The Latest From SaaStr: Why M&A (Mergers & Acquisions) Is Weird and Unpredictable

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By Jason Lemkin · Friday, March 26, 2021
 
     
 

HubSpot raised 5 rounds of private funding, followed by an IPO. Not a single one of our pitches made any mention of an "exit strategy". There is a very simple...
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By Jason Lemkin · Friday, March 26, 2021
 
     
 

Q: What are some top hiring tips for early-stage startups? My top list: Hire an internal recruiter as soon as you are making 1 new hire a month. It’s worth...
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By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, March 25, 2021
 
     
 

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels.  Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably...
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By Jason Lemkin · Thursday, March 25, 2021
 
     
 

The other day, a sales leader working asked me how I got to be “so good at sales.” I’m not.  You might think so that after almost 3,000 answers on...
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