SaaStr
JUNE 11, 2025
Dear SaaStr: How Does a Founder Mindset Change As You Go From Startup to Scaleup? It’s no longer about gut instinct—it’s about understanding the levers of your business and optimizing them for growth. The founders who embrace them are the ones who successfully navigate the journey from startup to scale.
SaaStr
JANUARY 14, 2025
Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Startup Costs That You Didn’t Anticipate? And how much that dramatically drives up the burn rate and cost of doing business. A related post here: Even A Slightly Too High Burn Rate Can Get Out of Control The post Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Startup Costs That You Didn’t Anticipate?
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Dear SaaStr: If a startup is at $1.5M At $8m, $10m, the operational side of the business may be so complex a COO makes sense. The post Dear SaaStr: If a Startup at $1.5M ARR and is looking to hire an experienced COO how much equity should they give him/her? I think $1.5m ARR you should still be the COO. A bit earlier.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Offers workshops, networking, and investor matchmaking for startups and enterprises. Key points about SaaStr Annual : Focus on SaaS: Primarily focused on all aspects of SaaS business including sales, marketing, product development, and customer success. Held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area (usually in September).
Speaker: Brian Chang, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus & Scott Schwan, Chief Product Officer of A-LIGN
Scaling your SaaS business to the growth stage requires a strong product/market-fit, an optimized marketing funnel with repeatable sales processes, and a strategy for customer retention. But how do you truly get to that coveted phase of continued growth and profitability? Land marquee customers and build loyalty with them.
SaaStr
JUNE 30, 2025
Dear SaaStr: How Should Startup Founders Approach Early-Stage Hiring? You’ll stop settling for “good enough” and find the truly exceptional hires who can 10x your business. A big-name background doesn’t guarantee success in a startup environment. Here’s how you should approach it: Be relentless about recruiting. Relentless.
SaaStr
JANUARY 14, 2025
250k+ deals generally are part of business process change planned over an annual (or longer) process Still sometimes you do close them quicker. The post Lightspeed VC: 100% of Startups See $250k+ Deals Take Longer Than 6 Months to Close appeared first on SaaStr. 250k+ deals almost always start off with a pilot and evaluation process.
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Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue
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Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora
Regardless of whether you work for a startup or a larger business, its critical to understand what product meets the needs of your audience, what unique value proposition this product is bringing to the market, and when you are straying away from the identified PMF.
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