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The Journey to the Billion Dollar Exit with ServiceMax and Emergence Capital (Video + Transcript)

The Journey to the Billion Dollar Exit with ServiceMax and Emergence Capital (Video + Transcript)

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 22, 2019

Hear how Dave Yarnold, CEO of ServiceMax, in partnership with Jason Green, General Partner and Founder at Emergence Capital, navigated the challenges that every CEO faces when building a billion dollar business. Also, don’t miss out on SaaStr Annual happening in less than one month!.   FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW Dave Yarnold–  CEO of ServiceMax Jason […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Career Growth & Advice, hiring, leadership, product, SaaStr Annual, saastr events, scale, videos

One Simple Rule on When to Build a “Custom” Feature

One Simple Rule on When to Build a “Custom” Feature

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 28, 2017

“Custom” features …  I feel this is perhaps the point founders get the worst advice of all. Especially from VCs, B2C folks, and folks that have never sold bigger deals and into the enterprise. One-off customization per se is bad. This is SaaS, not a services business. But Being paid a lot to build something […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged 1 - Stage, 2 - Topic, pricing, product, Product & Competition, scale

I Was Wrong.  NPS is A Great Core Metric.

I Was Wrong. NPS is A Great Core Metric.

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 29, 2016

  When I was a founder, I though Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) was a pretty dumb, Big Company metric.  There were a bunch of things I didn’t like about it: NPS is backwards looking.  It doesn’t tell you much about your prospects, the future, or your most recent customers.  I wanted to see the future. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Getting to Initial Scale, Metrics & Operations, product

The Low Viral Coefficient of SaaS, And Why That’s Just Fine

The Low Viral Coefficient of SaaS, And Why That’s Just Fine

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 13, 2015

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to get from $1m to $10m, $2m to $5m, $10m to $30m, etc. etc. One area we haven’t talked as much about is getting from say $100k in ARR to Initial Traction, or $1-$2m in ARR.  A bit, but not as much. The reason is while I […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged dropbox, echosign, Entrepreneurship, Getting to Initial Traction, Google Drive, product, saas, software as a service, startups, viral app

What job are people hiring your product to do?

What job are people hiring your product to do?

By Chris Yeh on October 3, 2013

I am a product guy, dating back to my days as a design student at Stanford. I’ve been a fan of Clay Christensen ever since “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” and even interviewed him for the student newspaper when I was a Harvard Business School student. Which is why I’m shocked that I hadn’t heard of Clay’s […]

Posted in Design, Marketing | Tagged product, psychology

Crappy Product + Great Market = Success

Crappy Product + Great Market = Success

By Chris Yeh on August 19, 2013

Before you build your insanely great product, find your great market.

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged markets, product

Engineers, Designers and Product Managers - A Point of View

Engineers, Designers and Product Managers – A Point of View

By Guest Authors on July 19, 2011

The “awesome triangle” that builds products consists of engineers, product managers and product designers. Here is a view of how each of the corners sees the other. Your comments, please…

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged designer, engineers, management, product, startups | 2 Responses

Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory

Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory

By Ben Kepes on February 13, 2009

The number of SaaS accounting offerings out there is growing by the day already the CloudAve AccountingThread runs to well over a dozen product reviews (as well as a bunch of guest posts and analysis pieces – check it out here). Despite this impressive showing, and perhaps indicative of the fact that the vendors are […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, api, erp, inventory, product, saas accounting, saasu, smb, stock | 1 Response

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