SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Venture Backed or Bootstrapped? Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. There’s a Third Way. 66% of You Are Starting the Year Burnt Out.

Scale 206

Scale AI Cloud Enterprise 206

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

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! Now a staple!)

Scale 282

Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 282

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round The Capital Everyone is Regretting Right Now is the “Free” Capital What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product? Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

Generative AI 148

Generative AI AI Pricing SaaS 148

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Think Twice The Unicorn Bar Today: Better than PagerDuty, JFrog, RingCentral, and More Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund  2. Is That a Good Thing?

Startup 227

Startup Scaling Software SaaS 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Simple Reason Startups That Just Raised $100s of Millions Are Doing Layoffs. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. ?. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. ? ? ?.

Sales Recruiting 232

Sales Recruiting Compensation Cloud Retention 232

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Maybe a Little Less Twitter and LinkedIn, And a Little More SEO and List Building. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond. ?. Dear SaaStr: How Do I Develop Inbound Leads in a New Category?

Scale 261

Scale Development Scaling Sales 261

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: SaaS Multiples Are Down 75% From a Year Ago. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. ? Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

Sales Recruiting 279

Sales Recruiting CTO Compensation Software Review 279

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. ?. When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit.

Sales Recruiting 227

Sales Recruiting AWS Compensation Enterprise 227

SaaStr

JULY 23, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Cold Hard Truths About SaaS in 2023 with Jason Lemkin The Cold Hard Truths About SaaS in 2023 with Jason Lemkin Part 2 Want To Steal a Customer from the Competition? Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

Retention 215

Retention Revenue SaaS Customer Success 215

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5 Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5

B2B 209

B2B Startup Retention Software 209

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How to Ensure Your First 2 Sales Reps Actually Work Out (Updated). Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond. ? ?. The Different Flavors of Risk Early Stage VCs Take.

Sales Hiring 248

Sales Hiring Startup Sales Marketing 248

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Dear SaaStr: Is It OK to Fly First Class to Close A Big 7 Figure Deal? A Top Unforced Error: Alienating Your Investors Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing.

Sales Recruiting 198

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 198

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 93% of You Say Competitors Lie To Close Deals. You Gotta Do The Work Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund  4. You’ve Gotta At Least Get Good at Counter-FUD.

Startup 193

Startup Pricing Revenue SaaS 193

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Salesforce Ventures: Only 150 Private SaaS Companies Have Hit $100,000,000 in ARR Want Happy Customers? Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

Scale 209

Scale Venture Capital Startup Retention 209

SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond.  . When Everyone Else Has Gone Home. Coupa, Marketo, And the Great Coming Rebound in SaaS.

Scale 201

Scale Venture Capital SMB Scaling 201

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. Billion in ARR G2: 49% of Buyers Are Increasing Spend, But 47% Are Going Less Than Annual The Cold Hard Truths About SaaS in 2023 with Jason Lemkin Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

Startup 161

Startup Retention Software Strategy 161

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Where Customer Success Reports To Typically, Who Really Owns Renewals, And More from ChurnZero. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond. ? ?. The 3 Types of VC Bridge Rounds: 0x, 1x and 10x.

Scale 201

Scale Customer Success Scaling Marketing 201

SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 2022: A Cr*p Year for SaaS IPOs. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond.               . But a Pretty Good Year for M&A. Carta: Layoffs Are At Recent Highs.

VP of Engineering 189

VP of Engineering Scale Mobile Scaling 189

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Coupa, Marketo, And the Great Coming Rebound in SaaS. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond.  . Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin. .

Scale 139

Scale Venture Capital SMB Forecasting 139

Predictable Revenue

MARCH 27, 2024

The journey of Trellus, as shared by its founders Dom and Ajinkya on the Predictable Revenue podcast, hosted by Collin Stewart. The post Trellus.ai’s Journey to PMF appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

Revenue 130

Revenue Development Sales 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Salesforce: “Things Are Too Unpredictable to Provide a Forecast”. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin.  . How tough are things out there? It really varies.

Scale 188

Scale Venture Capital Sales Forecasting 188

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Exhibiting at Events is Expensive. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 631: What Is Going On In Venture Capital in 2023 with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin and 20VC Host Harry Stebbings    4. Very Expensive. But Software?

