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. And SaaStr Europa brings 2,500+ SaaS execs, founders, and VCs together to Europe every summer. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area. SaaStr is turning 10!

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

This is the conversation I would have had, wished I could have had, with my younger SaaS CEO self — jason. Old Me, 2020 : It does feel that way. That is a force of nature in SaaS that is incredibly powerful. In 2020, that same business will be doing $300m ARR. Old Me, 2020 : There will be other options.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

What are the top 10 mistakes founders are still making today when hiring their VP of Sales? In this post, we’ll delve into the common pitfalls founders encounter when hiring a VP of Sales. 1: You Can’t Stay Founder-Led Sales Forever. . #1: 1: You Can’t Stay Founder-Led Sales Forever. This one is newer.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2019

With all that behind you … let me challenge you to 10 SaaS New Year’s Resolutions. Enough with the excuses for not having hired your real VP of Sales, or that VP of Engineering, or whatever. Hire a real recruiter. It’s really all about deal size in most SaaS companies, not raw per seat or per unit pricing.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2022

If there really is a slowdown (and I’m not sure will be in SaaS), folks will have to work harder. So I’m not yet convinced times are really tougher for SaaS companies. But buyers are still buying more SaaS than ever, far more than just last year and far, far more than even 2 years ago. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #????????????

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Incredo

APRIL 8, 2020

And SaaS companies aren’t exceptions. 2 Company: InternX , University Recruiting Platform InternX created a constantly updating list of hiring companies who are still looking for new employees during the coronavirus. They also decided to shift their focus to providing virtual fairs. . #5

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

At SaaStr Miami, former Founder’s Fund Partner and CRO of Brex Sam Blond — host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast — sat down with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin for a fireside chat about finding success as a SaaS company in 2024. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

— stacie frederick (@staciefrederick) September 29, 2020. Especially now that dozens of next-generation SaaS companies have IPO’d, you can start to see the turnover more viscerally than you can observe at quieter, privately-held start-ups. It takes a year to figure something out (sales, next-gen product, marketing, etc.),

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 10, 2020. You can also totally change your sales team. In a way, this is the same point as #1, almost — except you can recruit even more of the team here. The sales team can call back every single prospect, not just the good ones. How to Excel in SaaS Sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

The top SaaS companies grow faster than ever these days. There are roughly 2 types of start-up management teams. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. Veterans of the SaaS journey.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A VP of Sales and Success A VP of Sales and Marketing A VP of Sales and Anything Else. Is usually not really a VP of Sales. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 9, 2020. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds. Sales managers back when I never managed sales.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

In 2020-2021, many SaaS startups faced a unique challenge. Wiz, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies focused on security solutions, was one of them. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Some of the initial demand can be misunderstood.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: Then 2020 hit and forced a reset. When 2020 hit, the woe-is-me moment hit, too. There’s no choice.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve had the privilege to invest one way or another in about 35 SaaS companies, both as a VC and as angel. Let me make a list, of at least 10 Risks Different SaaS VCs Do and Do Not Like To Take. In SaaS, VCs seem to split two ways on the engineering team. VCs just vary here, and it’s changed since 2020 a lot.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2024

Remote launched in 2020, just as the pandemic hit, and it continues to be the fastest-growing portfolio company in Index Venture’s history. In 2020, they still didn’t have a finished product until May, when they onboarded their first customer. So that support person, Mafalda, started doing sales, too.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And what I’d like to talk to you about today is the SaaS Trust crisis we’re seeing.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

2020: $607m rev. One of the fastest-growing SaaS companies ever. We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. We do have a network of recruiters. We want to recruit, actually find people who aren’t really looking. UIPath History.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Now, in 2020, there really aren't any reasons to believe that will change.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We’re going to actually really dissect and go through a lot of the conventional wisdom of how to run a SaaS company and we’ll do that together. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. Tough Management Lesson #1. How you all doing?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Now, in 2020, there really aren't any reasons to believe that will change.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I’m excited to be here today to share a few stories from the SaaS world. So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

The SaaS business model has risen to popularity for many reasons – it’s fast-paced, creates residual revenue streams, and well, the multiples are strong. However, while many are flocking to reap the benefits of the SaaS model, truly understanding how it works sustaining success over time is not as easy as some make it look.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Our 2020 Community Leaders went through an extensive application and interview process, which means we are confident in their ability to provide members with the best advice possible. WHY SALES HACKER? WHY SALES HACKER? “ Mark Moshofsky.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. Even more important than it clearly was in 2020. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Dare I say SaaS. Try to avoid making decisions that are irreversible. Names stick.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. Software as a service (SaaS). The software as a service (SaaS) model means you pay to use the software. Most SaaS tools are cloud-based, meaning you can access it from a web browser anywhere. All of the recommendations on this list are SaaS payroll services.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

To say that 2020 has been unusual, and unprecedented, and momentous would all be understatements. Coincidentally, SaaStr Annual was slated to be February 5th, 2020 this year, where we were going to reveal that the cloud had passed the one trillion market cap mark, which was exactly one year after the SaaStr Annual 2019.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I’ve seen numerous startups try numerous ways to calculate their sales capacity. Such models are, in my humble opinion, dangerous because the combination of relatively small errors in ramping, sales productivity, and sales turnover (with associated ramp resets) can result in a relatively big mistake in setting an operating plan.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 8, 2021

Fundamental shifts in customer buying, big changes in workforce expectations, and rapid movement in the competitor landscape are what SaaS companies expect to have the most impact on business in 2021. These are some of the results of our most recent SaaS CFO Pulse Survey Q1, 2021, conducted in March.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Ari Levy | Sr.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Women Sales Pros. Women in Sales. Utah Women in Sales. Gals and SALS.

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