by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, Leadership, Scale |
Yext and Roam founder, Howard Lerman, shares the 10 tactical, unconventional cheat codes that helped scale Yext to $400M.
by Amelia Ibarra | Oct 23, 2020 | Early, Marketing, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing |
Mikael Cho, CEO of Unsplash shares his lessons learned from starting Unsplash as a side project and growing it to a market leader, and disrupting an industry of giants like Shutterstock, Getty, and Adobe Stock with a free business model.
by Amelia Ibarra | Sep 13, 2020 | Fundraising, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic...
by Amelia Ibarra | Sep 4, 2020 | Early, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Sales |
Ep. 370: As organizations race to achieve relevance and a competitive edge in the digital era, automation is fueling the fight. Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and...
by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 28, 2020 | Hiring, Podcasts, Product |
Ep. 368: Success in the Enterprise means ensuring consumerization is a part of your strategy. Scott Belsky, CPO, EVP of Creative Cloud at Adobe will explore key tactics to focus on the user experience. This episode is sponsored by Linode. SaaStr’s...
by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 15, 2020 | Customer Success, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. This dynamic trio...
by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 7, 2020 | Customer Success, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. From strategies in...
by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 2, 2020 | Early, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts |
Ep. 357: Therese Tucker breaks through the dogma behind what it takes to build a successful tech company. With stories based on the founding of BlackLine — to the company’s successful IPO – you’ll learn the most common myths behind success and why they may be holding...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jul 24, 2020 | Early, Fundraising, Podcasts |
Despite the global pandemic, seed investing remains hyperactive amongst VCs. Satya Patel of Homebrew shares his expert advice on how to raise seed capital in 2020.
by Amelia Ibarra | Jul 17, 2020 | Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts |
Ep. 353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter. SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features one of...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jul 10, 2020 | Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales |
Ep. 351: Chris O’Neill (Google, Evernote) shares his lessons from previous downturns and how to chart a new course for growth in today’s changing market. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jul 3, 2020 | Company Culture, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Sales, Sales |
Ep. 349: Startups can get messy. Especially in growth. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter. SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features one of SaaStr’s best of the...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jun 19, 2020 | Early, Fundraising, Podcasts |
Ep. 344: Given that so many VC pitches are over Zoom now, we thought it would be worth sharing the things it’s easy to get wrong when pitching investors. Pitching VCs is like anything. You’ll get better at it over time. Later, you’ll even get great at it. Once you...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jun 19, 2020 | Fundraising, Podcasts |
Ep. 343: On today’s episode, Christoph shares his five tips for fundraising during a pandemic. Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jun 12, 2020 | Company Culture, Early, Marketing, Podcasts, Product |
Ep. 342: On this episode of the SaaStr podcast, our CEO, Jason Lemkin, chats with Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on Distributed Teams and Building a Cloud Product. Zapier is a global remote company that allows end-users to integrate the web applications they use. Although...