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

SaaStr

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!)

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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

SaaStr

You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share up front why your first CTO left. Seed is slowing down last, but it is slowing down. Give VCs enough time to see another card.

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10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors

SaaStr

Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. All-hands meetings, board meetings, whenever. Yes, you are the CEO. But everyone hears from you all the time. Bring Your Investors Together.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Braze at $260,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. 2016 customer cohort spends 3.2x And it has been. more today.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. (And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ).

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. And it was very successful.

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It’s Wise to Question the Big Assumption about Consumption Pricing

OPEXEngine

It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model. Or is it just today’s pricing flavor-of-the-month?

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