SaaStr

MAY 1, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: It’s Basically a Quiet Series A, Series B, C and D Crunch Now. SaaStr 547: The Secrets to Going Big, Going Multi-Product and Going Public with Amplitude CEO Spenser Skates, Part 2. Top Videos This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR 5 Interesting Learnings from Asana at $600,000,000 in ARR Is the Employer-Employee Social Contract in Tech … Now Broken? Want to Understand SaaS? appeared first on SaaStr.

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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. Cooley: Series D Deals Dropped 78% in Just Q3 Alone. SaaStr 616: Secrets to SMB at Scale with Hubspot CEO Yamini Rangan and SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin. .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing. SaaStr 583: Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin. SaaStr 581: The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Is the Employer-Employee Social Contract in Tech … Now Broken? My Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve Top Podcasts This Week: 1. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Many startups crash and burn when they hit the Series A crunch — that do-or-die time where many seem to lose their footing even if they’ve been successful up to that point. If you’re standing at the precipice of Series A, it takes more than having a great idea or being an awesome founder to make it. Have they done it before?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

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. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2022

Here are our Top 25 Videos of All Time! #25. 3 Digital Insights to Win & Retain Loyal Customers of All Sizes with Fullstory Founder and CEO Scott Voigt + CMO Kirsten Newbold-Knipp. #24. The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks, Co-founder and General Partner at Craft Ventures. #22. So much to celebrate!

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2022

Up today: Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret. This interview with CNBC’s Ari Levy took place in February 2019, shortly after Plaid raised a Series C round at a $2.7B In 2021, Plaid raised $425 million in Series D funding that boosted the company to decacorn status at a $13.4 billion valuation. The Early Days.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2022

You can see before 2020, our views were fairly modest: So what are the very top most viewed, most popular videos of all time? A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator’s CEO Michael Seibel. How Leveraging Partnerships Can 2x Your Growth with Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre. We’re all watching more YouTube now!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Top 5 Videos: #1. “The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks, Co-founder and General Partner at Craft Ventures” The post Top 10 SaaStr Posts and Videos of the Week With Bessemer, PagerDuty, Salesforce, Shopify and More!! (Yes, That’s a Wide Range). 6 Top Sessions On Scaling From SaaStr Annual 2021.

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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”. A great and sobering look at where Series A and later rounds are. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin.  . Top Videos This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

“The Reason Behind the Brex Billboards in SF with CEO at Brex” A short take on how Brex thinks about awareness and brand marketing. #3 “Growing & Scaling SaaS Businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR with Intercom CEO Karen Peacock” Karen will be back at 2021 SaaStr Annual Sep 27-29 to update this classic talk! .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2023

SaaS Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin and Atrium Founder and CRO Pete Kazanjy sit down to discuss the state of investing in 2023 and what founders should keep in mind for the year ahead. . After building a successful portfolio, Lemkin struck out on his own and is the Managing Director of SaaStr Fund and the CEO of SaaStr. The Backstory.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 4, 2024

TikTok has become the go-to platform for brands looking to let loose and connect with their audience in an authentic and fun way. From jumping on meme bandwagons to pulling back the curtain on company culture, TikTok offers endless opportunities for creative expression. of its US user base to be exact.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2020

As it looks like Shelter may last even longer, our YouTube videos continue to grow much faster than before. So what are SaaStr folks watching most this week (not including top videos also watched last week)? Worth a watch especially for earlier-stage CEOs and founders. #2: Let’s take a look! #1:

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 13, 2021

Recently, Jim Benton joined us for Redpoint Office Hours to share insights from his vantage point as CEO of Chorus.ai Natalie, Chorus' VP of Marketing, whispered in my ear before the session that I should ask Jim about Ted Lasso, the television series. Jim started as CEO just as shelter-in-place started.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

“A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator” A SaaStr classic with the CEO of Ycombinator. #2. 2. “Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR … And Beyond!” ” A great deep-dive with Hubspot’s CEO from just the other day. #3. What should you catch up on?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2022

Payhawk’s CEO, Hristo Borisov, and VP of Marketing, Désirée Schildt, have cracked the code. They outline how to go from series A to unicorn in less than 12 months. . How to get to series A. You have the vision, but you need to ?communicate Hire a strong team. Hire senior positions first. Have a proper business structure.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2022

