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Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin

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He is a three time successful founder, current Managing Director at SaaStr Fund, and CEO and founder of SaaStr, the largest community of SaaS founders, investors and executives in the cloud. The post Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin appeared first on SaaStr.

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3 Incredible SaaStr Sessions with Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Slack. And The End of One Era in SaaS.

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The first "rocketship" of SaaS 2.0. So Slack is ending a bit of an era at $2B+ ARR, having been the fastest growing SaaS startup of its generation, rocketing to an incredible IPO, and then an epic acquisition by Salesforce in 2021 for $27 Billion! And The End of One Era in SaaS. The first IPO of its generation.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Worst Realities of Being An Entrepreneur?

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The worst reality, which is also part of what makes entrepreneurship so visceral — is the true feeling of Failing With 100% Responsibility. It often doesn’t leave you until $20m, $30m ARR, or sometimes much later, even in SaaS. Dear SaaStr: What Are The Worst Realities of Being An Entrepreneur?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Domo at $320,000,000 in ARR

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So Domo is an interesting case study on SaaS entrepreneurship. Founder Josh James had one of the earliest $1B+ exits in SaaS when Adobe bought his first start-up, Omniture, for $1.8 After decades running SaaS companies, it was time for a break in 2022, and Josh eventually stepped down as CEO. Billion way back in 2008.

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Uncharted and Electric: PayHawk’s CEO on Becoming Bulgaria’s First Unicorn

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SaaStr’s Poya Osgouei has a great Uncharted podcast that does a deeper dive with many SaaS execs. Up this week is Hristo Borisov, the CEO of Payhawk and his advice on focusing on what you’re good at on both an individual as well as business level resonated a ton.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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These 18 women are powerful, relentless and are all making SaaS and tech in general a better place. They have impressive professional achievements, all the way from founding companies through to running international operations across continents all the way to funding the SaaS companies of the future. They are stars in tech in Asia.

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The Top 50 SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020

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What is the next big trend in SaaS (software as a service)? What will SaaS companies look like in the future? Could you talk about your experience with the downside of entrepreneurship or startups? never talk about the dark side of entrepreneurship? Why did Microsoft buy Wunderlist and destroy it? What should I do?