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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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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)
Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started. Is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosFreemium at Scale with Typeform CEO Joaquim Lecha + Christoph Janz of Point Nine (Video + Transcript)
Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosThe 3 Stages of Denial When Graduating Beyond Founder Led Sales with Mixmax (Video + Transcript)
Typically founders are the first salespeople. After all, it’s likely they know the product the best, and they can use customer feedback to measure market fit. However, at some point,…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosKey Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)
Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.
Blog Posts, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosA Q&A with Aaron Ross (Video + Transcript)
Join Aaron Ross, Predictable Revenue Co-CEO for a Q&A session. He discusses four areas you can make more revenue in your business, how to build out your sales team, how…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosBuilding a Sales Team that Can Go from $0-$50M, Learnings from Algolia (Video + Transcript)
Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript), from SaaStr Europa 2019. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, VideosHypergrowth, No Office and $100M in ARR with Invision and ARM Holdings (Video + Transcript)
Join Seth Shaw, Invision’s Chief Customer Officer alongside moderator and Arm Holdings CMO, Joyce Kim for a Q&A session. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, VideosScaling Outside Silicon Valley: Going from $0 to $60M ARR in 4 Years with Eric Rea, CEO of Podium (Video + Transcript)
Eric Rea, CEO of Podium shares how he grew the company he launched from his spare bedroom into one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the country. Want to see…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, VideosCrossing 100 Employees While Keeping Your Culture Intact with Liveramp and Periscope Data (Video + Transcript)
How do you create a collaborative, cohesive workplace that scales from your first employees to multiple offices in different locations? How can you ensure the heart of your company’s culture…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Sales, VideosUsing Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)
Congratulations! You’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Ashley…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosAddressing the Ugly Side of Growth: Good Problems Are Still Problems, with Tara Bryant of PIpedrive (Video + Transcript)
Globalization opens up a world of opportunities for sales growth. We often focus on the positive sides of growth—but what about taking a look at the ugly sides? Even what…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, SaaStr Events, VideosHow to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)
Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers, and CEO Austin Allred joined us for an incredible session at SaaStr Annual. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Videos, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)
Starting a company can be daunting, exhausting, and expensive, but with the right focus and idea – extremely rewarding; take it from Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike. In…
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Why do all the tech giants rely on “shadow forces” of temporary employees?
There are probably a multitude of reasons. But let me suggest one reason I learned when I was an exec in a F500 tech company: Headcount was mostly fixed for a year. But, Budgets were more elastic and flexible. Top tech companies might employee 10,000–30,000 or more...
When Not to Offer a Free Trial. Answer: When Your App Simply Can’t Pull it Off.
Lots of SaaS companies don’t offer a free trial — intentionally. A free trial is a bad idea if: Your product has a lengthy and/or complex deployment process. If it’s going to take 30–60 days to go live, a Free Trial will just lead to failure. That’s way too much work...
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 at a strategic partner where I did everything I could to...
What are the qualities of a good co-founder?
My list: Same values and commitment as you. No matter how smart you both are, you also have to share the same values and commitment. Are you both 100% all-in? Are you both willing to go 18–24 months before initial product market fit? Are you both willing to do what it...
What skills do you look for in an entry level sales person?
If you are a founder hiring salespeople to manage yourself (i.e., you don’t have a VP of Sales or other sales leader yet) … your #1 criteria should be trust. Specifically, does your gut and time with him/her say you can trust her with a lead. Leads and potential...
How difficult is to become a venture capitalist after 45?
It can be harder than you might think. The further you are along in your career, the easier it is to have the time, networks and personal capital to be an investor. No question. And it can take a decade or more to make any real money from investing. It’s hard to have...
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