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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Customer Success, Growth, International Expansion, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosHow to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)
WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites &…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, International Expansion, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Videos10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)
Small and large businesses are often seen as competitors, with small businesses owning a fierce mentality of proving themselves as a player in the game instead of an underdog. But…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosA Founder’s Guide to Getting More Leads – ASAP (Video + Transcript)
Jason Green, Emergence Capital Founder, and General Partner moderates a discussion with Janine Pelosi, Zoom Head of Marketing and Online Business and Tolithia Kornweibel, Gusto Head of Marketing. Want to…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosFrom Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)
How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosThe Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)
Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35B in August of 2018. The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosIs Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)
Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Join…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Growth, SaaS Product Pricing, SaaStr Events, Videos8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)
WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are…
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Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosScaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)
If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)
David Cummings is the co-founder of the Atlanta Tech Village, Pardot which sold to ExactTarget/Salesforce.com, Hannon Hill, Rigor, SalesLoft (raised over $75M in capital), Terminus (raised over $25M in capital),…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Exit, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Videos5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)
How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosState of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)
Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Leadership, Metrics, SaaS Product Pricing, SaaStr Events, VideosMatching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)
SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Want…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Customer Success, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaS Product Pricing, SaaStr Events, VideosThe Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)
Work smarter, not harder. Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, VideosSmall Business Will Drive the Next Billion for SaaS with Kabbage (Video + Transcript)
Representing 98% of all U.S. businesses, 57% of all U.S. jobs and more than half of all non-farming GDP, small business is big business. As one of the most difficult…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Growth, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosFounder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)
When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Next comes the decisions to build or buy your infrastructure, DNS, monitoring, and analytics…
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15+ Due Diligence Questions You Really Should Be Asking Every VC You Meet
Q: What is the proper way to do due diligence on a VC firm? Here are the things IMHO and IME that are most important. First, if you want to do it right, you should diligence both (1) the firm and (2) the individual partner leading the deal. Importantly, these days,...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with SocialChorus, Trello, Gremlin, Terminal, Guild Education, Gitlab, and Pleo — November 15, 2019
Ep. 282: Michael Pryor, Co-Founder & CEO @ Trello, now Head of Trello Product with Atlassian following their recent acquisition. Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds...
The Average SaaS Unicorn Raises $370,000,000. And Bootstrapping is Rare.
We were recently asked: Q: Are there any examples of a unicorn startup that was bootstrapped? Of course the answer is yes. But I didn't have a sense of how many, and how the data might look. So I fired up the 2019 Forbes Cloud 100, which isn't all private unicorns by...
Why SMB Reps Struggle in the Enterprise. And Vice-Versa.
Q: How is low/mid-ticket sales different from enterprise sales? They are very, very different. If I had to boil down how to filter potential sales professionals based on just 1 controlling criterion, it would be deal size. Enterprise sales: Reps often hunt many of...
What is the hardest rejection you’ve ever had in sales?
What is the hardest rejection you've ever had in sales? The hardest rejection I’ve had in sales was around renewals. Especially ones I thought we really had earned. But still lost. In particular, in the early days of EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we had a particular manager...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zoom and Menlo Ventures — September 20, 2019
Ep. 266: Janine Pelosi is the CMO @ Zoom, the next-generation enterprise phone system. Prior to their very successful IPO, Zoom raised funding from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures and...
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