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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. And SaaStr Europa brings 2,500+ SaaS execs, founders, and VCs together to Europe every summer. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area. SaaStr is turning 10!

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. (And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). It’s OK.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? Rachel Hepworth: We knew we wanted to build the team because we’d already done enough in 2016, mostly before I joined, to know there was value there.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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Samsara S-1: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. Founded in 2016, Samsara has grown explosively from $119.9m 71% is the public SaaS company median. ARR per Employee.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. Get your tickets to the SaaS show everyone will be talking about! I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO.

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