My App Stack: Rik Haandrikman, VP of Marketing at RevenueCat
“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. Last time we had a great one...
The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue
Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? Let me list some of the ones I see most often going from say $1m to $10m in ARR: Chasing the Shiny Penny. One of the biggest mistakes I see after $1m in trying...
Can You Still Get Acquired for a Decent Price if Growth Has Slowed or Even Stopped? Yeah, Sometimes
So the other day a CEO reached out to me about advice on an acquisition. They wanted to do three things: Enter a space they had no product or customers in today; and Add on at least $10m of extra revenue for the year; and Not add too much to their burn rate. So this...
Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Pivot?
Dear SaaStr: When Do You Know It’s Time to Pivot? I think in SaaS, it’s when you have a handful of customers, and they are happy, and it’s been 9+ months … and you are growing, but slowly. If you have no customers, it’s not really a pivot or tilt, it’s a...
The #1 Thing To Do When Times Are Harder
I know it may not be what you want to hear But the answer to how to get through tougher times is generally to work even harder At least for a while — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 11, 2023 So as we’ve talked about many times...
Doubling Down: Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners
“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Lucy Deland, Co-founder & General Partner at Inspired Capital. Check that out...
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn?
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn? You don’t. Instead, you drive it down. Each quarter. You can’t eliminate churn. It’s a fact of business life in selling a product with recurring revenue and thus recurring sales. You can hide churn (e.g., by signing multiyear...
5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $2.4 Billion in ARR
So we’ve probably covered HubSpot more than any other SaaS and Cloud leader on this 5 Interesting Learnings series, but there’s a good reason for it: First, HubSpot is a lot like most of us. It sells sales, marketing, support and more tools. And second,...
AI Day is Streaming Live TODAY – Here’s how to tune in
Building off the popularity of our AI Day at last September’s SaaStr Annual, we’re bringing it back online this March on Wednesday, March 27th for a completely live, digital event that will bring the global SaaStr community together with the brightest innovators in Artificial Intelligence for a day of digital content. (And don’t worry we’ll be bringing it back to the Annual this September too.)
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