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Is Growth Bad for Startups? Feat. Think3 (Video + Transcript)

Is Growth Bad for Startups? Feat. Think3 (Video + Transcript)

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 31, 2019

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 make 15x on their investments, founders aren’t realizing that overgrowth is actually dangerous for their companies. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, growth, saastr europa, scale, videos

Why Culture is a Key Criterion for Raising Capital and Driving Growth with Idinvest partners (Video + Transcript)

Why Culture is a Key Criterion for Raising Capital and Driving Growth with Idinvest partners (Video + Transcript)

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 17, 2019

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, VC at Idinvest Partners, talks about culture […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blog Posts, Company Culture, hiring, Human resources, leadership, saastr europa, saastr events, scale, videos

Building Great SaaS Companies Everywhere with SaaStr and Point Nine Capital (Video + Transcript)

Building Great SaaS Companies Everywhere with SaaStr and Point Nine Capital (Video + Transcript)

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 10, 2019

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 Europa, we’re doing it bigger and better in […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blog Posts, growth, International Expansion, leadership, saastr europa, saastr events, scale, videos

9 Things First-Time Founders Get Wrong About The Journey

9 Things First-Time Founders Get Wrong About The Journey

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 9, 2019

Want to start your own SaaS company? Do it.  It is hard, harder than you can imagine.  But if you do it right, and for real — it can last 30+ years. If you haven’t done it before, though, here’s my list of the top 9 things founders get wrong before they start: It almost […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blog Posts, Early

The $1 Billion+ ARR Club

The $1 Billion+ ARR Club

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 4, 2019

It’s time to redefine “Unicorn”.  It’s not about a billion+ valuation, as crazy high as that seemed 5 years ago. Now it’s about $1b in ARR. The above chart is a rough attempt to estimate ARR from some of the top Cloud/SaaS public companies.  The estimates will all be off / wrong a bit, but […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Blog Posts, scale

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