The Latest From SaaStr: Dear SaaStr: How Do Startups with 3 Founders Structure Their Board of Directors?

	Dear SaaStr: How Do Startups with 3 Founders Structure Their Board of Directors?

	By Jason Lemkin · Tuesday, August 24, 2021

	Q: How do startups with 3 founders often structure the Board of Directors to prepare for a Series A financing? Most traditional VCs will prefer 2 “Common” seats after the... Continue Reading The post Dear SaaStr: How Do Startups with 3 Founders Structure Their Board of Directors? appeared first on SaaStr.

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	Get Funded or Just Learn: VC Day at SaaStr Annual 2021 (!!)

	By Amelia Ibarra · Monday, August 23, 2021

	Over the past 7+ years, the SaaS community has blown us away with your energy and passion, and have been the driving force in helping us expand from our humble... Continue Reading The post Get Funded or Just Learn: VC Day at SaaStr Annual 2021 (!!) appeared first on SaaStr.

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	5 Interesting Learnings from Blackline at $400,000,000 in ARR

	By Jason Lemkin · Monday, August 23, 2021

	Blackline has quietly been one of our favorite SaaS companies because they just never gave up.  A solo founder and even a solo parent, founder Therese Tucker wrote the initial... Continue Reading The post 5 Interesting Learnings from Blackline at $400,000,000 in ARR appeared first on SaaStr.

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	The Top 100 Private Cloud and SaaS Companies Now Have an Average Valuation of $5.2 Billion

	By Jason Lemkin · Sunday, August 22, 2021

	Recently Bessemer Venture Partners did another great deep give on Cloud metrics at the Cloud 100.  They’ll update their classic “State of the Cloud” on Sep 27-29 at SaaStr Annual... Continue Reading The post The Top 100 Private Cloud and SaaS Companies Now Have an Average Valuation of $5.2 Billion appeared first on SaaStr.

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	Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Square, Brex, Keith Rabois, Intercom, Talkdesk and More!!

	By Jason Lemkin · Sunday, August 22, 2021

	Let’s dig right in: #1. “How to Serve Multiple Customer Segments at the Same Time with Square’s Global Head of Sales”.  Square is a $120B market cap giant now serving... Continue Reading The post Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Square, Brex, Keith Rabois, Intercom, Talkdesk and More!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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	3 CEO Lessons in Scaling Enterprise CX with HubSpot’s CEO: SaaStr Podcast 475 and Video

	By Amelia Ibarra · Saturday, August 21, 2021

	The role of Chief Customer Officer only continues to rise and become an integral role for scaling in the Cloud. As Hubspot's CEO and first Chief Customer Officer, Yamini Rangan shares her top lessons for focusing on Enterprise customer experience and the different approaches required for the Enterprise customer journey. The post 3 CEO Lessons in Scaling Enterprise CX with HubSpot’s CEO: SaaStr Podcast 475 and Video appeared first on SaaStr.

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Adopt or Ignore? How to understand product usage By Amelia Ibarra

You can’t build a product that people love without understanding why they love it. Pendo gives you deep visibility into which features users adopt and which they ignore, and lets you guide them past friction points and toward value with targeted in-product messaging based on those insights. Try it for free. 

Infrastructure management can be tough. Here's how to simplify By Amelia Ibarra

Building and maintaining your own cloud platform infrastructure is a huge investment that can divert resources from your most important goal: solving customer challenges. With Platform.sh, the modern Platform-as-a-Service, you can deliver faster solutions and deploy new code in real time. Learn more here.