SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 2022: A Cr*p Year for SaaS IPOs. But a Pretty Good Year for M&A. Carta: Layoffs Are At Recent Highs. The #1 Reason CMOs Fail.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. SaaStr 667: The 2023 Mid-Year State of the Markets: Why Efficient Growth is Key with SaaStr CEO & Founder Jason Lemkin   3. Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder 2.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Broken State of SaaS Sales Rep Comp. What Add-Ons You Can — And Can’t — Charge For. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: One Simple Trick to Make Your SDRs Perform Better. 5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $2B in ARR. Cloud Stocks May Be Down.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. SaaStr 626: 10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift Co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres  2. 5 Signs You Need to Hire a Product Marketing Manager — Yesterday!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. 5 Interesting Learnings from SentinelOne at $500,000,000 in ARR Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Capital Efficiency is Back in Fashion. 5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2 Billion in ARR. But … You Still Gotta Grow.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Your Sales Efficiency Will Probably Plummet Toward $10m ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from CS Disco at $120,000,000 in ARR.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Product manager blogs offer practical advice and help you expand your product management knowledge. Our favorite product management blogs.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Average SaaS Leader Grows 54% … At $1 Billion in ARR. 9 Things Your New Head of Product Should Do in Their First 30 Days.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The 10 Keys to A Successful Board Meeting: How to Make Them Great and Not Something Everyone Dreads from Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Partners.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: CB Insights: Yes, Venture is Down. 5 Interesting Learnings from Figma at $300,000,000+ in ARR. Freemium is Back! Freemium is Back!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

There’s more sales content than ever before – how do you sort through the noise? Since we deal with sales content on the daily, we thought we’d save you some time. Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Content and company culture. Haven’t you listened to the latest podcast episode?

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2021

The idea was to take some of the classic SaaStr lessons, update the content, add great videos from the CEOs of Zoom, Slack, Atlassian, and more … and perhaps, by doing so, expand the community a bit. What have we learned? People learn in different ways. So no profound learnings. Some love our podcast.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s time for our annual round-up of your favorite SaaStr content! SaaStr 526: Lessons Learned Building a $2 billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem. SaaStr 516: Lessons Learned in Scaling with Canva’s CMO Zach Kitschke and SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 7, 2023

years into my time at Buffer, I realized I was about to hit 100 articles written for the Buffer blog. I’ve documented some background about my time at Buffer, my writing process (which took longer than expected for something that’s part of my daily routine), and some of my advice for current and aspiring content writers.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2023

So let’s jump into part two of Nick’s ten mistakes and lessons learned over the years. The Lesson: End every relationship in a human-first way. Instead, recognize it’s likely a systemic issue and have a retro-meeting to learn rather than to finger-point. Don’t burn bridges. Create nice offboarding materials.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We are proud of the content we have produced throughout the year. In case you’ve missed something, here’s a list of the top 10 blog posts from 2018 that you don’t want to miss as you gear up for 2019. Find the best business model for your product or service with this helpful blog post. Are you B2B or B2C? Read More. Read More.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It’s completely free to sign up and tune into this incredible lineup of content, including the CEO of 1Passowrd, COO of Atlassian, CPO of Samsara, CMO of Digital Ocean, and many more. Being a product leader is different at every company, and learning to lead at every company can widely vary. Marketing to Developers.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. Lesson 1: Create a clear product differentiation strategy. Product differentiation strategy entails capitalizing on your company’s uniqueness to attain a competitive advantage in a saturated market.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

We’ve done a ton of this content over the years, but never on a consistent basis. Now Andy Byrne, CEO at Clari, adds his learnings! They’re also invaluable learning opportunities. I hope sharing my top ten list helps my fellow entrepreneurs sidestep a few of these — and gives you more time to go make, and learn from, your own!

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Technical Review Leadership Company Culture Startup 187

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2021

In early 2020 we launched SaaStr University to update and organize some of our top content into stage-segmented lessons: Idea (first 10 customers). It’s still a work in progress, but as part of it, we’ve had some great discussions in our feed on how to build great sales, marketing and CS teams. Traction (0.1m

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2022

With 8 stages at SaaStr Annual Sept 13-15, you’ll never lack for content! Amidst the volatility of today’s economic climate and market, GTM leaders need to be especially savvy when it comes to their company growth strategies and earning their customers’ love. We’re bringing back the hugely popular Masterclasses on Tuesday.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

We launched SaaStrUniversity.com over the holidays and have already crossed 3,000 founders, CEOs, and SaaS execs learning on the platform. About 60% of the folks on SaaStrU are founders, the rest are a mix of sales, marketing, and product professionals. SaaStrU currently consists of 300 lessons spread across 3 courses.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s completely free to sign up and tune into this incredible lineup of content, including the CPO of Samsara, CPO of Notion, CMOs of Digital Ocean and Automattic, and much more! Do you keep hearing that the market is getting too saturated? Marketing to Developers. Building a Marketer’s Playbook.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2022

Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud shares how a pivot from targeting B2C creators to the B2B market put the company on the path to success. Read on for advice and lessons Vimeo learned along the way. Further, the content upload to Vimeo grew shorter. Lessons Learned During a Business Pivot. Yet the reward may be worth it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2021

Missed some of the top SaaStr content of the past few months? “Building Your Company’s Retention Strategy & Measurement with MongoDB” A session you have have missed with MongoDB’s director of retention marketing. #3. Learn here how they got there. #5. Learn how they do it at scale. #7.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 23, 2020

But how do you market it? Sure you can use tools like Ubersuggest to help you out, but what do you do if you need step-by-step instructions from the very beginning… especially if you have little-to-no marketing experience? Over the next 4 weeks, I am going to teach you how to market an e-commerce website.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

UiPath, Braze, Rippling, Loom & Zapier: Don’t Miss Hero SaaS Companies on Tuesday Doors open bright and early at 8AM Monday with core content starting at 9AM and going all day long. Mobile marketing as we know it today was still in its infancy. There will be too much great content, so pace yourself.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

Some of the top learnings from our conversations in 2020 were a testament to the agile nature of start-up founders and operators. So were we, so we dug into the data and compiled a list of our top 25 episodes from 2020 for your listening (and learning) pleasure. Interested in what our most popular episodes were last year?

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Yet here I am, with a (small) content marketing agency, selling services to companies, including series A startups and tech enterprises, and making a six-figure dollar income each year.  I also kept writing, mostly for affiliate marketing agencies, as a side hustle. This felt like a missed opportunity.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I settled on copywriting because I had a knack for writing and a bit of experience from keeping a lifestyle blog and writing book reviews. I took courses, paid for coaching and mentorship lessons, and practiced. To attract clients, I had to post on socials regularly, sharing my learnings and knowledge.

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Social Media Branding Management Entrepreneurship 105

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2019, the founding team at Storyblok set out to create a content marketing solution that worked for everyone—developers and marketers alike. Outbound: including Account Based Marketing (ABM). For instance, Storyblok’s first marketing hire was Thomas Peham. Partner: investing in different partnership channels.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

2,500 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders and VCs will join us for 2 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Barcelona. The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships and exchange strategies. with Maropost’s CEO Ross Andrew Paquette.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2021

From AWS to Vimeo: this year’s speaker lineup is packed with incredible speakers and content. There’s content that everyone on your team can learn from. A Marketer’s Playbook for Building a Sustainable Growth Strategy with Datadog’s CMO Alex Rosemblat. Check out the full detailed agenda here.

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