SaaStr Europa: Stop Wasting Your Life. Know When It’s Time to Sell Your Company (Video + Transcript)
Andy Tryba, Founder & CEO at Think3, talks about his thoughts on exits and why you should sell your startup. He suggests that the more times you sell (or exit in general), that you’ll be able to start another startup and make it more successful than the...
What You Need to Raise Your Series A (And Why It Isn’t $100K MRR) Feat. Blossom Capital (Video + Transcript)
A common myth is that you need to make $100K MRR to go for your series A. But Ophelia Brown, Founder at Blossom Capital, is challenging that way of thinking. She founded Blossom Capital to focus on Series A regardless if you have hit that $100K MRR threshold. Here are...
How to Use M&A as a Tool to Accelerate Growth (Video + Transcript)
Teddie Wardi’s, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, session at SaaStr Europa talked all things M&A. While most of us assume M&A happens late stage, Teddie gives a list of reasons why you should use M&A in your growth strategy. Key takeaways:...
Is Growth Bad for Startups? Feat. Think3 (Video + Transcript)
Alex Western, Managing Director at Think3, talks about the problem he has seen consistently across SaaS startups that have VC funding – overgrowth. Overgrowth normally happens because of misalignment in VC initiatives and founder initiatives. Because VCs want to...
The Risky Business of Raising Series B with Adara Ventures and UserZoom (Video + Transcript)
Raising Series B is no easy feat for any startup. Liz Fleming at Adara Ventures talks about the current state of Series B and interviews CEO at UserZoom, Alfonso de la Nuez, on his journey. UserZoom bootstrapped to 12M ARR and later raised a $34M round in 2015. Hear...
Why Culture is a Key Criterion for Raising Capital and Driving Growth with Idinvest partners (Video + Transcript)
What are you doing to build and maintain the culture in your startup? Or has culture been put on the backburner as you have scaled? Well, it’s time to put culture at the forefront of your startup if you are looking for more funding in 2019. Jonathan Userovici,...
Building Great SaaS Companies Everywhere with SaaStr and Point Nine Capital (Video + Transcript)
Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO at SaaStr and Christoph Janz, Partner at Point Nine Capital, had an opening session at SaaStr Europe earlier this year. They talk about the state of SaaS, pros and cons of SF vs Europe and more. Also, if you didn’t attend SaaStr...
Why Diversity is Key to High Performing Companies Big and Small with Notion Capital and Topia (Video + Transcript)
Jos White, Founder at Notion Capital, interviews Brynne Kennedy, CEO and Founder at Topia at SaaStr Europe earlier this year. After raising over 100 million, Brynne has built Topia to 200 employees with 8 offices globally. She talks about her early days at Topia, how...
How to Structure Your Sales and Team to Scale in Enterprise with Accel & Shift Technology (Video + Transcript)
This is a must-watch for those who are trying to scale their sales reps and organization for enterprise sales. Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel, interviews Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology. Jeremy talks about his organizational structure across multiple...
The Perfect Time to Raise: Product, Revenue and Scale with Dawn Capital (Video + Transcript)
Evgenia Plotnikova, Principal at Dawn Capital, goes through the perfect time you should ask for funding both when you are building and scaling your product. She debunks 3 common myths about funding. Myth 1: You always need a VC. She says she spends half of her time...
5 Things Most VCs Won’t Tell You with August Capital (Video + Transcript)
David Hornik, General Partner at August Capital, says all the taboo things that most VCs won’t talk about. With his background as an attorney with Jason Lemkin, to present day VC, he shares some of his stories and lessons he learned along the way. Also, if you...
Best Practices in Customer Success in 2018: Maximizing Revenue, NPS and Happiness (Video + Transcript)
This session with leaders in the customer success space discusses best practices for your customer success teams in 2018. They talk about when to hire your VP of Customer Success, qualities to look for in your team and how to ask for feedback at the best times in the...
Build A Culture That Scales: Lessons from Algolia, Glassdoor’s Highest Rated SaaS Company
This fireside chat with, Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO @ Algolia and Edith Harbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO @ Launch Darkly, discusses building a culture that scales. In the early days, Nicolas mentions how Algolia’s culture continued to break as he scaled. As of today,...
How to Expand Internationally – Lesson From VP of Growth @ LinkedIn (Video + Transcript)
At SaaStr Annual earlier this year, VP of Growth at LinkedIn, Aatif Awan, had a session on expanding internationally. Has your SaaS startup gone global? If so, what tips and tricks do you feel helped you get to that point? His 6 step framework can be applied to any...
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