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10 Amazing Sessions on Bootstrapped Startups at SaaStr Annual 2018

10 Amazing Sessions on Bootstrapped Startups at SaaStr Annual 2018

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 15, 2017

One request from last year’s SaaStr Annual was to add even more content for bootstrapped (vs venture funded) startups.  We have!  We’d like to think 100% of SaaStr content and speakers applies to bootstrapped startups just as well as any other type — but there are differences.  So a few sessions to highlight: Ryan Smith, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events

SaaStr Tower unveiled!! The Annual has officially been upgraded!

SaaStr Tower unveiled!! The Annual has officially been upgraded!

By Jason M. Lemkin on September 14, 2017

We’ve already announced our first 70 speakers, and now we’re excited to share the biggest SaaStr Annual announcement of the year… we’ve upgraded the event venue for 2018! With ticket sales tracking at over 1.6x our 2017 numbers, our attendees are going to need a bigger and better experience than anything we’ve ever offered. SaaStr […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 5 - Feature, Events

Meet 1:1 with a top SaaS investor at SaaStr Annual

Meet 1:1 with a top SaaS investor at SaaStr Annual

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 20, 2016

Ok, we are SUPER excited about this one.  We’ve lined up 50 of the best VCs in SaaS for a full day of 1:1 meetings with 150 lucky startups attending the SaaStr Annual.  Each investor has committed to taking three 30 minute meetings on-site on Wednesday, February 10th.  We’re pretty sure it’s unprecedented.   But… This is an […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events, Uncategorized

Vote for Your Favorite US Startup

Vote for Your Favorite US Startup

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 13, 2016

Ok, the video submissions for the “Show Us Your SaaS: US Edition” are in and these startups NEED YOUR VOTES. Startups from all over the country have created videos telling you why they want to come to the SaaStr Annual. We’re giving away tickets to team in five US Regions. In addition to bragging rights, these teams will […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #SaaStrAnnual, Events, SaaStr, startups

SaaStr Video AMA This Thursday at Noon PST – “Lunch with Christoph Janz of PointNine Capital”

SaaStr Video AMA This Thursday at Noon PST – “Lunch with Christoph Janz of PointNine Capital”

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 14, 2015

A little while back, we did our first SaaStr AMA with Aaron Ross and BJ Lackland and it went pretty well.  You can see that first experiment below if you want. It tooks us a while to productize this, but now we’re kicking it off for real.   We’ll turn this into a “Lunch with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events

Mamoon Hamid of Social+Capital: Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded (Video + transcript)

Mamoon Hamid of Social+Capital: Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded (Video + transcript)

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 9, 2015

We’re publishing the full series of both the videos and transcripts from all of the SaaStr Annual 2015 sessions (check out the Zenefits and Slack/Yammer posts if you missed them). Today we’ve got Mamoon Hamid, Co-founder and General Partner at Social+Capital, an early stage Venture Capital firm that funds breakthrough healthcare, education, financial services, mobile, and enterprise software companies. Mamoon has […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged case studies, Events, SaaStr Annual Sessions, venture capital, video

Laugh, Vote, Change Lives

Laugh, Vote, Change Lives

By Jason M. Lemkin on September 22, 2015

These international startups need your help in making their SaaS dreams come true. Companies from all over the world (seriously, five continents!) have submitted their videos for our “Show Us Your SaaS” international startup competition in the hopes of winning tickets and travel to the SaaStr Annual. Now it’s in your hands, SaaStr fans. Who’s going to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events, Startup company

Zenefits: How We Hyperscaled Inside Sales

Zenefits: How We Hyperscaled Inside Sales

By Jason M. Lemkin on August 25, 2015

In a candid interview at SaaStr Annual 2015, Parker Conrad, CEO of Zenefits, and VP of Sales Sam Blond share their journey that started with a simple “What if…?” and how that led to an audacious goal: deciding mid-year to double their sales plan from $10M to $20M. They reveal the growth challenges of hyperscaling from 1 to 100 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events, SaaStr Annual Sessions, sales, scale, Zenefits

David Sacks (Yammer) Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust

David Sacks (Yammer) Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust

By Jason M. Lemkin on July 23, 2015

Missed the 2015 SaaStr Annual? We’ve got you covered! We’re publishing the full series of both the videos and transcripts from all of the 2015 sessions. Today we’ve got David Sacks, Co-founder of PayPal and Yammer, now COO at Zenefits, and Stewart Butterfield, President/Co-founder of Slack, where we had a wide-ranging, 40 minute discussion on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ARR, case studies, competition, Events, freemium, saas, saas revenue, SaaStr Annual Sessions, sales, Slack, yammer, Zenefits

Come to the First London SaaStr Summer Social!  Wed Aug 5th.  Yeah Baby!

Come to the First London SaaStr Summer Social! Wed Aug 5th. Yeah Baby!

By Jason M. Lemkin on July 20, 2015

SaaStr and our friends at U.K. VC firm Dawn Capital have teamed up to bring together up to ~200 SaaS founders and execs at the first London Summer Social! We’ll start with hand-crafted cocktails around 6pm.  Don’t be late. Around 7pm, we’ll do a 1-on-1 with PJ Bouten, CEO of Showpad on “Coming to America.  In […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Events

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the SaaStr Annual

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the SaaStr Annual

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 29, 2015

Ask anyone who attended the SaaStr Annual last year and they’ll tell you how truly electric the energy was, how they left with a notebook full of learnings, fired up and filled with inspiration.  But that sounds like hyperbole.  I mean, it’s still a conference, right? Talking about the utterly scintillating topic of SaaS?  And yet, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Events

SaaStr Google Hang-out AMA Today at Noon PST with Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue) and Lighter Capital

SaaStr Google Hang-out AMA Today at Noon PST with Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue) and Lighter Capital

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 25, 2015

Ok we’re running a fun experiment today.  We’ve done a few AMAs before, including this awesome one on Reddit a while back here. Today we’ll try our first one live with video, this one on Google Hangouts.  We’ll do it together with Aaron Ross (and we can give you an update on our book together […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Events, video

Join Us Live on FounderLine Today at 5pm PST

Join Us Live on FounderLine Today at 5pm PST

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 27, 2015

At 5pm today, grab a beer or a bourbon or a cappucino (you know you’ll be ready for a break by then anyway) and join me on FounderLine.  You can ask questions live and/or Tweet them in. Click here just before to join us, and/or submit any and all questions here ahead of time: Submit a […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Events

Come to the SaaStr Annual and Make a Week of It

Come to the SaaStr Annual and Make a Week of It

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 25, 2015

It’s not often you get an opportunity to join 5,000 of your peers in SaaS in one location for a week.  Sure we gather at Dreamforce, wave as we run across Moscone to our next customer meeting or maybe catch up for 5 minutes at one of the 17 parties that night, but rarely do […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged #SaaStrAnnual, Events, hubspot, mark suster, SaaStr, San Francisco, Upfront Ventures

Come to BoxDev This Wednesday.  The Content Looks Awesome.  I’ll Be There.

Come to BoxDev This Wednesday. The Content Looks Awesome. I’ll Be There.

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 20, 2015

This Wednesday, I’ll be moderating the Founder’s Session at BoxDev ’15 with Rick Morrison (Comprehend), Ann Johnson (Interana), Nader Mikhail (Elementum), Sarah Nahm (Lever), and Shan Sinha (Highfive).         While that’s reason enough to come, I think the agenda looks pretty awesome.  The Innovate track includes a Fireside Chat with Marc Benioff (and one […]

Posted in Business | Tagged boxdev, conferences, Events

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