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Startup school: How to get unicorn money from a VC

Startup school: How to get unicorn money from a VC

By Michael Krigsman on July 30, 2015

For the right team, raising venture capital money can seem fast, simple, and easy. Here’s why it’s not that simple.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, CXO, linkedin, marketing, Quora, SaaStr

Eating My Own SaaStr Dogfood:  Why I Invested in a Start-up With a Seeming 50+ Competitors

Eating My Own SaaStr Dogfood: Why I Invested in a Start-up With a Seeming 50+ Competitors

By Jason M. Lemkin on December 16, 2013

I was asked on Quora why I recently invested in Pipedrive. I thought I would share the answer here, because it ties together so many themes on SaaStr, from Lead Velocity Rate, to Room at the Bottom, to Getting from Initial Traction to Initial Scale. I’m making a bet here that everything I know, and […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Pipedrive, Quora, saas, SaaStr, startups, Storm Ventures, zendesk

The Troll Economy

The Troll Economy

By Chris Yeh on August 30, 2013

Q: What do you get when journalists get paid by the number of pageviews their stories generate? A: The Troll economy. Not to sound like a grumpy old man (though I am) but what passes for journalism has sunk to a new low.  As far as I can tell, headlines are now chosen based on […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged businessinsider, businessmodel, Elon Musk, outrage, Quora, SocialMedia, steve jobs, Troll

We’re Having a SaaStr Social on September 5th on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park — and You’re Invited!

We’re Having a SaaStr Social on September 5th on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park — and You’re Invited!

By Jason M. Lemkin on August 2, 2013

Having crossed 4,000 Followers on Quora (and thousands more on SaaStr.com), we’ve decided it’s time for a SaaStr Social, where we can get together in-person. The date’s been set: Thursday, Sept 5. We’ll be out on the beautiful decks at 2440 Sand Hill Road, overlooking the rolling hills of the valley, drinking Don Draper-inspired Old Fashioneds […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Don Draper, Entrepreneurship, eventbrite, Quora, saas, Sand Hill Road, services, startups, Storm Ventures

Social Media is Really Tough in China.  At Least There is Quora.

Social Media is Really Tough in China. At Least There is Quora.

By Jason M. Lemkin on July 1, 2013

SaaStr is in Shanghai for the month of July.  While I have internet access and an iPad … it’s tough to stay connected with the domestic SaaStr audience. Why? Well, first almost everything is blocked:  Facebook, Twitter, WordPress (as an app and URL — individual sites with custom URLs sometimes barely work, sometimes not at […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged censorship, china, facebook, google, Quora, Shanghai

If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause.  Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause. Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 30, 2012

Ok I know this post and its title seems like the most obvious thing in the world. But empirically, I can tell you isn’t.  Over the past 12 months, I’ve met with friends/colleagues/partners/ex-customers who are total rockstars and working on starting a company.  I mean, total rockstars.  (Yes, I know that’s an abused team). What […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged founders, Quora, saas, software as a service, start ups, Startup company, Team building, teams, Uncategorized

4 Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up

4 Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 16, 2012

There’s been one huge change in “entrepreneurship” IMHO over the past 10 years. >> No, it’s not that it’s cheaper than ever to do a start-up.  That’s not even true.  In the old days, when software came on a disk, or a CD-ROM, it was even cheaper.  You didn’t even need a single server to […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Lotus 1-2-3, Quora, saas, scaling, Social network, software as a service, start up, techcrunch | 2 Responses

A Little Less About Pricing.  A Little More About Deal Size. Please.

A Little Less About Pricing. A Little More About Deal Size. Please.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 31, 2012

It’s not that this is rocket science. It isn’t. But if you haven’t lived it, understand that Deal Size is the single most important factor in your SaaS business model. Because it will completely define how you do sales and marketing, and to a just somewhat lesser extent, prioritize feature development and product/engineering.

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged deal size, intuit, marketing, pricing, Quora, sales, salesforce.com, startups

The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community

The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community

By Mark Suster on September 10, 2012

You know the old saying about trust … “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your own reputation. You need to constantly ask yourself whether your actions in rapidly scaling an online community are […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged facebook, Quora, Reddit, Spotify, Tech Market Analysis

How is AWS Failing to Service Webscale Applications?

How is AWS Failing to Service Webscale Applications?

By Randy Bias on November 16, 2011

I’ve made the argument on numerous occasions that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essentially the quintessential cloud computing offering, particular for infrastructure.  To boil down my argument again, it’s essentially: Cloud computing is an entirely new model for IT This model displaces ‘enterprise computing’ (or ‘client/server’) just as that model displaced ‘mainframe computing’ “Enterprise clouds” […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Quora

The Controversial First Role to Hire After Your A Round

The Controversial First Role to Hire After Your A Round

By Mark Suster on October 28, 2011

I’ve thought a lot about team construction of early stage companies. I was once asked on Quora what my idea startup team would be. I wrote the following: “I like to invest at the seed or A round.  My ideal team is simple: Assuming 6 people 1. 5 engineers 2. 1 CEO who doubles as […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, guy kawasaki, Quora, Startup Advice, startups, venture capital

It is not Facebook that needs to worry about G+ it is Quora

It is not Facebook that needs to worry about G+ it is Quora

By Dan Morrill on August 15, 2011

For those of you who have been playing around with G+ over the last couple of days, what started off as an interesting way to share the ephemera of our daily internet lives has turned into some of the best question and answer sessions I have seen outside of Quora. For those who do not […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged facebook, Metasearch, Question Answering, Quora, Searching, seattle, Techwag Basics, twitter, Yahoo Answers

5 Techniques To Deal With Spam: Open Letter To Twitter

5 Techniques To Deal With Spam: Open Letter To Twitter

By Chirag Mehta on June 15, 2011

I love Twitter, but lately, I am getting annoyed by Twitter spam and I’m not the only one. I don’t want Twitter spam to become email spam. I don’t want to whine about that either, so I spent some time thinking about what Twitter could do to deal with spam. Consider this an open letter […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged iphone, linkedin, Quora, spam, Spambot, twitter

Too much Social Me-dia going on

Too much Social Me-dia going on

By Martijn Linssen on May 3, 2011

Hat tip to Sameer Patel for the tweet that led me to this: @lehawes Folks taking the Me in Social Me-dia too literally 🙂 I’ve noticed quite a bit of this lately. A few weeks ago, I unfollowed 20% of my follows because they either RT’ed themselves or their friends, and vice versa. Seeing a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, General, Marketing, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, Empire Avenue, facebook, information, Klout, maturity, Quora, social media, twitter | 2 Responses

The Enterprise Social Goodness

The Enterprise Social Goodness

By Guest Authors on April 18, 2011

Ever since the word “social” became a famous consumer token that is overused and overhyped every minute of every day, the business world started wondering about how to build an enterprise social network that had all the right and relevant component…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged flicker, google, HCM, hr, linkedin, Quora, social, Stumbleupon, twitter, youtube

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