Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Craft Ventures’ Founder & General Partner, QED’s Partner, Y Combinator’s Managing Director and lots more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of September 17th 2023.
Is It a Good Idea to Give the First Customers of a New SaaS Startup a Discount to Get Them On Board?
Dear SaaStr: Is it a good idea to give the first customers of a new SaaS startup a discount to get them on board? First, it is a good idea to give the first customers a fair price so that price isn’t an issue. So you close them, get the reference account, get the...
Building a Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham (Video + Pod)
Freshworks is a successful public SaaS company that has a humble beginning in the small town of Chennai, India. Founder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham shares five big bets that paid off as he scaled this multi-product company.
The Top 10 Mistakes First Time B2B Founders Make (Updated)
When you’re about to hire someone with an amazing logo on their LinkedIn, That worked somewhere so amazing, so great, so similar to what you want to become Just ask yourself: -> Would we still hire them without that logo? If not, do not make hire And … you gotta be...
How The Strange and Odd World of Financial Accounting Drives Tech Acquisitions and Investments
So first a caveat: I know just enough about financial accounting to be dangerous. Second caveat: I’m way, way oversimplifying things. But with that out of the way, let’s talk just enough about financial accounting to explain why Big Tech Companies both...
25,000+ Connections Made at 2023 SaaStr Annual!!
So we’ll share much more on 2023 SaaStr Annual soon, and start editing, transcribing and publishing many of the sessions ASAP. For now, you can watch tons of them streamed here on our YouTube. The heart of Annual now is meetings and connections, on-site,...
How To Actually Succeed in SaaS: AMA Part 1 with SaaStr Founder And CEO Jason Lemkin
SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares what it takes to be a successful SaaS startup in today’s economy, the SaaS trends of 2023, and more.
5 Interesting Learnings from Samsara At Almost $1 Billion in ARR
So Samara is that vertical fleet-and-more-management-and-more SaaS company that has just roared out of the gate since its quiet IPO. Things did get harder for them about a year ago, but growth has since reaccelerated. And efficient growth at that. Fast forward to...
The Top 18 SaaStr Articles on Excelling at Work
Practica put together its guide of the top SaaStr articles to excel at work. Many are my favorites too, and some you may not have seen. I think this is some pretty helpful reading here, a good slice of some of the most tactical insights: Got 100 Customers? Believe...
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