Meet 1:1 with a top SaaS investor at SaaStr Annual
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 […]
Vote for Your Favorite US Startup
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 […]
SaaStr Video AMA This Thursday at Noon PST – “Lunch with Christoph Janz of PointNine Capital”
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 […]
Mamoon Hamid of Social+Capital: Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded (Video + transcript)
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 […]
Laugh, Vote, Change Lives
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 […]
Zenefits: How We Hyperscaled Inside Sales
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 […]
David Sacks (Yammer) Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust
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 […]
Come to the First London SaaStr Summer Social! Wed Aug 5th. Yeah Baby!
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 […]
Top 5 Reasons to Attend the SaaStr Annual
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, […]
SaaStr Google Hang-out AMA Today at Noon PST with Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue) and Lighter Capital
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 […]
Join Us Live on FounderLine Today at 5pm PST
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 […]
Come to the SaaStr Annual and Make a Week of It
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 […]
Come to BoxDev This Wednesday. The Content Looks Awesome. I’ll Be There.
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 […]
Ok, We’ve Shut Registration Down at 1,850 Folks for The SaaStr Annual. What You Need to Know.
Phew. Ok well we went a bit over capacity, but we’ll have 1,850 SaaS founders, CEOs, execs and entrepreneurs at the (first?) SaaStr Annual this Thursday in San Francisco at The Regency Ballroom. A few things to know, if your coming, and if you’re not: > If you’re coming to the day sessions, come early […]
Why Did Microsoft Acquire Yammer?
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Microsoft has officially announced that they acquired Yammer for 1.2 billion dollars. I’ve had several discussions around this over the past week or so, ever since the rumors first started circulating. It’s an interesting move and I think it makes sense. Yammer has just under a million paid […]