Sales Recruiting 130

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Venture Capital Sales 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Spotify has rolled out its latest metrics on the top podcasts and we’re pleased to note The Official SaaStr Podcast is in the Top 1% of most. Our podcast is our quiet but great asset. Take a listen to our top pods of the week here: Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond. ?.

Scale 236

Scale Scaling Metrics SaaS 236

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Haven’t you listened to the latest podcast episode? Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Why we love it: Each B2B sales article, podcast, webinar, and discussion is designed to support and elevate the sales profession. This is because HubSpot covers all parts of a GTM revenue org in their blog.

Sales 79

Sales Technical Review Outbound Sales Team Interviewing 79

Payrix

APRIL 24, 2024

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. Join us next time on the PayFAQ: Embedded Payments podcast to continue the ever-evolving Embedded Payments and Finance conversation. Did you miss Parts 1-3?

Payments 147

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2024

The website is on (a beefed up instance of) WordPress , Circle is what’s powering our online community, we recently switched to Docusaurus to host our documentation, and use Transistor.fm for our podcast. We’re in the process of onboarding Vitally , specifically to help us better support bigger, managed customers.

Marketing 208

Marketing ChatGPT Mobile Onboarding 208

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s pretty common for our team to run their own blog, we have several published authors on the team, and many of our engineers run apps that have nothing to do with their regular work. I learned how to edit a podcast with my side project and eventually it became useful in my everyday work as well. Gaining new skills.

Social Media 69

Social Media Construction Forecasting Subscription 69

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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Venture Capital SaaS Data Scale 52

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

We’ll host it dockside in the open air right at Tobacco Docks and kick-off Europa with bubbles and bar bites. To start, Sam Blond, former CRO at Brex and now Partner at Founders Fund will be hosting a live version of SaaStr CRO Confidential with Parker Conrad, CEO & Founder of Rippling.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Banking Benchmarks Scaling 217

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Owned media refers to content distributed through a brand’s channels , including self-hosted video, company blogs, and email campaigns. When the conference was successful, they expanded the concept across different channels, developing content, launching a podcast, and hosting live workshops and virtual events.

VP of Engineering 71

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS AI Search 71

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2022

in particular: 2018: Our emeritus podcast host and good friend Harry Stebbings then interviewed Mathilde on the story at 2018 Annual: . 2020: In 2020, when things were a bit locked down. Mathilde came back for a deep-dive with the COO and co-founder of OKTA, Frederic Kerrest: .

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Interviewing Scaling SaaS 233

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Check out four highlights from the conversation, and listen to the podcast for more tips on how you can leverage digital CS to drive value to your customers and scale your business. Health scoring: Don’t set it and forget it Customer health scoring is the foundation of a good digital CS program.

Customer Success 103

Customer Success Scale Systems Review Software Review 103

Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

His Simple Programmer blog, a place that’s already frequented by thousands of developers, is a mandatory bookmark. #2 Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. You can also find his detailed articles and guide on his blog – AddyOsmani.com. #4 4 Dan Abramov.

Development 130

Development Technical Advisors Web Development Web Developers 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A lot has changed since Harry Stebbings launched podcast #001 2016 with Tiago Paiva, CEO of now decacorn Talkdesk, but SaaStr is still on the same mission. The post The Top 25 SaaStr Podcasts of All Time!! With 500+ episodes and almost 5 years behind us, we thought this would be a fun time to share the Top 25 episodes of all time.

Scale 205

Scale Sales Hiring SMB Benchmarks 205

Neil Patel

MARCH 3, 2020

Podcasting. You’ve heard about it before and I bet you’ve even listened to a handful of podcasts. There are over 1 billion blogs and roughly 7 billion people in this world. That’s 1 blog for every 7 people…. On the other hand, there are roughly 700,000 podcasts. So, should you waste your time on podcasting?

Strategy 145

Strategy Advertising Content Marketing Revenue 145

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most marketing advice you hear today revolves around online media: how to make short, quippy social media posts or write great emails and blog posts that attract clients, for example. I help you get more visibility opportunities, such as speaking and podcast guesting, and I help you deliver talks that help you have a higher conversion rate.”

Scale 86

Scale Sales Funnel Development Social Media 86

Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Hosting CS webinars, teleconferences, and seminars. CS in Focus is a CS community for CS professionals hosted on Slack. Content is delivered through an online community platform, podcasts and weekly calls. They host a CSM Practice community on Facebook. The Customer Success Forum is a CS community hosted on LinkedIn.

Customer Success 115

Customer Success Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 115