10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors
At least up until $10m-$20m ARR or so, If you haven't gotten your investor updates out by the 10th of the month, VCs assume it's not good If you haven't gotten your investor updates out by the 15th of the month, VCs assume there's trouble — Jason...
10 Simple Ideas to Help Manage the Burn
So, for many of us in SaaS, these are still some of the best of times. The Cloud is bigger than ever, CIOs are buying more than ever, and SaaS is still on a roll. But public stock prices are way down, and venture capital is much tighter than it was outside of AI...
Hiring a Great VP of Sales: The New, Latest Edition with Jason Lemkin (Video + Pod)
Ready to elevate your sales game in 2024? Join Jason Lemkin as he updates SaaStr’s classic insights on hiring the perfect VP of Sales and navigating common pitfalls.
Do Angel Investors and Seed VCs Ask for Detailed Budgets Before Investing?
Dear SaaStr: Do angel investors or seed venture capitalists normally ask for detailed budgets including cash flow analysis before investing, even though most of the numbers will be pure speculation? Many do. Why? Even if you are very early stage, It’s really one of...
SaaStr Annual 2025 is May 13-15 in SF Bay!!
So you may have noticed there are now a ton of events in September. This year SaaStr Annual was the week before both Dreamforce and HubSpot’s Inbound, as well as Oracle’s big event. As well as many other super cool events, from The All In Conference to Acquired...
The 3 Types of Hires You Just Can’t Make Today: The Jaded, The Broken, and The Done
There are 3 types of hires you may be tempted to make now, but you just can’t: The Jaded, The Broken, and The Done They’ve always existed, it’s just there are so many more folks with great LinkedIns and experiences in these categories in SaaS....
5 Interesting Learnings From HubSpot at $2.5 Billion in ARR
So we’ve covered HubSpot a lot on 5 Interesting Learnings, but there’s a good reason — it’s the SaaS leader the most like most of us. Most of us use HubSpot. Most of us are building products in some category HubSpot plays in, from sales to...
Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. Should I Take It?
Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. Should I Take It? Should you sell your startup if you get a good M&A offer? For years, while I pretended to be neutral on this question, I’d still quietly root for founders not to sell...
HubSpot and Shopify Are Both Going More Enterprise. But Also — More SMB.
So two of the great leaders in SMB SaaS, Shopify for e-commerce, and HubSpot for sales, marketing and more, are going more upmarket: HubSpot 100+ seat deals are up 55% Shopify now gets 31% of its revenue from “Plus” or its bigger brands and more enterprise...
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