Dear SaaStr: When is a Startup Ready to Raise Venture Capital These Days?
Dear SaaStr: When is a Startup Ready to Raise Venture Capital These Days? First, bear in mind, start-up fundraising has gotten a lot harder than it’s been the past few years. A lot harder. The latest Carta data summarizes it well: But while raising VC capital...
A Guide to Just Some of The Ancillary, Unofficial and Side Events at 2023 SaaStr Europa
Below is a list of ancillary events happening during SaaStr Europa, either hosted by SaaStr, one of our trusted sponsors or friends. Note there will be on-site parties every day, as well as an on-site pub, so there’s plenty going on at the venue as well!...
Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)
You’ll never truly understand how to lead a SaaS company until you’ve done it firsthand. But it always helps to get advice from someone with experience. Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap, shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of...
If Your VP Hasn’t Done Some Key Part of the Job by Day 90. They Never Will.
Recently, I met with a great SaaS founder doing about $1.5m in ARR. She was telling me about her VP of Marketing who, in the Bay Area, she was paying $95,000. I was a bit skeptical. Because that’s rather low for a true VP out here in the Bay Area (see typical...
125+ VC Funds and 250+ VCs Are Coming to SaaStr Europa 2023 to Meet You!!
Top Tier VCs Are Ready to Meet You. Get your first (or next) round of funding at SaaStr Europa 2022 with our returning Meet a VC program.
ChartMogul: SaaS Growth Rates Peaked in Q1’21 — And Have Fallen Ever Since. But They Did Rebound A Smidge in 2023.
So ChartMogul pulled together some nice data and statistics across its 2,100 SaaS customers and users for its 2023 Benchmarks report here. My favorite chart is this one that tracks how Top Quartile SaaS companies have grown the past few years: What it shows it what we...
New SaaStr Europa Speakers! Founders of LaunchDarkly & Insider, CMOs from Insider & Planet, G2 VP of Revenue Marketing, and VCs from Connect Ventures and byFounders!
Woo-hoo! https://t.co/C7z5FGoA9D 2023 passed 2022 in attendance already today! Next 4 weeks are the big run-up, so we'll see how much bigger 2023 is than 2022 But BIGGER 🙂 See you soon, London. 6-7 June. https://t.co/WvTJHzwOBZ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin ...
Acquisitions — If You Do Sell, Try to Make Sure It’s At a Local Maximum
Have a strong M&A offer? Not sure what to do? Look at this pic or a similar one Do you want it? If so, say No If not? Probably just say Yes pic.twitter.com/K483lKnyzd — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 21, 2021 So I wrote a version...
5 Interesting Learnings from Monday.com at $640,000,000 in ARR
So it’s tougher out there for many of us, but many Cloud and SaaS leaders are still growing at epic rates, even if not quite at the torrid rates of 2021. SaaStr favorite Monday.com is one of them. It’s crossed $640,000,000 in ARR, growing a stunning...
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