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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

By Mark Suster on July 27, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. Think about it: You start with nearly no money, you bring on some co-founders and if […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged google, Spotify, startup lessons, Thomas Hobbes, whatsapp

Is 5x the New 2x in SaaS?

Is 5x the New 2x in SaaS?

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 3, 2014

Back in 2012, when the SaaStr audience was about 1/30th of what it is today, I wrote a post that a lot of folks didn’t like:  ”Workday is Growing 90% this Year.  At $250m in ARR.  So Wake Up:  You Probably Need to Do A Lot, Lot Better.“ In fact, it was the first post […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged 5x, echosign, Entrepreneurship, growth, saas, software as a service, startups, venture funding, whatsapp, workday

Don’t Ever Make Anyone “Head of Sales / Marketing / Engineering / Whatever” in SaaS

Don’t Ever Make Anyone “Head of Sales / Marketing / Engineering / Whatever” in SaaS

By Jason M. Lemkin on February 24, 2014

A few months ago, I gave a great SaaS Founder CEO a Gift. A real gift. This founder CEO was at about $1m in ARR, doing well, but with only a smidge of angel funding and limited resources. And I gave him an insanely great VP of Sales candidate.  An amazing fit for his company, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged echosign, Entrepreneurship, hiring, saas, sales, software as a service, startups, whatsapp

What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

By Chris Yeh on February 21, 2014

Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion has dominated all news in Silicon Valley for the past 48 hours.  Yesterday, I was at a urinal, and a group of people asked me what I thought.  Most of the discussion seems to be around whether Mark Zuckerberg was crazy to pay so much for a relatively […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged businessmodel, facebook, google, m&a, valuation, whatsapp | 2 Responses

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