The Latest from SaaStr: How to Handle and Share Bad News

By Jason Lemkin · Saturday, June 4, 2022 | Leadership

The past 10+ years I’ve had a chance to observe a lot of SaaS founders, as an investor, as an advisor and more … and the vast majority I’ve worked with have in the end just killed it.  Gone on to bigger and better things.  Five of the first six became unicorns.  Two have sold at billion+ valuations.  Many are just getting going.

But … it’s never all roses.  We know this.  

And one thing I’ve observed is many founders and CEOs don’t handle bad news the right way.

Read the full article: How to Handle, and Share, Bad News

By Amelia Ibarra · Friday, June 3, 2022 | SaaStr Events

We’re so close now to the official start of SaaStr Europa 2022 on 7-8 June in Sunny Barcelona!

This is our ultimate guide for everyone attending, to make the most of this year’s Europa.

Read the full article: The Ultimate Guide to SaaStr Europa 2022 June 7-8

By Jason Lemkin · Friday, June 3, 2022 | Blog Posts

In the run-up to SaaStr Annual 2022 on September 13-15, we wanted to look back at some of the highest-rated SaaStr sessions of all time, since the first SaaStr Annual in 2015.

Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot co-founder and CTO, has given 2 amazing SaaStr talks and 1 amazing deep-dive so far.

Read the full article: A Look Back: 3 Amazing SaaStr Sessions with Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder and CTO of HubSpot

By Amanda Beaty · Friday, June 3, 2022 | Customer Success, Marketing

How do you build a flourishing community around your SaaS business? How can you get your audience excited enough to contribute, and how can they derive value from the community? Holly Firestone, Head of Community at Venafi, taps into her impressive experience in building communities to share the secret to success.

Read the full article: Enterprise Communities: The What, Who, Why, When & How with Venafi Head of Community Holly Firestone (Pod 560 + Video)

By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Blog Posts

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.

Read the full article: Uncharted and Electric: PayHawk’s CEO on Becoming Bulgaria’s First Unicorn

By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Blog Posts

A lot of folks are talking about how things were in ’08-’09 and even ’00-’01 these days.

I don’t think today is anything like those times. The amount of folks buying SaaS software is a force like we’ve never seen before, and even with some stock market drama, many top SaaS companies still trade at $4B, $10B, $20B or more just a decade after being founded.

Read the full article: What Really Happened to SaaS in the ’08-’09 Recession

By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Blog Posts

Almost all of us go through some tough times in SaaS. And other times that are not quite tough, but just … hard. It’s hard to be a founder, to be a CEO. It’s hard to grow, but not at a high rate.  It’s hard to be a VP of Sales and every month, every quarter, you have to do better than the last ones.

Sometimes, you might even think it makes sense to just quietly quit. Or retreat and give up on growth, And maybe it does.

Read the full article: Never Quit If

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