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The other day I was at a demo day and talked to a bunch of smart, young founders. A bunch of them were building products in categories I knew well, and I was very interested in what their new take was on existing categories. I asked them why they would win. They often gave somewhat…
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In a recent webinar hosted by Oracle, Reggie Bradford, 3x Entrepreneur and Senior Vice President, Startup Ecosystem & Accelerator at Oracle, chats with SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin about how to maintain the enthusiasm and pace of a startup when you aren’t a startup anymore. Here’s a hint: it takes more than bean bag chairs and free food. You have…
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We’re one week closer to SaaStr Scale! A few things to share with you this week about Scale on the 29th. . . BOOK A BRAINDATE WITH THE MENTOR OF YOUR DREAMS Since we launched Braindates at Scale last week, the list of mentors prepared to have 1:1, 1:4 (small group), and 1:8 (super braindate micro sessions)…
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I wrote the post below in 2014 when Algolia was at $10k a month in MRR. Today, they are at $200m+ ARR. Interesting to look back in time here — Jason, ed. January 2024 …. Much of SaaStr involves sharing my learnings, mistakes, improvements, etc. as a founder CEO that lived the journey from $0 to…
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SaaStr 411: Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua on Effective Product Design, Customer Development Processes, and Evolving Management Philosophies

IPOs seem like a dime-a-dozen these days in B2B/SaaS/B2D, but Elastic was one I wanted to learn a bit more about. Many of you likely use Elastic and/or Algolia to power search on your sites and applications. A few interesting learnings for me at least: TAM is What You Make It. Elastic says its initial…
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If you work on anything related to Artificial Intelligence, you know we’re in the age of language models. But when it comes to Enterprises specifically, language models can change the way we work, and they have very big issues. At SaaStr AI Day, Contextual AI’s CEO, Douwe Kiela, deep dives into what it takes to build AI products for the Enterprise.

Dear SaaStr: I’m Being Recruited by a Startup That Just Raised $5m. How Do I Vet Them? First, there’s probably something there if they raised $5m. That’s never as easy at it sounds. It means the early traction looks good, or the team looks strong, or both. At least, usually. But of course that’s not…
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As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2024 in London on 4-5 June and SaaStr Annual 2024 in the SF Bay Area on September 10-12, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Back at the first SaaStr Annual, in…
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Discover a simple framework for growth teams to address and solve growth problems and bottlenecks at scale with VP of Growth Lavanya Shukla at Weights & Biases.