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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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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! It was a hit!

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

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You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. I’ve written this at least 80 times since 2012, but I’ll say it again because it’s true.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Lisa Zhang. Kandy Yeung.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?