Top SaaStr Content for the Week: SaaStr Annual 2023 Party Guide, SaaStr’s CEO, Cockroach Labs’ CEO, and lots more!
The top SaaStr content you might have missed for the week of August 27th 2023.
Dear SaaStr: How are Funds Invested by Venture Capital Firms?
Dear SaaStr: How are Funds Invested by Venture Capital Firms? It varies of course, but roughly for bigger funds: Funds tend to invest in 20–40 startups over 2–4 years. Big and tiny funds may do more, but in general, this is the sweet spot. Funds use about 40% of their...
How to Get Me To Do Your Podcast — And Probably Other Busy People, Too
So I get a lot of podcast requests, and I think podcasts are great. They are an incredible way to communicate with your customers and prospects. Even if the absolute number of listeners and viewers is low, the quality is often high. Yet, folks tend to do the ask...
Mailchimp’s ex-Head of Data Platform: “Data Doesn’t Have to be Hard — Three Data Myths and How to Bust Them”
Data Doesn’t Have to be Hard: Three Data Myths and How to Bust Them with Mailchimp with John Humphrey, former Head of Data Platform Product at Mailchimp John Humphrey, former head of data platform product at MailChimp and current principal at mfact, joined SaaStr live...
Dear SaaStr: What Should I Do When VCs Ask About The Competition?
Dear SaaStr: What Should I Do When VCs Ask About The Competition? Embrace it. This is your chance to shine. "How to Stand Out in a Competitive Market: Learn from Your Competitors" pic.twitter.com/F0QV04oIEY — SaaStr (@saastr) March 25, 2024 Not Truly...
The Next Great SaaS IPO is Officially Coming: Klaviyo
So we’ve been saying for a while that the back half of 2024 could be good for SaaS IPOs, we just needed a few of the break-out winners to IPO to get the engine rolling again. The SaaS IPO window really closed in late 2021 with HashiCorp as the last great one to...
Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (Video +SaaStr Podcast 682)
Bad advice is everywhere these days. Hundreds of thousands of experts are telling you how to succeed in SaaS. Many of those voices are incredible, yet terrible bits of advice pops up again and again.
On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling.
SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares the 10 worst pieces of SaaS advice, excuses, and mistakes founders make, and what to do instead.
When an Investor Puts Their Career On The Line For You
So VCs are seen by most founders these days as almost commodities. Folks with money that you get money from. And maybe that’s a good thing, in many ways. I see fewer and fewer founders care if VCs make money, and the Go Go days of 2020 and 2021 are probably part of...
Dear SaaStr: As An Employee, How Do I Negotiate My Compensation in an Acquisition?
Dear SaaStr: As An Employee, As an acquired employee, How Do I Negotiate My Compensation in an Acquisition? Unfortunately, as a non-CEO, non-founder of an acquired start-up … you have almost no ability to really negotiate. Especially below the VP level. Overall,...
SaaStr on 20VC: Mega Funds Will Come Back, Why Markups Have Corrupted VC, RIFs and More with Jason Lemkin and Rick Zullo
We were fortunate enough to return to 20VC to help support the new format with multiple guests, and the deep dive on venture was a good one Per Harry: “VC markups have corrupted VC. We will see a rise of mega-funds once again and RIFs should be an embarrassment...
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