Learn about the most important SaaS metrics for founders in 2023 with the CEOs of the most metric-oriented company, monday.com and the founder of SaaStr.
A ways back during lockdown, we had some of the best founders in SaaS join us for SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap to buck people up. It was great, and incredible 20,000+ attended digitally. But it was a short downturn! SaaS stocks actually rapidly recovered, even...
Dear SaaStr: Do CEOs of big companies answer and read emails by themselves, or their assistant? Are they working on a PC at all or are they just attending meetings? This is such a great question. I remember wondering the very same thing when my last startup was...
As a VP of sales at early stage SaaS companies, what’s your best advice for reducing churn rate? A few things that always work to drive down churn in the early days — and later: Make sure you have a strong Head of Customer Success … whose #1 goal is reducing...
There’s a product I do want to buy, but I don’t have time now. Probably in October. However … Every week I get a truly amazing, truly helpful piece of email content from them. Truly valuable. Really helps remind me to buy in October. — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin ...
Dear SaaStr: Why Do VCs Leave Their Firms to Start Their Own Funds? Let’s step back a minute. Most VC firms aren’t equal. Usually, the founding partners or the more senior partners control both (1) most of the profits, the “carry” and (2) own the management company,...
So one of our recent themes on SaaStr is that while things are still tougher for almost everyone that the go-go days of 2021, in at least some ways, they seem to have bounced off the bottom and are at least getting easier than before: Top Cloud and SaaS stocks are up...
So we have a rule at SaaStr Annual — No Repeats. We don’t want speakers back at least for 2 years, ideally longer, and we want content that is fresh and unique to us. https://t.co/5gjWmKLRrD 2023 Sep 6-8 tracking to: 53% women speakers61% less represented...
So I’ve been introduced to a few up-and-coming sales folks recently and the pattern goes like this. I get a response back fast: ”The role sounds interesting but I’ve got an offer pending right now for $120k OTE” Hmmm. Do you know how many folks at that sales org hit...
