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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. SaaStr began in 2012 as a simple WordPress blog and a few answers on Quora sharing Jason Lemkin’s learnings of going from $0 to $100m ARR at EchoSign. SaaStr is turning 10!

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S. ” 2.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Lisa Zhang. Kandy Yeung. Anita Varshney.

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PNC SaaS Founder Meetup, Edition #4

The Angel VC

Jack Newton, co-founder & CEO of Clio, at the 1st PNC SaaS Founder Meetup in 2012 About three years ago we thought that it would be nice to organize a little meetup for the founders of our still quite young but growing SaaS portfolio.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. I’ve written this at least 80 times since 2012, but I’ll say it again because it’s true. Maybe we expect too much, even up to $10-20M ARR, and expect magic from product marketing.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

. “Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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