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How to Avoid Being Replaced as CEO by Your VCs

How to Avoid Being Replaced as CEO by Your VCs

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 13, 2016

Worried about a bunch of VCs replacing you?  You should be a little worried, probably. Just the other day, a CEO that I know fairly well was fired by a VC.  Strange thing was, the VC didn’t talk to the rest of the board.  Who didn’t agree.  So he got un-fired. Awk. Ward. CEOs getting […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Fundraising & Exits, growth, The Journey, venture capital

The Difference Between Very, Very Good Founders.  And Truly Great Founders.

The Difference Between Very, Very Good Founders. And Truly Great Founders.

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 10, 2016

I consider myself a “Magna Cum Laude Minus” founder.  Nothing I’ve done has ever failed (although I’ve almost failed many times).  I returned 5x to my investors — twice.  Look, that’s pretty good.   And I think I was a pretty good CEO.  But not the very, very best. And I didn’t really know what […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2 - Topic, The Journey

Don’t Let Them (Your Best Employees) Go

Don’t Let Them (Your Best Employees) Go

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 26, 2016

Now that a handful of next-generation SaaS companies have IPO’d, you can start to see the turnover more viscerally that you can observer at quieter, privately-held start-ups.  You see the VPs moving on.  6-12 months after almost any IPO, and especially after one that doesn’t create a slew of millionaires … folks leave.  It’s a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Early, growth, Hiring & Operations, scale, The Journey

The Lead Plateau You May Hit Just As It Gets Good.  How to Plan Around It.

The Lead Plateau You May Hit Just As It Gets Good. How to Plan Around It.

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 16, 2016

Many SaaS companies hit an “organic lead plateau” at several phases: When you get Really Big, at some point, every company in the world is an Opportunity.  Box, Salesforce, etc. really don’t have many new opportunies to hit up.  Instead, they have to work them better.  This can hit you around $50-$80m-$100m ARR or so. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Early, Getting to Initial Scale, Getting to Initial Traction, Traction & Scale | 1 Response

Raising More Than $20m in Venture Capital?  It’s All Good — If You Are Even Better Than Box

Raising More Than $20m in Venture Capital? It’s All Good — If You Are Even Better Than Box

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 9, 2016

For the past few years, it’s been pretty confusing trying to understand what’s going on in SaaS fundraising.  Starting in ’13 through mid-’15, rounds dramatically grew in size and pace, and dozens of unicorns were minted.  Things then slowed down dramatically in Q1 ’16, as the SaaS public markets crashed … and then recovered in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 2 - Topic, Fundraising & Exits, IPOs & Exits, m&a, The Journey, venture capital

When the Player-Coach is Just That. And No More.

When the Player-Coach is Just That. And No More.

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 4, 2016

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about not screwing up that VP of Sales hire.  Done right, it will accelerate your company to the next level.  Done wrong — you can lose the better part of a year, and half of your last round of capital. And we’ve talked a lot about the trade-offs in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, 5 - Feature, Building a Sales Team, Getting to Initial Scale, Hire VP Sales, Hiring & Operations, Hiring & Retention, sales, Sales & Customer Success, scale, Traction & Scale

At $50k in MRR, Running Out of Money Is No Longer an Excuse

At $50k in MRR, Running Out of Money Is No Longer an Excuse

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 27, 2016

We’ve talked a lot about SaaStr on the challenges in getting from nothing to that first $1m-$1.5m in ARR, “Initial Traction”.  That is takes longer than you think.  That if you get 10 customers, you can get another 10, 100, and so on. There’s a particular moment in time I want to focus on here […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Early, Getting Going, saas-startups, The Journey

SaaS Financial Plan 2.0 (from Christoph Janz)

SaaS Financial Plan 2.0 (from Christoph Janz)

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 11, 2016

Recently on SaaStr, we did an important post on a simple Trailing Four Month Financial Model.  This is one of my best hacks.  If you average the growth rate over your last four months, and keep updating it — you’ll have a real-time model that keeps you honest.  More on that here. But what about just […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Getting to Initial Scale, growth, Hiring & Operations, Metrics & Operations, Traction & Scale

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