Dear SaaStr: How Much Should I Talk About the Competition in a Pitch Deck?
Dear SaaStr: How Much Should I Talk About the Competition in a Pitch Deck? The best startup pitch decks almost all have great competition slides. Why? Because the best CEOs: Respect the competition. Even if they plan to destroy them. Know the space cold. Even in the...
Lead Rich vs. Lead Poor Environments
So last month, two companies I’ve invested in: both crossed $5m in ARR both also grew at the exact same rate last month MoM both also basically have the same ACV (~$50k) both have about the same number of folks on the sales and marketing teams, respectively both...
How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)
Discover the best ways for a seed-stage startup to pitch to investors and successfully fundraise from Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel.
Top SaaStr Content for the Week: How To Reverse-Engineer a $100M Exit Plus the Top Videos and Blog Posts
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of April 22nd, 2024.
Why Founders Leave After Acquisitions
Why do founders leave after their companies are acquired? There are many nuanced answers, but in the short and medium term, it’s incentives. Acquirers use 3 incentives to get founders to stay: Sticks. If you leave, you lose X% of the consideration. Acquirers try to...
Raising Your First VC Round? 7+ Tips for Managing Your VCs Afterwards
So you raised your first real VC round? Congrats! Mostly. It’s all Feel Goods right after a round closes. It can seem like nothing has changed but the bank account. But in reality, a lot has changed. Expectations have changed. So a few thoughts if you...
After I Sold My Company, I Couldn’t Make Decisions Again for a While
What’s the toughest part of running a startup? A partial list: Recruiting. This is always hard, forever. Co-founder Conflict. Hopefully, you don’t have this. If you do, boy it’s hard. Almost running out of money. Happens to almost all of us....
How Shopify Implements AI Across Sales and Product with Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures
Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems.
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Actually Start a Successful SaaS Company?
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Start a Successful SaaS Company? I think there are approximately 2 ways to get a new SaaS app off the ground: Option 1: Hustle into The Enterprise. In almost every category of software, there are gaps. Painful gaps. Generally, several gaps that...
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