SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The worst reality, which is also part of what makes entrepreneurship so visceral — is the true feeling of Failing With 100% Responsibility. It often doesn’t leave you until $20m, $30m ARR, or sometimes much later, even in SaaS. Dear SaaStr: What Are The Worst Realities of Being An Entrepreneur?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Entrepreneurship takes grit and determination, and leading a successful company can feel like a Herculean effort. Finklestein, who has dealt with anxiety in his life, stresses that it’s important for founders and SaaS leaders to be honest about mental health and not to bottle everything up for appearances.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

After an impressive career in SaaS, SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin knows a thing or two about growing business in today’s competitive climate. Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo recently interviewed Jason about his experience and advice for SaaS leaders. . Stay the Course: Avoid Serial Entrepreneurship. CEOs, Stop Taking on Too Much.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Our agenda is a reflection of the ecosystem.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell. These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? Build a killer product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2023

The new year has officially begun, and since the markets have become more unpredictable over the past few years, SaaS founders are likely wondering what the VC landscape will look like in 2023. It’s no secret –– last year, SaaS founders were feeling the pressure of inflation, rising interest rates, and a compressing public market.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today? We had a great one last time with Lucy Deland, Co-founder & General Partner at Inspired Capital. Check that out here.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 24, 2019

On this week’s podcast, we talk with Cristina Vila, Founder of Cledara, which was crowned the Best SaaS Startup of 2018 during SaaStock18 in Dublin last year. . The aptitude for entrepreneurship only increased from there, and on June 30th, 2018, Cristina left the startup she had been working for in order to start her own.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

As we showed you in the list of SaaS companies coming out of Latin America, the region has no shortage of SaaS superstars. It was SaaS that they were looking at. SaaS Investments: Pipefy, HeyDoctor. SaaS Investments: Gupy, idwall, meetime, Qulture rocks, Social Miner, and Teravoz. How did this come about, though?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2017

In the Wide Lens , Dartmouth Entrepreneurship professor Ron Adner explores the risks associated with innovation. Those can be upstream of the company: the necessary technologies to offer a SaaS service like Amazon’s S3 or EC2. Execution risk is the obvious one.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When SaaS companies grow, they want to grow fast. That’s why it’s important for SaaS marketers to be able to build and test campaigns quickly to see what actually works. You can hear from Andrea herself in the video below, or keep reading to see some of the real campaign examples that helped Thinkific grow like a dream SaaS business.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 27, 2024

He is a serial entrepreneur and successful investor with 20+ years of experience in founding, building, and investing in early-stage SaaS startups. The role of conviction and intuition in entrepreneurship and investing. Discussed in this Episode: Learnings from growing Braze from 0 to IPO.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2021

His first tech startup was called MyCase, a SaaS product that, “keeps all of your important case details — documents, contacts, calendars, emails, tasks, invoices — in a single, organized location.” The transition from criminal defense law to SaaS started as a “scratch your own itch” kind of thing.

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Entrepreneur - SaaS

APRIL 21, 2017

How hiring our first salesperson led me to recognize that cluelessness is at the heart of entrepreneurship.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 12, 2023

They’re embracing entrepreneurship and it’s clear this region will be (and is already) a major player in the global economy. The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years. In business and government, leadership matters! Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s a question, “Is there a directory for seed, pre-seed, VCs investing and enterprise SaaS?” Ramon asked, “Do you invest in pre-revenue remote teams working on SaaS products?” “How receptive are angels/super angels right now to SaaS enterprise IT tools?” specifically Brazil?”

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ChurnZero

MAY 6, 2022

podcast to talk about his pragmatic approach to entrepreneurship, the lessons he brought with him when founding ChurnZero, and the one thing he wish he knew before starting his career. ” As You Mon mentions, NRR is the metric SaaS leaders and investors can’t stop talking about. You Mon joined the CHURN.FM

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 5, 2021

Recent ecommerce growth has (re)introduced many SaaS founders and investors to the major differences associated with running a business that offers physical products. That podcast built a community, which helped Adam and his co-founder, Sandeep Kella , build a SaaS product.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 5, 2021

Recent ecommerce growth has (re)introduced many SaaS founders and investors to the major differences associated with running a business that offers physical products. That podcast built a community, which helped Adam and his co-founder, Sandeep Kella , build a SaaS product.

