The Latest from SaaStr: SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000

THE LATEST FROM SAASTR

By Amelia Ibarra  · Thursday, July 14, 2022 | SaaStr Events

SaaStr is turning 10!

What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs.

GROWTH

By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, July 14, 2022 | Growth

So generally, as an investor, you don’t want to worry too much about TAM — Total Addressable Market.  At least, not after a certain point.  If a SaaS company can double or even triple at $1m ARR, it’s on to something good.  Something big.  Even if the initial market sweet spot is small.

But what I’ve learned over the past years is some founders get more ahead of a small-ish TAM than others.  And most of us start with small TAMs, even if in theory they can be large.

RECOMMENDED PODCAST

By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, July 14, 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 Michael Grinich, the CEO of WorkOS and his advice on how to get enterprise-ready.  In this episode, Michael Grinich discusses the lessons he learned the hard way at Nylas that led him to founding WorkOS. What it means to be enterprise ready and the process of building enterprise applications.

LEADERSHIP

By Amanda Beaty · Friday, July 15, 2022 | Early, Leadership

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Episode 573 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and we've also provided the full transcript.

SALES

By Jason Lemkin · Friday, July 15, 2022 | Blog Posts

So Hunter Walk of Homebrew aptly summarized what I’ve been trying to say less eloquently for about 2-3 months.

For 90% of startups, if you’re struggling right now … sure, blame the market.  But it’s not that, if your market is huge.  It’s You.

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