9 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google
Former member of the M&A team at Google, Brett Goldstein, now Founder at Micro and Co-Founder & CEO of Launch House Ventures, shares the nine things founders should know about getting acquired. It’s a common dream for founders to hope their startup be acquired one day, but what is a company, like Google, really looking for in their acquisitions? And what should all founders know about the process if the time comes?
Dear SaaStr: What Successful Startups Were Launched While The Founders Worked 9 to 5?
Dear SaaStr: What Successful Startups Were Launched While The Founders Worked 9 to 5? I’m not aware of any huge successes in SaaS that were active side projects while the founders worked at different companies. But there are a bunch that were side projects at the same...
A Checklist: 10 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire a Sales Rep
Never hire anyone in sales that doesn't care about money You'll see — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 24, 2025 So you’re hiring your first few sales reps in the early days? Before you have a great VP of Sales? It’s an interesting...
Yes, Everyone Has To be 2x as Efficient As They Used to Be. It’s Just Math.
How The World Works: 2020: Grow Like Crazy, Burn Doesn't Matter2024: Grow Almost as Fast, But Be Wildly Efficient e.g., https://t.co/vwnFotOlYn Now at $800,000,000 in ARR, growing 35% pic.twitter.com/7EvYbQRjH6 — Jason ✨????SaaStr.AI Sept 11✨ Lemkin...
Top SaaStr Content for the Week: New Podcast with Sapphire Ventures, New Live Workshop Wednesday and lots more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of March 10th, 2023.
A Look Back: Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Harry Stebbings and Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft
At the first SaaStr Europa, Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Unsurprisingly, it was one...
The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn
So recently I caught up with a great founder of a beloved product. They rocketed to $20m ARR, and then … growth radically slowed. To 15% a year. From 100% growth at $10m ARR, to 15% at $20m ARR. That’s rough. But rapidly slowing growth has happened to...
How to Price and Package AI SaaS Products with Unusual Ventures
With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? Sandhya Hegde, General Partner at Unusual Ventures to share her best practices and trends for pricing and packaging AI SaaS products.
Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum
“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 Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Check that out here. This week...
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