After a period in 2021 known as “The Party”, where salespeople earned more while working less, businesses are shifting focus from measuring effort to emphasizing revenue generation. As the market bounces back, learn 5 ways to get back to hitting revenue targets with Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex.
Dear SaaStr: If You Just Received a $10m-$15m Funding Round, What Should You Actually Use it For? If you’ve raised $10m-$15m, I’m assuming you are somewhere between $2m and $10m in ARR (revenue). The most important thing you can do at a high level is to go hire Great...
So the IPO market sort of, kind of, reopened a bit in 2023 — after being closed for 2 years for the most part. Klaviyo, Instacart, and ARM all 3 great leaders, IPO’d in a short window, unfortunately, to a bit of a quiet thud. None really traded up, and...
So I see a lot of folks give the same piece of advice, which I do think has a lot of truth in it: “Be careful with titles. They’re almost impossible to fix later.” Almost every successful founder has a story where they made someone a VP or even a...
So AppFolio is a big vertical SaaS+ success story I frankly don’t know as much about as I should. There are several big leaders in property management software, and AppFolio is one of them. It’s doing well, especially in today’s markets. At $660m...
Dear SaaStr: Should I Call Myself a Owner, Founder, or CEO? CEO. Although, perhaps say it in a neutral tone, with no bravado. I always thought the title was a bit silly when running tiny start-ups. But I missed an important point: Customers, Prospects, Recruits and...
Once you hit Initial Traction in SaaS, say that first $1m-$1.5m in ARR, you’ll finally find something that works. One channel, often. E.g., partnerships. Or Facebook ads. Or an app store. Or a specific outbound strategy. Or blogging, or podcasting, or...
The CIO and SVP of IT at Freshworks, Prasad Ramakrishnan, shares five ways organizations can leverage AI to solve problems and grow, including improving: user experience, onboarding, data analytics, GTM analysis and faster email communication.
Dear SaaStr: Why Do Great Employees Get Fired? I’ve hired a lot. Lost a bunch, but fired very, very few. But I’ve watched some tough ones, some truly potentially epic talent get fired. This seemed to happen for two different (though related) reasons in...
After the recent events at OpenAI, I thought it might be a good time to update this classic SaaStr post on “revolts”. My lesson learned: when the full team revolts (or a big part of it(, you have to act. You may not be wrong — but they are “right.” — Jason ed....
