Just Between Two CEOs: Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB and Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics
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.
Want To Win This Time? Don’t Dwell On The Last One
The best thing I’ve read in some time was the advice Nick Saban, the winning college football coach in history, gave to Alabama’s basketball coach who kept getting … close. Almost there. Alabama basketball kept getting upset, and the call went to...
Dear SaaStr: How Do You Build a Real Exit Strategy?
Dear SaaStr: How Do You Build a Real Exit Strategy? First, bear in mind acquisitions are relatively rare. The vast majority of startups will never get one acquisition offer, let alone a good one. Still, it’s not random. I’ve been through it twice as a...
A Technical Deep Dive Into Building AI Products for the Enterprise with Contextual AI’s CEO Douwe Kiela
If you work on anything related to Artificial Intelligence, you know we’re in the age of language models. But when it comes to Enterprises specifically, language models can change the way we work, and they have very big issues. At SaaStr AI Day, Contextual AI’s CEO, Douwe Kiela, deep dives into what it takes to build AI products for the Enterprise.
The Top 5 Pieces of Advice That Founders Don’t Want to Hear
I’ve had a few founders over the years think I was upset or frustrated with them. That’s on me — I can be direct at times. Maybe, often 🙂 But no great investor wants anything other than for their founders to succeed. Wildly. Every founder...
Dear SaaStr: When You Sold Your Startup, What Were the Downsides?
Dear SaaStr: When You Sold Your Startup, What Were the Downsides? When you sell: it’s not yours anymore; and your upside is capped. Start with Challenge #1. Ask yourself 4 “Are You OK With” questions: The name being changed? With the business being shut down in 2–5...
Raising Money After a Rough Patch? At Least Put Up 3 Good Months in a Row
So it may surprise some of you to learn that it’s not >that< hard to raise venture capital after a rough patch — if things reaccelerate. In fact, it’s pretty common. VCs know the vast majority of startups have a tougher time or two. But...
Dear SaaStr: Is it OK to Reschedule a Job Interview with a Founder?
Dear SaaStr: Is it OK to Reschedule a Job Interview with a Founder? It’s generally fine to reschedule an interview set up with a recruiting manager or similar. They’ll figure it out. That’s their job. But — be careful rescheduling a job interview with a founder CEO —...
SaaStr on My First Million Podcast: Reverse Engineering Your Way to $100,000,000+
Sam Parr was kind enough to bring me on to The First Million Podcast. He has a broader audience than just B2B so it we touched on more topics that usual, and it was a great convo: Pricing in the early days Why you have to get to $300k+ in revenue per employee When...
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