5 Awesome Things to Do at The SaaStr Annual
Ok we’re down to the wire on closing down registration for The SaaStr Annual Feb 9-11 at the Masonic Center in San Francisco. You can see all the 150+ amazing sessions and speakers here. >> Get the last tickets here. [For sponsors, the standard booths are all sold out, but we still have some creative […]
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 […]
Startup school: How to get unicorn money from a VC
For the right team, raising venture capital money can seem fast, simple, and easy. Here’s why it’s not that simple.
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 […]
Gadi Shamia, COO of Talkdesk: “8 Things I Learned After Joining a Hyper-Growth SaaS Startup”
One of the things I want to do between the ’15 SaaStr Annual, the SaaStr blog, and the ’16 Annual is do true, longitudinal, hands-on SaaS case studies. Not just one-and-done podcasts, posts, and the like. But to go further, to check in repeatedly with (x) very successful, (y) soon-to-be very successful, and (z) pre-successful SaaS […]
Aaron Levie of Box: “If We Just Sold to Silos-in-the-Enterprise, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business”
Missed the 2015 SaaStr Annual? We’ve got your back. We’ll do a series where we publish both the videos and full transcripts of all the sessions. First up is Aaron Levie of Box, where we had a wide-ranging, 45 minute deep dive on how Box scaled from $0 to $250m in ARR. As you’re reading […]
Help Us Pick 1 or 2 of the SaaStr Annual ’16 Speakers!
We’ll start to roll out the SaaStr Annual ’16 speakers in the coming weeks. It will be tough to top the ’15 speakers — from Aaron Levie to Bob Tinker, from Stewart Butterfield to David Sacks, from David Ulevitch to Parker Conrad, etc. etc. But we will find a way! We’ll also have three full […]
5 Tips To Make The Journey More Fun
Really, there’s nothing I’ve done in my life that is harder than being a founder CEO. Nothing. It’s 100x harder than being a VP. Even if the actual work is easier. It’s 100x harder than being a VC. Even if delivering top returns as a VC is maybe even harder than as a founder. But I […]
SaaStr Podcast on Time, Core Metrics and More on “Million Dollar Insights”
Do you podcast? If so, Cara Hogan of InsightSquared has kicked off a great SaaS podcast series of which I was fortune enough to participate. We talked quite a bit about the learnings on the SaaS Journey. Feel free to listen below or download on iTunes here. The draft notes and script I used (we went […]
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 […]
One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand
My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. What Jason has achieved in no time flat in VC is astounding. Without inventing the browser he has single-handedly created a personal VC brand on a shoestring. And as I’ve written about before – building a […]
“The Predictable Revenue Guide To Tripling Your Sales” by Aaron Ross and Jason M. Lemkin — Download Part 1 Now!
Ok, this will be fun. Aaron Ross and I are putting together “The Predictable Revenue Guide to Tripling Your Sales”. Aaron created and led the original outbound sales team at Salesforce and is well known to most SaaS entrepreneurs and executives. His last book on Predictable Revenue has become the key handbook for most SaaS founders […]
SaaStr on RedditAMA (“Ask Me Anything”) Tomorrow, Th 3/27, at 2pm PST
If you have time, tomorrow at 2pm PST I’ll be online at Reddit answering your questions on SaaS, or I guess, about just about anything. Since it’s called Ask Me Anything. I’ve set aside at least 2 hours so if you want to ask anything you haven’t gotten an answer to, please come by and […]
Eating My Own SaaStr Dogfood: Why I Invested in a Start-up With a Seeming 50+ Competitors
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 […]
Everybody Lies, 2013 Edition: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. 5000 (And SaaStr at Its One-Year Anniversary).
Today marks the One Year Anniversary of SaaStr. Our first post, on August 23, 2012 was Everybody Lies — Real SaaS Revenues in the Inc. 5000, where we looked at what some of the real revenues were for various SaaS companies. Inc. just updated the list, and for me at least, the learnings are different […]
