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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

You have to understand how venture capital works. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks. You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. Hiring someone too junior.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital? And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. Then I was the CTO at another YC company, Standard Treasury, acquired by Silicon Valley Bank.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Emilie : The way I see it, the bar is higher because on the … because of education, there has been a metrics war. So what we see when our companies are pitching to investors is that you know what metrics investors will open the email. Everyone probably knows all the metrics that Jason talks about.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. contact-form-7]. Danielle Morril.