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Dear SaaStr: Is There Any Downside In Asking a Potential Investor ...
Dear SaaStr: Is There Any Downside In Asking a Potential Investor for a Higher Valuation? You'd hope not. Certainly not, when you're in control, have.
Dear SaaStr: What's Hard About Being a CEO?
Dear SaaStr: What's Hard About Being a CEO? A few learnings: The pressure ebbs and flows, but it never ends. Once you ship, you're always under the gun.
Dear SaaStr: When Will VCs Push You To Bring On an Outside ...
Dear SaaStr: When Will VCs Push You To Bring On an Outside / Professional CEO? I think 99% of successful VCs, especially "traditional", experience.
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Dear SaaStr: How Can I Get The Attention of Software VCs?
Dear SaaStr: How Can I Get The Attention of Software VCs? #1: Get Out There: Get in TechCrunch. Get on Hackernews. Get on stage at any B tier or A tier.
Dear SaaStr: Why Are Buyers Not Ready to Spend Big on ...
Dear SaaStr: Why Are Buyers Not Ready to Spend Big on Acquisitions as Readily Today as in the Past? In tech at least, there are two big issues: #1.
Dear SaaStr: Is Launching Your SaaS Product Too Early Really A ...
Dear SaaStr: Is Launching Your SaaS Product Too Early Really A Big Issue? This is a tough one. Wait too long, you run out of time and money in many cases.
Dear SaaStr: Why did Jason M. Lemkin Change his Point of View on ...
I still believe a CEO should “do it all” in terms of building a decent management team first before hiring a COO.
Dear SaaStr: Does a Big Exit Make You Happy?
Category 1: Still Building Stuff. For Whatever Reason. In their DNA. This is who they are. Oftentimes, they aren't really happy. But they thrive here. Elon Musk ...
Dear SaaStr: For High Dollar Vertical SaaS, Does The First VP of ...
#1. Most complex vertical SaaS start-ups I've worked with haven't made their first 1-2 sales reps successful unless they have domain expertise.
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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Know If It's The Right Time to Sell My ...
First off, the axiom that companies are bought, not sold, is mostly right. 95 times out of 100, you can't wake up some morning and just go sell your start-up.
In SaaS, The CEO Never Gets to Step Away From Sales
https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1828804129419862308?s=61&t=ZWlHxY1IQMwjLHbJx9Z4OA Dear SaaStr: When Should The CEO Step Away From Sales? Never.
Dear SaaStr: I Don't Really Feel Confident Enough to Call Myself ...
Dear SaaStr: As a startup CEO, I don't feel confident to call myself CEO even though our company makes positive revenue and goes in the right direction,
Dear SaaStr: Do CEOs of Successful SaaS Startups Ever Have Any ...
Dear SaaStr: Do CEOs of Successful SaaS Startups Ever Have Any Free/Down Time? As CEO I've had as much free / down time as any exec on my team, possibly.
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Dear SaaStr: I Just Got My First SaaS Job 6 Months Ago and Now I Want to ... Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales? Feb 20 ...
Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I ...
Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I Threaten To Quit If It Doesn't Get Better? If you're unhappy at work, should you threaten.
Dear SaaStr: How Can an Early Stage SaaS Startup Get its First 1-3 ...
The predicate step is your product has to do >one< reasonably important thing that is 10x better than the “enterprise”-proven solutions already out there. So ...
Dear SaaStr: How Many Options Should I Give to the First Non ...
What you should do is give them say 3x their forgone salary in stock — 3x to account for risk. So let's say you hire a seasoned engineer in the Bay Area and her ...
Dear SaaStr: How Do You Know if a Potential Acquirer is Really ...
Acquisitions don't happen out of the blue. They almost always take time. In my first start-up as a co-founder, it was a multi-year process. At my second, it was ...