In case you got busy and couldn’t read and watch everything SaaStr this past week :), here are the most popular posts and videos. The 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds with Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator. 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. The math on why here. #5.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Founder and Managing Partner at Cowboy Ventures, Aileen Lee, discusses the state of the VC market in 2022 with Founder and CEO of SaaStr Jason Lemkin—the change in VC activities and seed deals, the importance of the board in the success of a startup, profitability and much more. This has caused VC investors to be increasingly wary.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2023

In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond wraps up the founder-led sales series with one of the most accomplished sales leaders in the world, Ben Cassidy. Cassidy was Blond’s VP of Sales at Echosign and, before that, was one of the first sales leaders at LinkedIn. Cassidy is now a co-founder at CoSell, a.k.a. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2021

And with 20+ sessions from the recent SaaStr Enterprise to dig into alone, as well as an incredible new session with the CEO of Klaviyo. The 10 most watched videos of the week. 7. “How the Future of Workplace Learning Will Increase Employee Productivity by 50% with Spekit’s CEO. OK — now on to The Top 10.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

This week Chorus announced its Series C round for $45 million, which was led by Georgian Partners. Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Tom Taulli. Behind the Round with SaaStr: Chorus.ai

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Most training for CEOs and execs is of the “throw them in the deep end of the pool and see if they float” variety. So, many founders and CEOs muddle along with a series of merely good-enough board meetings, and not good ones. I’ve written a lot about startups, boards, and CEOs. Thanks CJ for having me.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

billion after raising $400 million in Series C funding. In this SaaStr Europa 2022 session, Matt Jacobson, General Partner at ICONIQ Growth, interviews Miro’s Founder & CEO, Andrey Khusid, to get insight into how he was able to grow the company so successfully. User Experience and Building a Durable Business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2020

I’m kicking off a new series at SaaStr on the #1 question everyone asks me, and I think is asking: “What Are You Seeing?” ” I’m going to talk to a bunch of Cloud CEOs in the $2m-$20m ARR range, to really hear what they are doing, how they are changing, what they are learning. What they are seeing.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

From sales enablement tools to ABM, video, and consulting services and solutions, SalesLoft and their partners help their customers transform their digital sales organizations. Partner ecosystems are having incredible growth as brands seek to compete for differentiation and market share,” added Jason Lemkin, SaaStr’s CEO & Founder.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2023

In an eye-opening workshop, WorkRamp CEO Ted Blosser shares how to overcome setbacks, trust your customers, and defy traditional wisdom to carve out a path to growth. WorkRamp was plagued with a series of hurdles during these early years, including: Rejections from investors. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hook Founder & CEO Firaas Rashid moderated the session. SaaS businesses are discovering that customers choose and recommend them based not on flashy marketing or super fancy product features but on the experience of engaging with the company and the value it delivers. What is customer success, and how has it evolved?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the first session of the eye-opening CRO Confidential series, SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin interviews Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond about the current economic climate. Conversations about the state of the SaaS market in 2022 are everywhere, and it can seem overwhelming for entrepreneurs and business leaders to make sense of everything.

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Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

London-based Edge Investments supported the round, led by The New York Times Company LONDON—December 1, 2020— Trint , the leading speech-to-text platform for content creation, today announced the close of its Series A Acceleration round with an investment of £5M (~$6.7M). Individual investors were also part of the round.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Welcome to Part Two of SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin’s Ask Me Anything session at this year’s SaaStr Annual. Jason re-takes the stage in Part 2 of the series to answer questions about the right time is to invest in a new product line, building vertical vs. horizontal, multiples in 2024, and much more. The short answer?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2021

On her very first day as Director of Content at 360Learning, she starred as the lead of Onboarding Joei, an original, unscripted docu-series that followed her onboarding experience during her first 90 days. Blog articles, podcasts, ebooks, and videos have been the bread and butter for content marketers for a long time now.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2023

In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, continues a mini-series on founder-led sales with Colin Zima, founder and CEO of Omni. As a second-time founder, Zima can pick up the phone and call the CEO of a business and tell them to try out a product. Give it a look!”

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Brian Murray (Partner at Craft Ventures & CEO of Cabal) and I were brainstorming how we could fix this referral logjam. A podcast series? Referrals are the lifeblood of sales. They convert better than any other sales channel and afford a more natural and authentic sales process. 84% of all buying decisions start with a referral.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2019

As part of our new 5 Interesting Learnings series, here are a few: Freemium continues to scale for Slack, but now more as a lead gen tool. You can see our fun video with Stewart Butterfield from SaaStr Annual 2015 where he said they’d never have a direct sales force. A continued them of our 5 Interesting Learnings Series.

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