by Team SaaStr | Jul 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Videos |
As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get best price tickets here!!! This session is particularly fun to look back on. In 2017, Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad were all...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Early |
Almost 10 years on, I remember every minute That's Founder Life pic.twitter.com/rHEOkCNfFd — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) July 9, 2021 A lot of early posts at SaaStr were about my learnings co-founding Adobe Sign / EchoSign. That was a while ago...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog Posts, Early |
Do you need a co-founder? We took a look at this a while back on SaaStr, and found that roughly 20% had a “core founder” or solo founder. What I mean by a core founder is someone that owned 5x or more equity than the next founder. E.g., companies like...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog Posts |
Reg is open for FREE SaaStr Money 2021 next week!! The top sessions will likely change a bit by the time we get there, but here are the Top 5 session so far. Just click on the links / images to sign up for any of them!! #5. “3 Ways Payments Drive Growth for...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, Leadership, Scale, Tech News |
The second SaaStr post ever, way back in late 2012, was “Everybody Lies: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. 5000”. It was a fun one, analyzing the only public source of data on just how much ARR a lot of SaaS companies had. No one had IPO’d, no one really...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership, Q&A |
Dear SaaStr: What is the meanest thing that venture capitalists can do to founders? Most VCs won't really give up on an investment if they know the founders are truly giving it 100% But if they sense otherwise, they check out fast — Jason ✨????SaaStr.AI Sept...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership |
Dear SaaStr: What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in your career? My list: Slow down big decisions, speed up the rest. I’m not the first to say this, but boy it’s correct. You may think you only have 24 hours, or 5 days, or a week to make a huge...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog Posts, Metrics, Q&A |
Q: As a SaaS company should you include professional services in your ARR number? Include professional services in your total revenue run rate. But — break it out. Here’s a great example from Qualtrics: You can see here at a $723m run-rate, that $535m is from software...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jul 5, 2021 | Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts |
Ep: 413: Join four-time Founder and CEO Auren Hoffman as he breaks down how businesses can become the right model for explosive growth, emulate their strategy, and join the path to Unicorn potential in eight simple, hand-made steps. This episode is an excerpt...
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 4, 2021 | Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising |
This was my first venture investment Took 10 years to $1.5B exit by Vista But could be worth $10B by year 15#itcompounds pic.twitter.com/qElNH78hl8 — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) July 2, 2021 One of the earliest posts I did on SaaStr was back in 2013 when...
