosting the 2016 L.A. Summer Social! 2 great sessions of...
We know there are SaaStr fans in all corners of the world with more than 32% of 2016 SaaStr Annual attendees came from outside the US (and from 47 countries!). We also know that coming to the SaaStr Annual is an investment. Sure, the hard dollar costs are part of it,...
Welcome to Episode 33! Villi Iltchev is a Partner at August Capital and prior to joining August, Villi was a member of the leadership teams at Box and Lifelock. Before that Villi was a Vice President at Salesforce where he led the strategy and acquisitions teams,...