SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa. Straight from a SaaS CCO with Yellow.ai’s CCO with Shekar Murthy, Chief Customer Officer at Yellow.ai

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2022

OpenPhone and AgentSync are two SaaS businesses with very different growth strategies, but the same ultimate goal: to continue selling while simultaneously problem-solving for current customers. tip their toes in new growth strategies. That’s why the two brands are heavily investing in sales and customer success teams as they ?tip

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Wondering how your SaaS business got slapped with a multi-million dollar sales tax bill from one or multiple states? Probably because you, like so many other SaaS companies out there, didn’t even know you had to collect and remit sales tax. Sales tax laws across the United States are pretty inconsistent, especially for SaaS solutions.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

It’s a time when SaaS and Cloud spend are also at record highs , and many Cloud leaders are still growing at strong rates … yet many startups have stopped growing at all. What public (and private) SaaS companies are valued at as a multiple of revenue. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When we talk about next-gen SaaS products, Product-Led Growth (PLG) and bottom-up terms come to mind. Aviad Mizrachi, co-founder and CTO at Frontegg and Dotan Horovits, Technology Evangelist at Logz.io, converged to discuss the crucial SaaS Observability aspect. What is SaaS Observability? What is SaaS Observability?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. and onboarding new customers. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…).

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Frontegg

JANUARY 27, 2022

These “software hooks” are helping SaaS companies make the shift towards Product-Led Growth by giving users more in-app freedom and reducing the need for cumbersome support emails or calls. One such example is automatically shooting up an onboarding video for new customers. The SaaS space has become very dynamic.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Our August SaaS conversation focused on high performance in R&D, with OPEXEngine CEO and Founder Lauren Kelley hosting Bain Expert Partner Rob Levy for an energizing discussion on this critical topic. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post will walk you through what SaaS companies need to know about sales tax compliance, how to know when and from which customers you should collect sales tax, and best of all, how to automate sales tax so you can check “Do something about sales tax” off your to-do list once and for all. Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies?

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

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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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

Ok we’ve now got the final speaker list locked down for 2023 SaaStr Europa in LONDON on 6-7 June: CEOs, CROs and CXOS : Edith Harbaugh, Executive Chair & Co-founder @ LaunchDarkly Nowi Kallen, Managing Director @ Salesforce Ventures Spencer Kimball, CEO @ Cockroach Labs Joe Thomas, Co-founder and CEO @ Loom Sterling Snow, Former CRO @ Divvy (..)

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

“Mastermind Masterclass: The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks” David Sacks, founder of Craft Ventures and Yammer, and ex-COO, leads us on a new Mastermind class on opening day. #2. The Top 10 will change as more folks register, but here’s the leaderboard for now: #1.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2021

There’s so much incredible new content on the SaaStr YouTube Channel and podcast — check it all out here ! And with 20+ sessions from the recent SaaStr Enterprise to dig into alone, as well as an incredible new session with the CEO of Klaviyo. OK — now on to The Top 10. The 10 most watched videos of the week.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Jack Newton, co-founder & CEO of Clio, at the 1st PNC SaaS Founder Meetup in 2012 About three years ago we thought that it would be nice to organize a little meetup for the founders of our still quite young but growing SaaS portfolio. Here are some (visual) impressions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! We’re super excited to have partnered with Women in Revenue to bring a mini event-within-an-event for women leaders in SaaS and Cloud. We’ll have a packed half-day of sessions just with women leaders in Cloud and SaaS on Wednesday, March 11.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. The Secrets to Vertical Growth: What It Really Takes to Build a $1B+ SaaS Company. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2021

But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. Or sometimes they are great, but the team members are just not great enough for their new C-level roles (CEO, CTO, CMO, CSO, CBO, C?O).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals. . Accordingly, training programs to hone new skills should be introduced. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Who’s here on a CEO or more on a business hat SaaS?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There, Amplitude has become part of the core product stack for many SaaS and software leaders for product analytics. Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Presenting: the first pre-built suite of universal SaaS capabilities, enabling SaaS teams to focus on core features, shorten time-to-market and drive user adoption. Frontegg liberates dev teams from the burden of building SaaS capabilities that have become de-facto standards in the landscape of modern SaaS products.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

In my guest post on CustomerThink I talked about the benefits of community building and how it helps SaaS companies get a few steps ahead of their competition. To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community? . We have received over 2.6k

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

What does it mean to make your product the star in your SaaS growth strategy? Ciara Peter (Gainsight VP of Product & Design) and Mickey Alon (CTO & Founder of Gainsight PX) share their practical tips for product leaders looking to achieve business growth. Every year, millions of new products are created and launched.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2022

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. You may be asked to own new stuff beyond just what your company / app does. Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants? It’s a lot of change. The pressure is off.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2022

Ok we’re all gearing up for 2022 SaaStr Europa in Barcelona — join us there at the beach with 2,500 of your SaaS BFFs on June 7-8! Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. But then after that it’s a spring to the 8th ever SaaStr Annual! Michelle Longmire, CEO @ Medable.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. The SaaS operating model requires execution across functional activities.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2019

We passed a new milestone on Quora — crossing 50,000,000 total views. What makes a bad CTO? What happens to the clients of a mission-critical, B2B enterprise SaaS startup when it fails? Do all SaaS companies in the USA put late payment fees in their contract? What was the biggest ousting of a CEO that ever occurred?

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2019

In SaaS, if we look at the top SaaS companies that have IPO’d, the vast majority still seem to have the founder CEO as CEO. And the few that don’t generally had a founder that decided to bring someone else in themselves (often a CTO type): Salesforce: Yes. New Relic: Yes. The vast majority. Atlassian: Yes. Dropbox: Yes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Because as a SaaS founder especially, it can be hard to know. ” — Jason Riedel, founder/CTO of Aspireship. “When on New Year’s Eve, customers kept sending us signed contracts.” I recently asked on Twitter when folks knew their startup had something … great. 20% conversion.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit. Want to see more content like this session?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

What makes a bad CTO? Is SaaS Sales really that lucrative? As the CEO of a startup, what should I tell my employees who keep asking for raises after they realized we just raised a new round of funding? (74k views). What were the signs you missed before you lost a major customer? (A A classic ) (72k views). 52k views).

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Ever have one of those days where as soon as you send an email, you immediately get a new one? Eric Muntz , CTO at Mailchimp. “I Note: These quotes came from my In Case(y) You Missed It series , where I talk to the most interesting humans in SaaS. Celery, Sweat and Sleep—SaaS Execs on Maintaining the Energy to Lead.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? But unlike most on-premise software companies in the 2000s, the SaaS leaders of today aren’t doomed. My conclusion was that Generative AI is an asteroid impact event for B2B software, comparable to the launch of the iPhone or the Internet itself.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. Something new to boost your ACV and TCV. Double your pricing for new customer, on the largest deals. But these days … the best SaaS companies are growing faster than ever. Add a layer. At least on the big customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 10, 2018

We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year. Losing customers is so painful to a bootstrapped SaaS business, so keeping (and upgrading) current customers is hugely important to growth. Unique use cases. Feature flipping.

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