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SaaS Metrics

MAY 28, 2019

With their unique MLM pay plan, this is a very attractive form of entrepreneurship. Why is it so popular? Because you’re selling products, at your own flexible time, and with significant earning potential. Looking to get a start with MLM? Here’s a review of the highest paying, and best MLM companies for you to sell with: 1.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this episode, we discuss Thomas’s journey in entrepreneurship and how he helps companies on their way to acquisition. Thomas Smale, FE International.

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022? We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. What is a SaaS blog?

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Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Test new products, reach new user segments and acquire new customers I covered this topic in more details in “ A landscape of the major SaaS app stores ”, but I believe we’ve entered the “SaaS app stores” era. The rise of SaaS platforms impacts many aspects of building a SaaS company, one of which is the go-to-market strategy.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 25, 2023

For the latest installment of Creators Unlocked , we speak to Josh Ho, a SaaS founder and creator – the latter a term he doesn't instinctually use, though it definitely applies. “Entrepreneurship came before content creation. These are Josh’s keys to growing and maintaining a meaningful presence online.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 7, 2019

Autoklose Motivates We know that running a SaaS operation can sometimes feel like rolling a boulder up a hill, and the peak is nowhere in sight. Success through SaaS is out there, but if the path to get there was all smooth sailing, everyone'd be on it.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 17, 2018

To many (myself included), the world of SaaS sales can seem like a black box -- a world with different terminology and mode of operation. Marie: So, just before ChartMogul I had experience in different startups — the last one was also in SaaS. E: What made you target the SaaS industry? On starting out.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 26, 2015

FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT OR FREELANCE (Work remotely from anywhere you want) Are you enthusiastic about entrepreneurship, the hustle, startups, and excited about the prospect of diving deep into the world of sales, SaaS and building businesses?

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Chargify

JULY 25, 2019

B2B SaaS companies can continue to attract customers by focusing on these four key marketing strategies: Paid advertising. Which ads work best for SaaS companies? So they launched “A SaaS Startup’s Journey to $100,000 in Monthly Revenue” blog series with a simple premise: (image source). Content marketing. Owned events.

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SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2019

We buy SaaS companies. We buy SaaS companies anywhere from $2 million a year in ARR, all the way up to $400 million or so in ARR. We want to encourage entrepreneurship and we want to encourage people to really look at their companies. That’s why we raised this fund. It’s about a billion dollar fund.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2021

His first tech startup was called MyCase, a SaaS product that, “keeps all of your important case details — documents, contacts, calendars, emails, tasks, invoices — in a single, organized location.” The transition from criminal defense law to SaaS started as a “scratch your own itch” kind of thing.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you’re looking for the top SaaS blogs and influencers you’ve come to the right place. We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. He tweets at lot and also writes at Intercom’s blog.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

You might even consider writing a book, producing a podcast, or otherwise creating helpful content dedicated to entrepreneurship. Whatever you decide to do after your SaaS business is acquired, don’t get swept up in the excitement of the sale. What do investors look for in a SaaS startup?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

My blog attracts millions of viewers, and accolades have stacked up for entrepreneurship, marketing, and influence. Although Neil’s early experience was in entrepreneurship rather than marketing, he quickly learned the companies he founded had more success when he was the one running the marketing strategy.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 23, 2017

This follow-up is an attempt to give a more thorough look at the pros and cons of starting a SaaS startup in Berlin, drawing from the past three years of experience. Although SaaS still feels like a minority in Berlin, European events like SaaStock are driving growth and awareness. Berlin SaaS leaders weigh in.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

You might even consider writing a book, producing a podcast, or otherwise creating helpful content dedicated to entrepreneurship. Whatever you decide to do after your SaaS business is acquired, don’t get swept up in the excitement of the sale. What do investors look for in a SaaS startup?

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 25, 2019

[link] Two weeks ago we released the 2019 edition of our (in)famous SaaS Funding Napkin. In 2016 I thought about the question of what it takes to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016 and tried to give an answer that would fit on the proverbial back of a napkin. So especially the seed and Series B data needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 2, 2019

50 B2B software marketplaces listed & four observations 50 Shades of SaaS App Stores - Spreadsheet If you’d like to be notified of our next posts you can subscribe to our newsletter. As the SaaS industry is reaching maturity, the app store model is becoming increasingly important. a security audit). a security audit).

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