7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin
What is the top advice entrepreneurs never hear that they need to hear? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares 7 pieces of wisdom for founders.
The #1 Reference Check You Just Have to Do
You may think you are an amazing judge of character. You still need to do reference checks. Real ones. — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 30, 2024 So startup folks can be a quirky bunch. And that often means, they’ll break a...
New SaaStr Annual Speakers Alert: CROs of Rippling, Checkr and DeepL; CBO of Stripe; Bessemer’s State of the Cloud: AI Edition
We’re getting there! 2024 SaaStr Annual is Sep 10-12 in SF Bay! We’re adding 2 final batches of A+ speakers. This week, our new speakers include: Matt Plank, CRO @ Rippling Yasir Motiwala, Head of Americas @ DeepL: “Scaling from 0 to 40 Sales...
The Biggest Challenge With Vertical SaaS: Your Sales Team Has to Be Domain Experts
Probably the biggest challenge in vertical SaaS I see is scaling the sales team. It’s pretty easy to hire SaaS sales execs to sell … a SaaS sales product. That’s what they know. It often takes little training, and they already have a lot of domain expertise. ...
Dear SaaStr: What Do VCs Really Look For?
In B2B, it’s pretty simple. Can the company get to $200m+ in revenues in 8–10 years? Sort of … period. That’s kind of it. That’s the bar to building something that can truly IPO or being acquired for billions. The Average SaaS IPO Takes 12 Years If it can .....
A Pretty Good Week in SaaS: Shopify, Datadog, Abnormal Security, Palantir, Atlassian All Crush It
So this was another Pretty Good Week in SaaS: #1. Shopify Blows Out the Quarter, Accelerating at $8B+ ARR A bit of strong news from the leader in e-commerce platforms. Shopify is re-accelerating at $8B ARR. It’s growing 21% now and predicting even faster growth...
This Week at SaaStr Fund: Algolia in Cloud 100, RevenueCat Launches App Growth Conference, AI Fuels Growth At Gorgias
A big week at SaaStr Fund! As a reminder, the SaaStr Fund is investing $170,000,000 in seed and late-seed investments. $750k-$4m checks for SaaS, Cloud and B2B startups at from $10k-$200k MRR. More here. Some great news this week: #1. Algolia and Legacy Investment...
How, When and Why to Launch a Second Product: A SaaStr Classic Deep Dive with Dharmesh Shah, CTO HubSpot
So just when HubSpot CRM was scaling up, we grabbed Dharmesh Shah, CTO and co-founder of HubSpot, to talk about what it really takes to build a second product. Fast forward to today, and HubSpot CRM is now at $600m+ in ARR (!). Wow. It’s a great time to take a...
Dear SaaStr: In a Difficult Situation, Is It Better to Quit or Be Fired?
Dear SaaStr: In a Difficult Situation, Is It Better to Quit or Be Fired? The best outcome by far is to talk about it calmly, give plenty of notice, and quietly agree to move on. In 30 days, in 10 days, in 1 days … whatever is best for the company. Even if you really...
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