The Latest From SaaStr: When Does a Venture-Backed CEO Get Fired?

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By Jason Lemkin · Monday, April 5, 2021
 
     
 

Most SaaS CEOs don’t truly get fired.  As you can see here, the vast majority of public SaaS companies are in fact run by founder-CEOs. Boom! But as companies scale,...
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By Jason Lemkin · Monday, April 5, 2021
 
     
 

A few years back, a very wise VC asked me what I thought about a small but scrappy competitor in the space of my last company, Adobe Sign / EchoSign....
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By Jason Lemkin · Sunday, April 4, 2021
 
     
 

Q: What’s a healthy number of deals an Account Executive for a B2B SaaS company be working? How many is too many? Deal size is $4k/yr and sales cycle ~25...
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By Jason Lemkin · Sunday, April 4, 2021
 
     
 

I try to avoid raw pitches at all at this point. Send me the deck ahead of time, with as much detail as possible. I promise to read it carefully,...
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By Jason Lemkin · Saturday, April 3, 2021
 
     
 

There’s a metric the very top founders track quitely, but ruthlessly, that I find other founders either don’t track, or sort of hide from.  That’s % of marketshare.  And importantly,...
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By Jason Lemkin · Saturday, April 3, 2021
 
     
 

This week the SaaStr community has been catching up on a lot of sessions from the recent SaaStr Build digital event. Here are the Top 10 Most Watched SaaStr video...
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