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Last Minute Tips & Tricks for The SaaStr Annual!

Last Minute Tips & Tricks for The SaaStr Annual!

By Jason M. Lemkin on February 6, 2017

It’s almost here.  The 2017 SaaStr Annual. Just a few extra last minute tips: It Will Be Packed.  We’ll have ~10,000 nominal attendees which realistically means about 5,000 on-site at any given time at the Bill Graham (not everyone will be there at all times, etc).  The Bill Graham is a super fun venue, the […]

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

The Top 10 Worst Pieces of SaaS Advice

The Top 10 Worst Pieces of SaaS Advice

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 18, 2017

Advice is very context sensitive, so take this post with a grain of salt. But for me, it’s “Blue Monday” … so I thought I’d take a stab at the Top 10 Pieces of Classic SaaS Advice … that in my experience at least are usually Just Plain Wrong. The advice and thinking that leads you […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, Early, exit, growth, Sales & Customer Success, scale

Why The LinkedIn Acquisition is So Important to SaaS

Why The LinkedIn Acquisition is So Important to SaaS

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 15, 2016

So, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $25.6 billion dollars.  That headline shocked all of us the other day.  But if you step back, it’s not that impressive, the raw number itself. After all, as a public company, LinkedIn was worth $32 billion just a few months earlier, and had been on one heck of a run […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, exit, Fundraising & Exits, IPOs & Exits, m&a

Finding harmony between advice and self-interest

Finding harmony between advice and self-interest

By Derek Pilling on January 31, 2014

I just wrapped one of those calls where I had the opportunity to give advice to an entrepreneur that runs counter to my short-term interests. In this case, it is a story of a first-time entrepreneur who has built a $7 million revenue business and is wrestling with the decision whether to take growth capital […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur, exit, Growth Equity, lessons learned | 1 Response

Start-Up Success in SaaS?  You Have to Bend the Odds In Your Favor.  Some Thoughts on How to Do It.

Start-Up Success in SaaS? You Have to Bend the Odds In Your Favor. Some Thoughts on How to Do It.

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 8, 2013

Mark Suster put together a presentation (and a blog post) a few weeks ago that has really stuck with me me. I never, perhaps intentionally, looked at the odds of achieving a solid exit in a start-up. Actually it’s just this one slide that has really stayed with me … It turns out the odds of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged co-founders, echosign, Entrepreneurship, exit, m&a, mark suster, Meebo, Pinterest, saas, startups, Uncategorized | 2 Responses

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 12, 2012

I don’t know about you, but I really can’t stand case studies.  They always seem either contrived (forcing contrasts in companies that aren’t really there) or else too hypothetical, because we know which way things really worked out in real life (Case Study: Company A had to decide whether to do action X or Y.  […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged echosign, Eloqua, ExactTarget, exit, Initial public offering, ipo, m&a, marketo, merger, Pardot | 3 Responses

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